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I'm guessing that anyone complaining about the travel from Tulsa to Omaha, Fort Wayne, or Denver has never ridden in a bus to Hammond, Natchitoches, or Thibodeax, LA. For almost all sports in the Southland, ORU's travel was brutal (many locations farther then majority of SL schools, and impossible to fly to), the facilities were primitive, the fan support nominal, the hotel accommodations awful, and the towns are bereft of entertainment or cultural options. As a parent, I would MUCH prefer my son or daughter competing against Summit League schools in Summit League towns, rather than Southland schools/towns, for a variety of reasons.

"Blessed to receive my first D1 offer from Oral Roberts" - says every underage prospect from Oklahoma this summer (or at least it feels that way). If memory serves me correctly, a lot of times these kids are under the radar UNTIL they publicize their "first offer" from ORU, at which point they automatically get added to the watch list for every mid-major program in the Central time zone. Isn't the key to finding "diamonds in the rough" keeping their location secret until you're ready to pick them up?