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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
I agree fully from the football perspective (although I think MU will be in the Arkansas-comparable purgatory of that league long term). But colleges exist for many more reasons than football matchups. The BIG is probably the best all around conference in the US. Probably by a good margin. Outside of football I don't see anything better about the sec
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Yep that's fair. I think we could have won the Big 12, that's something we were capable of b/c we only need to jump a couple powers in a given year. There are too many powers in the SEC making it virtually impossible to jump them all, which is why the big 6 has won the last 50 SEC titles or whatever the # is. But it's either that or slip into irrelevance in the Big Ten and get our asses kicked w/ a roster full of slow white guys by Big 12 and SEC schools in our bowl game.
Those other sports you reference pale in comparison to football from my POV. Plus you can make final four runs from any major league and even some of the lesser ones so in that sense I don't see it as a harbinger to hoops success although it definitely makes for a less entertaining regular season.
The SEC is the best conference in the country in baseball as well as football more years than not.
Also, I don't follow really any sports outside football, men's hoops, and baseball so I really have no idea but I did a little googling and while it's just one year it appears the SEC more than holds it's own in some of those other sports...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf--...m-is-best.html
...at least in terms of champions. No idea about depth in those other sports. I actually would have figured it was the PAC 12, for some reason I have the perception that's the league winning titles in all those other sports most years. But again, I'm very uninformed b/c I honestly don't care. I get that others do and am not out to put that POV down.