<p>“it doesn’t sound like he attends what we think of a directional state school. It sounds like he attends a big state school with big sports that isn’t a flagship.”</p>
<p>There are some large directionals with big sports programs – Western Michigan, Southern Miss, South Florida, etc. When I see “directional” on CC, I usually take it to mean a public university that is not among the state’s flagships and is not well known outside the state. The schools are commonly former teacher’s colleges/normal schools. I’d consider both West Georgia and Valdosta State to be directional schools in the CC sense, even though only one has an actual direction in the name.</p>