mcarroll,

I grew up in the Hays area, and many of my good friends attend or have graduated from FHSU. That being said, Hays may be the single hardest sell to make to a college aged student. Hays is a great town to have kids and raise a family, but imagine if you were a recruit who came into town. Depending on the direction of the wind, the campus may or may not smell like a feedlot. The Mall has nearly as many closed stores as open ones. The college age nightlife consists of a few small bars. If there is a wrestling dual that evening, the student will see the meager crowd file into the lower level bleachers in Gross. The towns boasts two attractions, a museum and a fort. Not exactly leverage on a coach's side. Any student from a town bigger than Hays will probably be discouraged by its lack of size, and
the relative age of the town.
Regardless of how good of an education one can receive a FHSU, many people see it as a school in a podunk town, in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to do. Probably not the best place to be
at when competing against other schools for the same athletes.