How did the SEC even become the best conference?

[Swagnificent]

Because that's where all the best players in the country come from?



A lot of em, anyway.

Pretty much.

If you look back 30-40 years ago, the SEC was not dominant in college football. It was mostly schools in the north like Ohio State and in the west like USC. And they were good cause they recruited black players. While a lot of SEC schools at that didn't recruit black players.

SEC only really started looking at black athletes around the 80s and it took another 15 years or so before black families became comfortable sending their kids to the local SEC school. And since then the SEC has dominated.

 

[Swagnificent]

SEC is just Alabama and a bunch of other teams now.

They'll never have another run like they had from '06 to '12 because of the playoff.

You wish. As long as most black folks continue to live in the south, SEC schools will dominate along with ACC schools like Clemson and Florida State that share the same recruiting footprint.

At the end of the day it's about players. And as long as the elite athletes in the south stay close to home, southern schools will dominate.

 

[smitty22]

Bowl season hasn't even begun yet. I hope you give this years bowl games as much attention as yall did last year.

Right now, 9 of the 10 SEC teams are favorites to win their bowl.

I'd love to see what happens here is the SEC goes 10-1 during the bowl season and Alabama wins the national championship.

I'm gonna guess bowl season won't matter once again if that happens.

You said bowl season didnt count last year cause teams dont get up for them cause it aint the chip game. Now they matter cause the sec fell off . You something else

 

[Goat poster]

Bowl season hasn't even begun yet. I hope you give this years bowl games as much attention as yall did last year.

Right now, 9 of the 10 SEC teams are favorites to win their bowl.

I'd love to see what happens here is the SEC goes 10-1 during the bowl season and Alabama wins the national championship.

I'm gonna guess bowl season won't matter once again if that happens.

Did Bowl season matter last year when the SEC got their shyt kicked in?

They also got OWNED by the ACC during rivalry week as well

 

[Reggie]

Some of the best talent is in the South and those guys are staying closer to home instead of venturing to other coasts.

 

[JBoy]

best talent and biggest money booster bases basically

 

[Carlos Huerta]

Once black folks decided to go to those racist schools.

SEC dominates college football because of location. Most of the black population in America lives in the south and kids are more likely gonna stay close to home than go across the country.

If most black folks lived in the north then the big 10 would be the gold standard cause that's where all the great black athletes would go.

My lord this is so dumb

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

Swag man it's too early for all that

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

2006 - Florida
2007 - LSU
2008 - Florida
2009 - Alabama
2010 - Auburn
2011 - Alabama
2012 - Alabama

But to be fair, the rest of the country has pretty much caught up to the level of play in the SEC.

 

[Keengcong]

"Its really going down in the south bytch!!!"

 

[smitty22]

1. Five states are responsible for almost half of NFL draft picks.

(USA TODAY Sports Images)

In the past three NFL drafts, players from Florida, Texas, California, Georgia and Ohio made up 47.3% of the 763 players selected. In 2013, the percentage was 51.3%.

 

[Spade]

Well if your state doesn't have I-10 run through it, you usually don't win national titles.

In all seriousness though, when you have states such as Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas next door to Louisiana, you have a region that is far more talented the rest of the nation and the SEC kept those kids in the region. Not to mention, the SEC won simply by having great defensive lines and great running games. It took seven years for the rest of the nation to catch up.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Well if your state doesn't have I-10 run through it, you usually don't win national titles.

basically....truest shyt said in this thread

 

[714562]

The most important factor, and the most under-discussed factor in this thread, is money. SEC schools are willing to spend a ridiculous amount of money on football. The benefit of this spending to the university is a matter of some dispute, but what is undisputed is that SEC schools shell out the big bucks.

Schools in power conferences spending more on recruiting

Power conference schools went from spending an average of $247,000 more than non-power conference schools in 2008-09 to spending $360,000 more in 2012-13, the most recent school year for which nationwide data are available.

. . .

SEC schools spent an average of $582,000 per year recruiting football players during the five-year period, far more than schools in the other four power conferences — the Big 12 ($450,000), Big Ten ($444,000), Atlantic Coast ($426,000) and Pac-12 ($403,000).

The booster culture in the South is just different. Most of the people who tend (or once tended) to strike it rich from these universities came from small communities where the school was god. That homer mentality stayed with them throughout their lives. You think Stanford tech billionaires really care about football like that?

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

7 in a row left no doubt.