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re: Which SEC school would you send your son to play at....
Posted on 6/7/13 at 10:31 am to blackoutdore
Posted on 6/7/13 at 10:31 am to blackoutdore
Vandy. Best education and best location in the SEC.
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Posted on 6/7/13 at 10:56 am to CHSgc
tulane, have fun, get educated and actually play on the field. 
Posted on 6/7/13 at 11:30 am to roadGator
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Unless you are FL or aTm.
Having lived outside the south for awhile - and grown up in a academic family - I can tell you that this simply isn't the perception in the NE. FL and A&M are indistinguishable from LSU, UT, etc. Unless your public university has consistently been among the top 5-10 for going on 20+ years, it might as well be 50th. No SEC school outside of Vanderbilt has a national brand. Regionally those of us in the south know which schools are ranked slightly higher than others, but it doesn't mean much outside of shameless msg board trumpeting such as this.
Consider: you're a small biz owner and receive a slew of applications from three midwestern students for an open position. Their apps are roughly the same except for where they were educated: Iowa, Purdue and Indiana. Would the rankings of those schools in USNews sway you one iota? Would you even instinctively know which school was "better?" That's pretty much how a guy in Boston feels when he gets three apps from students from UF, UGA and UT.
Posted on 6/7/13 at 11:32 am to blackoutdore
Vandy
Posted on 6/7/13 at 11:32 am to TeLeFaWx
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Texas A&M. He would get a better education than anywhere else, and would have 25,000 women to choose from.
And 25,000 men too, based on the rumors.
Posted on 6/7/13 at 11:38 am to blackoutdore
Come hell or high water it's LSU but just for the hell of it I'll play the game
QB- Bama (Saban will always have a sick Oline and I would want him to be protected.)
RB- Bama (Saban's churning them out)
OL- Bama (Again back to the coaching)
TE- A&M (Best chance to be seen as a big time player at that position in the SEC)
DL- LSU (Hand's down the best at producing Dlineman in the NFL out of the SEC. Brockers, Dorsey, Jackson, Mingo, Montgomery, Kyle Williams etc..)
LB- Bama (Back to Saban)
CB- LSU (Obvious reason0
S- LSU (Read CB)
K/P- Bama (Best chance to win a title)
QB- Bama (Saban will always have a sick Oline and I would want him to be protected.)
RB- Bama (Saban's churning them out)
OL- Bama (Again back to the coaching)
TE- A&M (Best chance to be seen as a big time player at that position in the SEC)
DL- LSU (Hand's down the best at producing Dlineman in the NFL out of the SEC. Brockers, Dorsey, Jackson, Mingo, Montgomery, Kyle Williams etc..)
LB- Bama (Back to Saban)
CB- LSU (Obvious reason0
S- LSU (Read CB)
K/P- Bama (Best chance to win a title)
Posted on 6/7/13 at 11:44 am to blackoutdore
The first school which offered with Booster "support"
Posted on 6/7/13 at 12:02 pm to Tigah32
Probably USCe...somebody needs to teach the kid to properly pump gas into a vehicle 
Posted on 6/7/13 at 12:03 pm to blackoutdore
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mediocre 3* and had an offer from each of the 14 schools
Posted on 6/7/13 at 12:26 pm to GIbson05
^ John Grisham doesn't write bestselling books a/b Vandy and Bama law.
Posted on 6/7/13 at 12:30 pm to blackoutdore
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blackoutdore
Which SEC school would you send your son to play at....
If he were a mediocre 3*
You mean mediocre like this guy?
This post was edited on 6/7/13 at 12:32 pm
Posted on 6/7/13 at 1:10 pm to blackoutdore
13 of them.
And if he went to the 14th, I would disown him.
And if he went to the 14th, I would disown him.
Posted on 6/7/13 at 1:14 pm to DaleDenton
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Wouldn't you want your son to have a chance to play for championships while he was playing in college?
Posted on 6/7/13 at 1:16 pm to CHSgc
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aving lived outside the south for awhile - and grown up in a academic family - I can tell you that this simply isn't the perception in the NE. FL and A&M are indistinguishable from LSU, UT, etc. Unless your public university has consistently been among the top 5-10 for going on 20+ years, it might as well be 50th. No SEC school outside of Vanderbilt has a national brand. Regionally those of us in the south know which schools are ranked slightly higher than others, but it doesn't mean much outside of shameless msg board trumpeting such as this.
Consider: you're a small biz owner and receive a slew of applications from three midwestern students for an open position. Their apps are roughly the same except for where they were educated: Iowa, Purdue and Indiana. Would the rankings of those schools in USNews sway you one iota? Would you even instinctively know which school was "better?" That's pretty much how a guy in Boston feels when he gets three apps from students from UF, UGA and UT.
That's cool I guess for an academic family or a random small business owner in Boston, but in industry, A&M is very highly regarded. Especially the O&G industry, which makes the world go round.
Posted on 6/7/13 at 1:17 pm to MetryTyger
One that will teach him not to end a sentance with "at".........
Posted on 6/7/13 at 2:46 pm to 3legr
Graduation rates for football players say the best schools in the SEC are Mizzou and Alabama - both are in the top 10% of programs in terms of graduation rates. And you want him in a program that emphasizes academics. But there are other good schools too.
So, if my kid was a 3*, I'd look at Mizzou, Vandy or Georgia. A 3* kid isn't likely to play much at Bama, but would have a better chance at Mizzou or Vandy. UGA is a good school, and Richt would be a coach I see as a good role model. The choice would be his, but I'd push these schools.
If the kid was a 4* or 5*, he'd likely play anywhere he chose to go, so the choices would be wide open. I'd tell him to think about what he wanted to do, and which school and coaches would best help him get there. Again, I'd encourage Mizzou, Bama, Vandy and Georgia, and add Florida to that mix. But the choice would be his.
So, if my kid was a 3*, I'd look at Mizzou, Vandy or Georgia. A 3* kid isn't likely to play much at Bama, but would have a better chance at Mizzou or Vandy. UGA is a good school, and Richt would be a coach I see as a good role model. The choice would be his, but I'd push these schools.
If the kid was a 4* or 5*, he'd likely play anywhere he chose to go, so the choices would be wide open. I'd tell him to think about what he wanted to do, and which school and coaches would best help him get there. Again, I'd encourage Mizzou, Bama, Vandy and Georgia, and add Florida to that mix. But the choice would be his.
Posted on 6/7/13 at 2:55 pm to Slippery Slope
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Who would want to be surrounded by that many ugly chicks?
They're chicks? Damn.
Posted on 6/7/13 at 3:08 pm to 3legr
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One that will teach him not to end a sentance with "at"........
Check for foreign objects in the barrel before discharging your firearm
Posted on 6/7/13 at 4:39 pm to blacknblu
I was born and raised in Texas (also live there now after graduating from UA). This A&M academic crap is hilarious. Yes, it is a good public school. Texas is much better. Aggies like to claim that A&M is an equal academic school with "different strengths". That's just not the case. A&M is a great state school, but no different than UA, UGA, UF, etc. Any public institution ranked in the 50-100 range will carry roughly the same weight (as long as you aren't in a program the school isn't known for). Aggies like to quote the statistic that people like to hire their grads and their grads make more money. These things are true, but it's all skewed because of the pipeline to the Houston O&G business. While that's a great thing to have going for your school (it definitely is the #1 place to go if you want to end up in that industry) it doesn't carry any weight nationally or in other industries. It's a state school, just like all others in the 50-100 range. Michigan, UVA, Texas (to an extent), Berkeley, etc. are a whole different category.
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