re: What happened to the SEC?

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But NIL is what initiated southern kids going all over the country and vice versa

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Yeah because no kid from the south ever went up north or out west to play ball pre NIL.

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What happened to the mighty and dominant SEC?

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Money - I grew up with a conference with a big chip on their shoulder. It was always "Us vs everybody else"

Realignment - Starting with Penn State to the Big Televen it was about the B1G becoming relevant with the Walter Beyers dictatorship ending at the NCAA in the late 1970's. The goal was to land Notre Dame and Uxt. B1G wrecked the college game for their own benefit while Utx wound up in the SEC and Notre Dame wound up in the ACC

CFP - Like the NCAA and the college basketball tournament was all about adding teams for more money. Imagine if the NCAA basketball tournament played more like the CWS where it took 2 losses to exit so the better teams more likely not to be knocked out in a fluke game. It also meant fans of teams got to see more games on a weekend in person. Going past the Top 2 or Top 4 was a money grab and nothing more. It was done to make the B1G and PAC relevant again, and it has done just that.

Sankey - Let short term media and money cloud his judgement as those before him played the long game and what was best for the conference as a whole. B1G always had the eyeballs (so could generate more $$$$) but SEC had the product (but in low population states). Now the eyeballs in higher population states can use NIL to their advantage,

Other
a) TAMU furking at the end and not in October
b) Kiffen leaving with a team in the CFP hunt
c) Private equity taking over local leadership (CLC / AL) and (Host / KY)
d) etc


SEC is best when they are the red headed stepchild with something to prove. Need to get hunger back in an age where national media has far too much control.

By earn it on the field, you mean like Indiana who olayed no one during the regular season and had a cake walk bracket to get in the final game.

Indiana, UGA, Miami, Ohio State, Texas AM and Ole Miss were all neck and neck. They shoukd have been split.

Oregon, Alabama. Oklahoma, JMU, Texas Tech had no business in the playoffs but thays IUs bracket.

It’s just three years. Jesus.

We had five teams in the playoffs. Ole Miss might have gotten past Miami if they hadn’t lost half their coaching staff.

I do think you could argue that some of our top talent was hindered by lack of coaching. Alabama still is full of four and five star players and Deboer seems to not understand what to do with them. Texas should also be doing more with the roster they have.

We’ll adjust. Again, it’s three seasons after 20 years of kicking arse.

Now everybody is buying Chargers and no show jobs.

Sorry you’re poor.

Kirby got fat

You are dropping too much truth for these mouth breathers.

Instead of “SEC” you could have just said, what happened to Nick Saban?

If not him directly, then his strategy for winning championships.

And the answer is clearly NIL. The Saban strategy had a lot to do with both hogging the best players while starving the competition (sorry, it wasn’t some “magical” thing about Alabama or the SEC). When paying players became mainstream, suddenly you have Indiana winning a national championship.

If you’ve got a true National championship team, all that other stuff doesn’t matter. It’s just excuses.

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By earn it on the field, you mean like Indiana who olayed no one during the regular season and had a cake walk bracket to get in the final game.

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2019 LSU would not have cared about their bracket because they were a real national champion. They would have just beaten whoever was in front of them which they did. If you have to squabble over matchups you’re basically acknowledging that you are not the best team in the country that year. Those are just excuses.