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re: The SEC dominance is hurting college football overall
Posted on 10/5/14 at 2:28 pm to bucknut
Posted on 10/5/14 at 2:28 pm to bucknut
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College Football is in a decline and the only way the rest of the country will start watching again is once the historically top programs like tOSU, Michigan, USC, Penn State, etc are back in the top 10.
Man that is funny!
Folks are watching SEC football even in small markets like Mississippi because they are wining and that fat SECN deal means it is more than just folks in the footprint who are tuning in. When you start winning people will start watching but until then you look impotent to be impotent in a slowly downward spiral.
Oregon and Stanford have been slicing parts of the Southern Cal carcass to feed on and Michigan State is winning in the state of Michigan. Now that JoPa is gone and Pitt has moved into a Big 5 conference they may get back to being the dominant football program in PA. It was Indiana that beat the SEC this fall, not the "powers" of the B1G that you imply.
B1G is like the horse and buggy crowd who thought the car was just a fad. Now you are just the view is other's rear windows. Have fun stormin the castle tho.
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Posted on 10/5/14 at 2:29 pm to bucknut
All the manufacturing is moving down south. All the money is moving south. We have the most booming economy in the country in the southeast. We dominate football.
The south has already risen again and the Yankees don't realize it yet.
The south has already risen again and the Yankees don't realize it yet.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 2:30 pm to Cockopotamus
That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Bet you voted for Obama too!!!
By the like your handle fits you perfectly!!!
By the like your handle fits you perfectly!!!
Posted on 10/5/14 at 2:36 pm to deltaland
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All the manufacturing is moving down south.
Not really. It's moving to Texas and much of it is staying in the Midwest despite the "rust belt" perception.
Just look at the numbers from 2012. Manufacturing jobs added:
Posted on 10/5/14 at 2:37 pm to bucknut
Your avi is an SEC Player...
Posted on 10/5/14 at 2:38 pm to Doctor K
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Cockopotamus said:
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Doctor K said: That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Bet you voted for Obama too!!!
I see the Obama haters are getting set off by pretty much anything these days.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 2:39 pm to KSGamecock
Thanks, Mark Richt.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 2:40 pm to CNB
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CNB
Holy crap, nice avatar!
Posted on 10/5/14 at 2:41 pm to bucknut
You butthurt piece of trolling trash.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 2:42 pm to bucknut
If you bite the pillow, it won't hurt so badly.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 2:42 pm to Cheese Grits
Actually yeah, hadn't even noticed it. 
Posted on 10/5/14 at 3:00 pm to UsingUpAllTheLetters
It needed to be done
Posted on 10/5/14 at 3:11 pm to bucknut
That is just sour grapes on your part. It is booming anywhere not in the mid west.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 3:14 pm to Cdawg
MLB has been in decline ever since the Royals went in the shitter.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 3:14 pm to bucknut
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Especially having historically bad programs from small markets like the Mississippi schools ranked so high. College Football is in a decline and the only way the rest of the country will start watching again is once the historically top programs like tOSU, Michigan, USC, Penn State, etc are back in the top 10.
Are you saying we should lay down and die so your teams can dominate again?
And did you feel the same way when the B1G was dominating? I suspect not. It is cyclical. We are not as strong this year as we have been, but we will enjoy every second of our dominance. And, I think having new blood pumps up interest in college football.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 3:29 pm to DawgsLife
The fact is the B1G was never as dominant as they would like you to believe. The national media just over-ranked a lot of the teams up north compared to the SEC and PAC because that's where all the media elite were from. Back when there was only one or two college football games on TV a week, that was easier to do. Viewers couldn't compare talent level as easy as now when you can watch games from every corner of the country and make your own mind up.
TL;DR It was easier for the media to write the narrative before cable and the 'net
TL;DR It was easier for the media to write the narrative before cable and the 'net
Posted on 10/5/14 at 3:48 pm to bucknut
But you'll always have academic superiority, right? Oh, wait, the SEC is working hard in that "arena," too. How long before you hear that stampede behind you?
Posted on 10/5/14 at 3:50 pm to bucknut
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Especially having historically bad programs from small markets like the Mississippi schools ranked so high. College Football is in a decline and the only way the rest of the country will start watching again is once the historically top programs like tOSU, Michigan, USC, Penn State, etc are back in the top 10.
I'm gonna take your comment as serious for a moment instead of as the troll/insult to OM and MSU that it is... The South watches more College Football than ANYONE and it does not matter who is playing - demographically we watch everyone including the B1G teams. In fact, there have been many times where the South has produced higher ratings for B1G games than the B1G country. IOW, we watch and support college football at a level the rest of the country doesn't -- not just our own teams. Instead of worrying about small market places producing good teams you ought to be wondering why the rest of the country doesn't watch and support CFB the way the South does and what can be done about it.
This didn't start with SEC dominance. Culturally, college football is a religion here and always has been whereas in the rest of the country CFB is just another sport/means of entertainment.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 4:02 pm to bucknut
Actually, southern football, specifically, the SEC is carrying the college football world.
Posted on 10/5/14 at 4:08 pm to bucknut
I do think there should be some concern that college football could turn into a regional sport over the next 15 years or so. We like to make fun of the Big Ten, but if college football stays horrible in the northern mega markets another 10 years, the fans up there will lose interest and go exclusively NFL. There are billions more to be made if we can get people in Chicago and New York City to watch a college game, but they are not going to do it if the schools near them suck.
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