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Originally Posted by Saul Good
Mizzou was ranked ahead of multiple SEC teams in 2013 recruiting. W are also ahead of Oklahoma State, TCU, Kansas, Texas Tech, Kansas State, Iowa State.
Every team in the SEC was in the top 40. The Big 12 champion finished 56th. The highest rated Big 12 team finished 13th. SEVEN teams from the SEC finished above the top Big 12 team.
Can't compete in the SEC? Ole Miss has the #2 class in the country.
There are 33 5* players in the country. The SEC got 21 of them.
The SEC had 4 teams land multiple 5* players. The rest of the conferences combined had 1.
These players didn't all go to the traditional powers, either. 11 of them went to Mississippi, Mississippi State, Auburn, A&M, or Arkansas.
Being in the SEC doesn't automatically make you a "have", but it sure opens a lot of doors.
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Which SEC teams were we ahead of, I don't see any?
http://rivals.yahoo.com/missouri/foo...k/2013/all/all
As for the Big XII we aren't in that league any longer. I'm concerned w/ how we stack up against the teams we compete w/ now. If we were playing OkSt, TCU, KU, Ist, etc I'd see you point. As we aren't it seems irrelevant.
Also, Auburn is a traditional power. They have gone undefeated 3 times in the past 20 years and of course won the NC in 2010. It's a top 25 program all time, probably top 20. Since 1976 no school outside the big six as won the SEC, w/ Aub being one of those schools along w/ Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Florida, and Tennessee. They are by any measure, a traditional power.
Mississippi is roughly 35% black. Translation: talent and a lot of it. The state puts more players per capita into the NFL than darn near any other. At one time it was #1 per capita, but those rankings were several years ago in terms of what I saw, regardless it is very close to the top if it isn't still #1. Even being the doormats that the MS schools have been since the 60s when Ole Miss was good (more or less) and a brief spike for Miss St in the 90s having all of that in state talent is a huge advantage for them. Obviously they have a hard time taking advantage of it but it is something we do not have.
Outside of Arkansas and Kentucky I can't think of another state that doesn't have more h.s. football talent. And then of course in terms of winning and history and all that aTm, Alabama, LSU, Auburn, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, and Arkansas have all had more success.
Yes being in the SEC has it's +'s, but we aren't running with the Iowa State's of the world any longer. I don't know if you were paying attention but the Big XII's co conference champ got beat by 50 by the SEC's 4th best team.
Pinkel hiring family members and promoting lapdogs that can't recruit their weight ain't gonna cut it in the deep end swimming with the sharks. The point isn't that MU should quit trying. The point is that the odds are very long and if the school is going to be competitive it has to rethink the way it conducts business and go at more along the lines of how Arkansas is operating. IDK if Bielema will be successful or not but you take a look at the staff they just assembled and then compare that to what Pinkel did with opportunities to upgrade the staff once last year and again this year and then tell me with a straight face which is school is actually trying and which school is standing by watching its coach go through a mid life crisis as he drives our program back into the ground from which he to his credit did build it up.