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Just for fun, here's the 6-8 hour driving circle around the Bierman building. Assumed an average of 50 mph, which is a pretty typical standard for over the road travel.
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Just for fun, here's the 6-8 hour driving circle around the Bierman building. Assumed an average of 50 mph, which is a pretty typical standard for over the road travel.
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50 mph is a standard used in the transportation industry to account for stops, meals, etc.50 mph is low when factoring in interstate highway travel like it will be to many big cities. Bierman to KC, for example, is 6 hrs, 17 minutes according to Google Maps.
Thanks for doing this.
Is this 6 or 8?
Would love to see 8 hours at 60 mph.
What percentage of those MN players are walk ons?
This was 8 hours at 50 mph.
50 mph is a standard used in the transportation industry to account for stops, meals, etc.
Well I don't have a copy of Fleck's travel preferences so I had to start somewhere and working in transportation this is the figure that is most common. Of course it's not a strict radius, I didn't send this to the regents and say "This is how far Fleck can travel for recruits."I'm guessing Fleck wasn't using a transportation industry standard when putting together his 6-8 hour radius. It's not a strict radius, it's more of a loose one to give media/fans a general idea of the recruiting area.
Due to popular demand, here is 8 hours of travel at 60 mph.
The site I used to make these maps is https://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-can-i-travel.htm
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Just got on the google and found it, can't speak to its methodology.I question the veracity of this map. My hometown in SD is relatively close to the edge of this "circle," and I routinely drive that distance in 5 - 5.5 hours. When really pushing it (i.e., without the wife and kids in the car), I've made it in 4.5.
I would also add that you're doing something wrong if it takes you 8 hours to get just on the other side of Chicago. I occasionally visit my cousin in Rantoul, just outside Champaign (about 140 miles past Chicago) and that usually takes 8.5 - 9 hours.
I question the veracity of this map. My hometown in SD is relatively close to the edge of this "circle," and I routinely drive that distance in 5 - 5.5 hours. When really pushing it (i.e., without the wife and kids in the car), I've made it in 4.5.
I would also add that you're doing something wrong if it takes you 8 hours to get just on the other side of Chicago. I occasionally visit my cousin in Rantoul, just outside Champaign (about 140 miles past Chicago) and that usually takes 8.5 - 9 hours.
A few more interesting facts, using data from here: https://www.oir.umn.edu/student/enrollment_map/report
Of the undergrads at UMN-TC from Ohio, 8% are on the football team.
Of the undergrads at UMN-TC from Georgia, 21% are on the football team.
Of the undergrads at UMN-TC from Louisiana, 30% are on the football team.
Of the undergrads at UMN-TC from Kentucky, 40% are on the football team.
Of the undergrads at UMN-TC from Alabama, 57% are on the football team.
(this is all assuming any player who isn't a redshirt senior is an undergrad)
Obviously money is a huge concern for most out of state students but not many football players, but this is still surprising. Even though they're focusing on the 8 hour radius they still are able to pull in recruits from areas that the U doesn't really pull from.
Why is this surprising?
Minnesota isn't exactly considered an attractive place to most people outside of the upper midwest.
I would have thought that a lot of the recruits from the south would have stayed in the south. Minnesota isn't exactly considered an attractive place to most people outside of the upper midwest.
There's more talent in the south and only so many schools to play at. More talent from the south comes north than vice versa.
I guess I was more confused why you were shocked that a large percentage of the overall students at the U from those states are football players.
With the expense of out of state tuition and the high entrance requirements, not to mention the snow, it is not surprising that we don't too many students that have to pay their own way.
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Due to popular demand, here is 8 hours of travel at 60 mph.
The site I used to make these maps is https://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-can-i-travel.htm
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