re: What must the other conferences do to compete with SEC football?

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It all comes down to stud D linemen. If you look at where the DL guys drafted are from, its usually the south. Until then, they're only going to get worse.

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This. Also I would say that other regions of the country need to start putting at least half of their best athletes on defense starting at the junior-high or high school level.

I feel like in Big12 country or the West Coast for example, the most athletic kids are automatically made into RBs and WRs when in the south our coaches will at least consider making them LBs and CBs instead. It starts from the ground up.