The SEC has become the 2000s B12 but

Are you inferring that it won't work like this, that other conferences/schools with stout defenses will start winning titles? Because that isn't what has gone on in the past decade for the SEC.

I think this is an overreaction. Alabama played some of its best defense in the playoffs. Shutting down a really good Ohio State offense that had just blasted Clemson.

I don't recall ever having to choose to put our most athletic players on offense. We recruited athletic guys that were already skill players. We still do.

And your defenses are tracking on an identical downward slide that the BIG XII's defense did when spread offenses arrived.

Statistical ranking at the end of the season, yes. Watching how they play in games. Final scores. You're having more basketball scores, like we did.

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BTW,how are the defenses "tracking" vs OOC opponents compared to the BIG 12?

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I don't know that answer to that or what difference it makes. Defenses were pretty strong in the league last year, and it showed in the bowls, so probably not the best question to ask.

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Do you have some type of link or analytical data to back this up?

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You can find that on the NCAA defensive standings website.

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Of course it does if these high scores are within the conference and they're still playing good defense against high powered offenses from outside the conference.Like LSU last year vs OU and Clemson or like Bama this year vs Clemson.

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Let's not act like we haven't seen Bama's defense get shredded in the post season, or Clemson's, or Ohio States. Bama didn't play Clemson this year. All the normal playoff participants have had their defenses shredded on national television, win or lose.

The offenses in your league have been modernized and improved, especially in the West. They are the offenses we ran for over a decade in the BIG XII. Your defensive reputation is going to take a big hit. There's no way around that.