re: Why is Tennessee so important to the SEC?

Every school is important to the SEC

I Don't give a shite about integration. You said that:

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A 3 year span in the late 60s and a 5 year span in the late 80s is not, imo, being a "consistent" contender

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That's your opinion

We know, you've told us. You're very hung up on that arbitrary stat

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You guys can barely handle Gainesville every other year.

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Florida is .550 vs LSU in Gainesville where they are .719 vs Auburn.

Auburn's won, what, twice at UF since 1990?

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You might be gaining on us, but you are still a long, long ways off. That is not a knock on Tennessee. I find it more incredible that Tennessee has had the history they have had, since they have primarily had to go out of state for their best recruits. For me, that is more impressive.

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Geography favors us now more than ever before. Too many wrongly associate state lines as the key to recruiting advantage but that's the wrong way of looking at it. It's geography as in distance not imaginary state lines that matters. In this regard, Tennessee is close to many out of state recruiting pools in GA, SC, NC, OH, and elsewhere. In many cases, our out of state recruits are as close to UT campus as they are the in-state school they're considering and sometimes closer. In other cases, our in-state recruits are as far away (or nearly) as an out of state recruit from OH, IN, DC, or Maryland.

UT has always recruited nationally and we happen to be located in an area that is within 4 hrs of many major recruiting areas. To say that we are at a disadvantage in recruiting is to miss a great deal of the picture. Yes, we have to go out of state but often that's no further than an in-state trip would be for other schools and no school only recruits its own state. UGA, FL, and TAMU are the only ones who could theoretically fill their rosters using only in-state players and yet none of you do.

There's a bit more work to targeting multiple states but it's something we've been doing for decades successfully.

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And that, my friends, is the point. Will it go round in circles? Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky?

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You've got a song but it aint got no melody

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Didn't read, voted down


Also downvoted the funnier version of you, but nobody likes him either.

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I'm sure he's just as hurt as I am.

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You're living in the past, dude. Nashville-Murfreesboro area is one of the fastest growing in the nation. And with growth comes more better players. Tennessee is the southern state that is gaining on the Georgias and Floridas of the world.

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Well see, here's where you're even more wrong. Metro Atlanta is projected to gain 2.5 million people by 2040, which makes it, by far, the fastest growing metro area in the South. That means that Atlanta will gain more than 3 Nashvilles.
LINK GA, FL, TX, OH, CA and PA are where football players are born. Not TN

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You're living in the past, dude. Nashville-Murfreesboro area is one of the fastest growing in the nation. And with growth comes more better players. Tennessee is the southern state that is gaining on the Georgias and Floridas of the world.

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Well see, here's where you're even more wrong. Metro Atlanta is projected to gain 2.5 million people by 2040, which makes it, by far, the fastest growing metro area in the South. That means that Atlanta will gain more than 3 Nashvilles.
LINK GA, FL, TX, OH, CA and PA are where football players are born. Not TN. Not now, not ever. You have country music to follow back on, though.

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You're living in the past, dude. Nashville-Murfreesboro area is one of the fastest growing in the nation. And with growth comes more better players. Tennessee is the southern state that is gaining on the Georgias and Floridas of the world.

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Well see, here's where you're even more wrong. Metro Atlanta is projected to gain 2.5 million people by 2040, which makes it, by far, the fastest growing metro area in the South. That means that Atlanta will gain more than 3 Nashvilles.
LINK GA, FL, TX, OH, CA and PA are where football players are born. Not TN. Not now, not ever. You have country music to follow back on, though.