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Location: Central Texas. Wait, I mean South Texas. Actually, both Central and South Texas
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Originally Posted by BajanYankee
I grew up in Philadelphia. We've produced some fine players (Marvin Harrison is a Roman Catholic HS product). However, we don't have speed and talent across the board the way southern states do. Miami teams were always faster and stronger than our teams. The South shines when it comes to athletic defensive fronts and skilled positions.
There will always be a few stud football players from the Northeast like Harrison. But, generally speaking, the best athletes in the Northeast mega-cities focus on basketball.
Hopefully this will put and end to the ridiculous notion that the S-E-C is the greatest thing since slice bread and shut up the S-E-C homers up. You don't root for a conference you root for your team.
But, you can do both. You can root for your team first, and if they don't make it and another team from the conference makes it instead, then you can pull for the conference that your team belongs to. No matter what conference you like, you can also be a fan of a conference.
Right, in the SEC there is obviously more focus on athletic achievement and less emphasis on education. SEC universities are willing to spend more on athletics (and do pretty much whatever is necessary to win) when compared to other conferences, so you have more programs winning championships.
I think you might find it interesting to see which schools spend the most money on athletics.
Don't look now but the Vols might actually have a team in another year or two. They've been doing some mad recruiting lately. Jury's still out on the coach, but he's definitely an improvement over Junior Dooley.
Don't look now but the Vols might actually have a team in another year or two. They've been doing some mad recruiting lately. Jury's still out on the coach, but he's definitely an improvement over Junior Dooley.
i can live with that i`m a bama fan first then an SEC fan ..
SEC - 7 schools
Big 10 - 7 schools (3 in top 5)
Big 12 - 2
PAC 12 - 2
ACC - 2
Look at the B10 athletic programs. Wisconsin for example. They fund a much larger number of sports than the SEC schools. The money in the SEC is concentrated in fewer sports, so they're spending more on those sports.
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i`m a bama fan first then an SEC fan ..