re: (OFFSEASON) Spinoff: Which SEC Teams Actually Belong to the SEC Country Club

Personally I like the group I have now even though IMO the only one you could argue about is UF and even then I think they would find enough ammo to prove their worth.

To me the only thing in question is should more be added(I guess possibly taken away) and IMO the group to look at for additions would be:

Kentucky
Louisiana State
Tennessee

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So how many of those schools have you actually visited?


All but Kentucky

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Therein lies the rub. National media portrays the state as mountain people when they only make up 10 - 20 percent of the population. Most of the states population lies in the "golden triangle" of Louisville - Lexington - Cincinnati with Lexington being old south and Louisville and Cincinnati not so much. Central KY is the Bluegrass region and very unlike the rest of the state.

It prospered as an agricultural center due to crops in the area :

Hemp for the age of sail
Tobacco for smoking
Horses for calvary and racing
Bourbon for drinking
Coal for energy

It was called the "Athens of the west" and Transylvania University was on par with Harvard and had one of the best medical schools in the country. Though Transy was started as a private school it was split in two to form UK- and both suffered academic reputation from it. It has the oldest continuous gentlemen's club in operation west of the Allegheny Mountains and was originally part of Virginia. Most of the oldest families in Central KY are offshoots of old Virginia families and the area was very pastoral unlike the foothills that cover much of the rest of the state.

Because of their southern heritage is why UK is an SEC school and not a B1G one. Think of UK and Central KY as an island unlike the rest of the state. If you have never been I suggest racing in April and October as the best season and when the Dogwoods are in bloom it is quite lovely.

I almost went for a visit because I was thinking of LAW school for awhile and they had a good program that I thought I could get into ... then I decided against LAW school in general, did grad school instead.

Gentlemen's clubs by SEC state and location (founding date)
Note only clubs founded before 1900 are listed.

Alabama - Birmingham
The Concordia Club (1886)

Arkansas = NONE

Florida = NONE

Georgia - Atlanta
The Burns Club Atlanta (1896)
The Capital City Club (1883)
The Piedmont Driving Club (1887)
Georgia - Savannah
The Oglethorpe Club (1870)

Kentucky - Lexington
The Lexington Club (1860) = oldest club on this list and founded by southern calvary officers
Kentucky - Louisville
The Pendennis Club (1881)

Louisiana - Baton Rouge
The City Club (1894)
Louisiana - New Orleans
The Boston Club (1841)
The Louisiana Club (1872)
The New Orleans Athletic Club (1872)
The Pickwick Club (1857)
The Round Table Club (1898)
The Stratford Club (1897)

Mississippi = NONE

Missouri - Columbia
The University Club of Missouri University (1895) - just made the cutoff date
Missouri - Kansas City
The Kansas City Club (1882)
Missouri - Saint Joseph
The Benton Club (1887)
Missouri - Saint Louis
The Noonday Club (1893)

South Carolina - Charleston
The Charleston Club (1852)

Tennessee - Chattanooga
The Mountain City Club (1889) - original SEC member Sewanee is just west of Chattanooga

Texas - Fort Worth
The Fort Worth Club (1885)
Texas - Houston
The Houston Club (1894)



For SEC candidates :

North Carolina - Wilmington
The Cape Fear Club (1866)

Virginia - Norfolk
The Virginia Club (1873)
Virginia - Richmond
The Commonwealth Club (1890)

The football team running out to the beat of Merle Haggard certainly spells F-R-A-T

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and not as halfway as ghey as that greek life thread

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Has anybody said crew yet? That's gotta be a cc sport.

I'm game. This thread is correct. No AU, no UT, and no Ms State. Sounds fitting for the SEC Country Club.

So y'all have crewe but no tennis ...