Tauren melee range question

Hey folks, after becoming a LOT more comfortable with melee boxing, and now finished my raf Paladin team... I'm on to the next project. I'm pumped for more melee boxing and this time I think it's all about the cows. I know that they innately have a large melee range so they make excellent followers, BUT... does that range affect at all how mobs react to the leader? Does the leader Tauren simply sit more 'on top' of the mob or does his enlarged melee range make the mobs hang back at his max? I've never played a Tauren before so I'm sorry if its a stupid question. My point is, would the bonus of having tauren melee followers and their long reach be nullified by having a tauren leader's long reach somehow make mobs want to stay farther away in combat? Does it lend itself to Tauren followers + other race melee leader?

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