True but if you look at where the stars of those teams came from, most were local or grew up in sketchy neighborhoods so Berkeley was not a shock to them. Under Montgomery his star Randel grew up a few miles away and Christopher was from a sketchy part of LA if I am not mistaken. Bozeman had local Kidd and paid off parents to get players. Telford had Rodgers as his quarterback and although he was from Chico spent a lot of time in the area between moves.
I bet if you look at top collegiate teams throughout all sports (other than sports where a region of the US has the bulk of the best players due to being more popular for kids to play like waterpolo, beach volley etc ) you will find that top teams have players from throughout the country. Berkeley’s soccer team has a large percentage from not only the Bay Area, but girls that played at Mustangs. Didn’t half of last years recruits come from Mustang before his dd decided to go to UCSB at the last minute?
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