The B10 is Dying

Football is becoming a much more cerebral game and the South is lacking in that department, especially in the high school ranks.

Can’t just roll a ball out on the field and out-athlete folks anymore.

Well it’s gonna be -20 here on the OH/W Va Border tomorrow but I don’t give two shits about the weather. One thing I’m glad for is that we don’t have lizards falling out of trees when it gets too cold

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I’m sorry if the truth offends you. Strawman responses no longer pass muster on the Rant. Rebut the actual substance of the post or admit your imbecility. It’s time to rejuvenate this forum. Attacking the purported motivations of the speaker, rather than the merits of the argument, is not an acceptable form of debate, jackass.

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The truth don’t mean shite, bitch boy. Indiana won. Suck a dick

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Football is becoming a much more cerebral game and the South is lacking in that department, especially in the high school ranks.

Can’t just roll a ball out on the field and out-athlete folks anymore.

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Its not the players who are lacking it. Its the coaches. Most of the programs in our conference have overrated coaches. The star players on that Indiana team were mostly southern players.

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You do know that the blue stuff on a map is water, right? None of those states are landlocked.

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Perhaps there are some folks who didn’t pay attention to geography in school.

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landlocked shitholes m that are Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, etc.


You do know that the blue stuff on a map is water, right? None of those states are landlocked.

"A landlocked country is a country that has no coastlines on the world ocean." So which of the those listed states have a coastline on an ocean?
Switzerland has Lake Geneva on its border, but is a landlocked country.
Taurus, I believe you are right, some people were not paying attention during geography class.

The USGS considers the great lakes inland seas, and geographically they are freshwater seas, with ocean access.

The most similar comparison of the great lakes as far as access to greater bodies of water up to and including oceans is the Black Sea, and nobody considers countries bordering the Black Sea to be landlocked.

Black Sea > Bosporous Strait > Sea of Marmara > Dardanelles Strait > Aegean Sea > Mediterranean Sea > Strait of Gibralter > Atlantic Ocean

Superior/Michigan > Huron > St. Claire > Erie > Ontario > St Lawrence Seaway > Atlantic Ocean

There are tons of countries that border seas with either direct or indirect ocean access that nobody considers landlocked. Limiting such labels to only countries that directly bordering oceans and oceans alone is an absurd definition.

Decent cope but a lot of what you're saying is actually true. Recruiting is an uphill battle for sure and it still blows my mind we are able to compete for recruits nationally. I know if I was an 18 year old kid who could choose to live anywhere in the country, I'm picking Miami, Austin, Phoenix, or anywhere else in Florida over places that get below zero in the winter. Its kind of daunting to think about everything we're up against when it comes to recruiting, and the default advantages the sec teams have.

On the other hand, conventional wisdom would tell you proximity to high school talent leads to better cfb teams but its now been over ten years since the state of Florida has won a national championship and over 20 for Texas and California. The portal and NIL is only going to further spread out the talent coming from these states. We've been hearing for over two decades now the population shift to southern/warmer states will kill big ten football but its currently the big ten trending upwards and the sec trending down. It really doesnt make sense if looking at the college football landscape from any traditional way of thinking. Teams in Texas and Florida should be racking up national championships, but they arent.

The current population shift got Georgia two democrat senators and 16 electoral college votes for joe biden, while the midwest has generally got redder, so I wouldn't really be bragging about this though. A lot of our liberals are leaving for places like new york, atlanta, nashville, california, etc but the demographics that are more likely to be into football are still here.

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I’d choose Indiana over anywhere in Georgia. People that move down south quickly realize it sucks.

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No, not even close. But your point has merit. I’ve lived in six SEC states and graduated from an SEC school, and there are fantastic places to live and raise a family. But a majority of the South is a dump full of white trash or crime filled black neighborhoods.

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Football is becoming a much more cerebral game and the South is lacking in that department, especially in the high school ranks.

Can’t just roll a ball out on the field and out-athlete folks anymore.

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CFB was almost dead a couple of years ago. Now its booming. The SEC is still every teams own national championship when they play and this is the first year that the SEC is finally starting to pay up and play the game.


Itll go back