re: Interesting NY Times article on University of Alabama and USCe

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People are going to naturally gravitate to where the jobs are.....there are many other factors that dictate where economic growth takes place in and out of the State of Alabama. It would be like saying it's dumb for the University of Michigan to be a top tier institution because their graduates don't stay in Michigan.

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Yea - kids have been migrating to Atlanta and whatever the other hot location in the South is at the time (Nashville/New Orleans/etc) for decades. Auburn sends tons of kids to Metro Atlanta, always have (a lot of them are originally from there, as well). What happens is Atlanta has a massive Auburn Alumni base that represents Auburn everywhere they go and spurns more kids to go to Auburn. Not much downside there to me.