Imagine you're at a high ranked program. You are taught that the sum total of your value as an applicant is pubs, research skills and prestige so you prioritize that over teaching or service. Then you come here and learn that there are a significant number of jobs where the graduate from Tennessee who did their dissertation with SPSS but adjuncted at community college and was active in service is way more attractive than you. I wouldn't take it well, either.
Yes, fair enough. It sucks. But it doesn't excuse the denial of reality. If the Tennessee PhD gets the job, that's real. It's a data point. We may kick and scream how unfair it is and so forth.
The problem isn't the random Tennessee PhD who takes the 5-5 job at Tennessee Tech. He's not taking the job that the 19th best Indiana grad was hoping to get or the 26th best Yale grad was aiming for. It's that Indiana has 19 people on the market and Yale has 26 (numbers made up, before someone chimes in with "IU doesn't have 19 people on the market!!!")