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re: How long until the pendulum swings the other way?
Posted on 4/29/11 at 10:14 am to RebFeBrees
Posted on 4/29/11 at 10:14 am to RebFeBrees
I don't see it happening anytime soon. Our "bottom teams" are getting way better. Miss St, Arky, and even Kentucky have pushed themselves up. Ole Miss has swings of good years. We will always have the top teams, but these lower teams getting better coaches and players are what's going to separate us from the rest.
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Posted on 4/29/11 at 12:13 pm to RebFeBrees
The South's main advantages are recruits and fan support.
The South is where the recruits are, plain and simple. Texas and California produce as well, but on the whole, you have to have a strong presence in the Southeast in order to fill a roster with enough talent to win a MNC. By and large, it takes a lot to convince a recruit to leave the South when there's so many great teams in his back yard.
Secondly, we all know more people per capita care about CFB in the South than anywhere else, and its not even close. Fan support in and of itself isn't that big of a deal, but what it does do is allow the big money to flow early and often. That's why we have the largest stadiums on average, the best facilities, and the highest paid and best coaches. Rich alums like Knight can pump money into a school here and there, but those guys are outliers for their communities. The average Joe in the Northeast, Midwest, or West coast may deem spending that much cash on CFB unreasonable.
With the demographics showing the midwest losing population and the South gaining, I think the SEC is only going to get more dominant. The better the SEC gets, the less likely the good players and coaches will go elsewhere. It's autocatalytic.
The South is where the recruits are, plain and simple. Texas and California produce as well, but on the whole, you have to have a strong presence in the Southeast in order to fill a roster with enough talent to win a MNC. By and large, it takes a lot to convince a recruit to leave the South when there's so many great teams in his back yard.
Secondly, we all know more people per capita care about CFB in the South than anywhere else, and its not even close. Fan support in and of itself isn't that big of a deal, but what it does do is allow the big money to flow early and often. That's why we have the largest stadiums on average, the best facilities, and the highest paid and best coaches. Rich alums like Knight can pump money into a school here and there, but those guys are outliers for their communities. The average Joe in the Northeast, Midwest, or West coast may deem spending that much cash on CFB unreasonable.
With the demographics showing the midwest losing population and the South gaining, I think the SEC is only going to get more dominant. The better the SEC gets, the less likely the good players and coaches will go elsewhere. It's autocatalytic.
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