re: 4 SEC schools finish in the top 10 of the Directors Cup.

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I applaud success in all athletics but I was pointing out to Arkansas fans that it was their solid football program that put them in one of the top two leagues.

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Proves how little you actually know about what you're spewing. At the time Arkansas joined the SEC, we had one of the few self-sustaining athletics departments in the country. We ran in the black. We had a basketball program that emerged from the Eddie Sutton Glory Days and rolled right into the Nolan Richardson Glory Days - a 25 year span that had us in the Top 10 in wins over that time frame. Football was coming off back-to-back SWC championships. Track and Field was in the midst of a run never seen in ANY sport (not Oregon T&F... Not UNC soccer...). Other, non-revenue sports were holding their own.

JFB was able to sell Arkansas as a solid TOTAL athletics department that made money and brought with it a brand and a region that the SEC could leverage for more money. Football was part of the equation, but if we were just football and nothing else, we would have been passed over.