re: Ancestral geneology of SEC people

See...leave it to Mizzou fans to try and start causing trouble in this thread and try and take it off topic. Joining the Gators in history revisionism, which is still a crime in some southern states.

Let's do Florida.

Ponce de Leon arrived in Florida and got the hell out as soon as he could. I don't blame him. So then trickled in a bunch from the north, from Cuba getting away from Fidel. The mafia set in at some point, Italian mob, mostly Miami because they just kept going when they got to Gainesville. Nothing to see there. Nothing to do. Nothing good at all.

America waited quite a few years before actually naming Florida as a state because of all the questionable things we still wonder about today. I believe Colorado actually became a state before Florida did. We just didn't want it, or the people, wherever the hell they came from. I think Andrew Jackson decided there might be some farm land there, so why not. Get it cheap. Grow some strawberries maybe. Anything. It's right there south of Georgia. Might as well take it.

This post could probably go on and on, but I'll just end it and say I don't think one football coach has ever come out of Florida. They're always from somewhere else. Shula, Urban, Spurrier, Bobby Bowden and Howard Schnellenburger. All of them.

Maybe Ron Zook descended from Florida ancestors, so that's the exception that proves the rule.

Glad I'm not from Florida. Damn.

edit: I do believe Vanilla Ice is from Florida.