what or how do you truly define a national school? Every school has alumni all over the country and probably some of the bigger schools could claim to have a national following just like the Irish. Some may try to paint the Irish as a national school because of their catholic ties, however, were that to be the argument someone could quickly snap up Liberty and make a similar styled argument. In the end, I think footprint is defined along geographic lines with a certain radius and more subjective criteria will create a host of other potential problems.