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re: Who will be the next elite team in the SEC?
Posted on 9/17/12 at 9:09 am to aggressor
Posted on 9/17/12 at 9:09 am to aggressor
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The Mississippi schools have a decent recruiting base and some passionate fans but simply don't have the money or facilities to keep up. They can overachieve from time to time but long term they are never going to be able to keep up in the SEC West. Almost every conference opponent they play has twice their AD spend.
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Posted on 9/17/12 at 9:59 am to RebelWriter
The best hope for the Mississippi schools is they have an alum that turns into a T Boone Pickens/Phil Knight/Walton family that decides to drop $300 mill on the program. Don't know who that could be though. I honestly think if they had the cash the Mississippi schools could go toe to toe with the rest of the SEC West, especially Ole Miss. Right now it's just hard to recruit there against the other powers.
A&M has 3 Billionaire Former Students of note, 2 of which have given heavily to the school and a 3rd that has flirted with it in the past but none of the 3 has given big to football as of yet. We have a ton of grads in the "8 and 9 figure" group though. Oil money is good and A&M has the best Petroleum Engineering school in the world, though that isn't where all the big money guys are.
A&M has 3 Billionaire Former Students of note, 2 of which have given heavily to the school and a 3rd that has flirted with it in the past but none of the 3 has given big to football as of yet. We have a ton of grads in the "8 and 9 figure" group though. Oil money is good and A&M has the best Petroleum Engineering school in the world, though that isn't where all the big money guys are.
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