I have followed SEC football and recruiting for 40 years. I also have a lot of training and work experience in crunching numbers.

The future of the SEC is in Texas and along the Atlantic coast.

The schools in between will diminish in importance due to the demographic trends being overwhelmingly against them.

Watch for Mr. Slive to take schools from North Carolina and Virginia as soon as he can due to the shift in population to those states.

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Posted by BigAppleTiger

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Posted on 6/12/13 at 8:56 pm to Maroon Flash

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I have followed SEC football and recruiting for 40 years. I also have a lot of training and work experience in crunching numbers.

Apparently it takes longer than 40 years to recognize when a recruiting class is done and over.

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Posted by skrayper

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Posted on 6/13/13 at 3:07 am to Maroon Flash

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I have followed SEC football and recruiting for 40 years. I also have a lot of training and work experience in crunching numbers.

Not very well, apparently.

In that stretch, Alabama has 7 National Titles wire-press national titles. That's more than any two teams in the SEC combined when using ALL of their National Titles. The rest of the SEC combined in that same stretch is 8.

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The future of the SEC is in Texas and along the Atlantic coast.

Florida and UGA, sure. A&M and USCe have to prove they can continue with long-term success. Being #6 in winning % compared to the SEC in that 40 year span isn't terribly impressive (A&M) and being #50 overall (South Carolina) is really unimpressive.