Yes it is true to a certain degree because everyone grows up here with football the only focus. Literally the second most popular sport might be spring football. But there are good athletes that play basketball down here and if you look at recruiting sites there are a good amount from this state that play major D1. I think the SEC has the potentially to be a good conference and has been in years past. You have Kentucky and Florida who are year in year out as good as anyone. Then that next tier is Mizzou, Arkansas, and many years Vanderbilt and Tennessee (a football school that still at times gets 20k fans for basketball games).

In my opinion many kids in this region go else where (ACC, or far from home) to play where basketball is more of an emphasis and more talked about. Also basketball recruiting as a whole is a much more national recruiting situation where kids often play far from home. So I think that fan support and hype plays a big role in it. But I see the SEC being much improved soon because there are 8 or 9 schools in the SEC i believe can be very good programs.

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Posted by reedus23

St. Louis

Member since Sep 2011

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Posted on 3/5/13 at 9:13 am to TigerinUGA

Quick Tiger Tale of sorts. Son just brought home a stack of homework to be reviewed and signed by us. I was going through it, checking his grades, making sure he was getting his work done when I see an English paper he had to write. They had to do a parable and the title caught my attention. "The Tiger and the jayhawk". He went on to talk about all the misfortunes the jayhawk had because of his arrogance and when faced with adversity he would give up and quit. The Tiger, on the other hand, would fight and never give up and always eventually succeeded. At the end they had to write what the moral of the story was and it was "Always be a Tiger. Never be a jayhawk." The kicker of the story is that his English teacher...yepp...is a kU grad. Give her credit though, he still got an "A" on the paper. Not sure what I did, but did something right with the kid.