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re: A little SEC history here....What city was the SEC founded in?
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:07 pm to FulmersGonnaFixIt
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:07 pm to FulmersGonnaFixIt
Come on people. Posted by a Tennessee fan, it is Knoxville. But it was announced by a Florida president.
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The country’s preeminent modern football conference suddenly came into being on the evening of December 9, 1932, when then-Florida President John J. Tigert announced that his institution and 12 other schools had left the larger Southern Conference, effective immediately, to form the Southeastern Conference. Tigert’s announcement came at the Southern Conference’s annual meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee, the home of one of the breakaway schools.
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Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:07 pm to plazadweller
Knoxville?
This post was edited on 2/22/12 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:07 pm to FulmersGonnaFixIt
Atlanta, GA.
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:07 pm to plazadweller
Gatlinburg
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:07 pm to AUnite
The Southern Conference started in Gainesville and then a meeting in Knoxville was held and the SEC was formed.
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:08 pm to chilld28
Founded in Knoxville folks. Good job boys.
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:08 pm to FulmersGonnaFixIt
Starkville
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:08 pm to FulmersGonnaFixIt
i won
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:09 pm to FulmersGonnaFixIt
West Point
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:10 pm to FulmersGonnaFixIt
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:11 pm to jatebe
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“The main reasons for the rupture were geographical distance, travel time and expense, a great disparity between the large and small schools in the conference, and the fact that half the schools did not play each other from one year to the next, if at all.”
quote:SEC history lesson
While today we may be on the verge of forming 16-school “megaconferences,” the Southern Conference in 1932 had 23 members stretching from Maryland to Louisiana. The Southern Conference itself formed just a few years earlier, in 1921, from schools that broke away from the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA), the first college athletics organization in the South. Among the SIAA’s original members in 1894 were four present-day SEC schools: Alabama, Auburn, Georgia and Vanderbilt.
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:11 pm to FulmersGonnaFixIt
Since it was founded in Knoxville, why didn't they locate the headquarters there?
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:12 pm to FulmersGonnaFixIt
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Good job boys.
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:12 pm to dores97
because knoxville is a steaming pile of shite 
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:14 pm to plazadweller
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Cuba Alabama
Close to my home of Intercourse, AL and Whynot, MS as well.
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:15 pm to Damn Good Dawg
You guys are right, companies, countries, states, institutions NEVER move their headquarters/capitals.
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:15 pm to FulmersGonnaFixIt
Atlanta
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:17 pm to Slippery Slope
Atlanta
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:18 pm to FulmersGonnaFixIt
Kenmare, North Dakota?
Posted on 2/22/12 at 1:18 pm to Damn Good Dawg
Did anybody guess Atlanta? That's my guess, it's gotta be atlanta.
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