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eliteproxy

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is it me or every year seems like 1 SEC team just jumps from last place to a front runner in recruiting.

Ole Miss last year, Tennessee this year..

Seems like if your doing horrible in the SEC, you get loads of pressure from boosters and are "allowed" to start to bend the rules a bit.
I want to follow up on this for next year to see if maybe Arkansas or another bottom SEC school jumps to a top 5 recruiting class next year.
 
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People say Kentucky, so where have their boosters been hiding all these years?
 
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This is all irrelevant anyway based on the current structure and playing most games in the conference. They can rotate that #1 spot every year and it would not matter because (currently):

A. Only two teams (at most) are eligible for BCS games from one conference, and

B. They have to play 8 in conference games.

They can't all be elite double digit win teams. Even if every team in the SEC goes 4-0 in their OOC schedule, they still need to win 6 games in conference to really make a case for a BCS bid and even that isn't guaranteed for an at large bid. In a "PERFECT" scenario 7 teams in the SEC could finish with conference records of 6-2, assuming those 7 teams also went 4-0 OOC. The SEC would have 7 teams sitting at 10-2. Based on the way things are today, a regular season record of 10-2 would not guarantee an at large BCS bid.

Let them rotate that spot, we just need to do our thing at Miami.

Not to mention they are recruiting rankings, once you arrive at college your stars are gone and it becomes a race to develop the players.
 
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Pressure from the big boys Bama, LSU and swamp scum on the little brothers to spend more so that teams like THE U never recover and take them out. he big three can only tie up so many recruits regardless of how much then spend, so the little sisters like UGA and USCe have to start spending some of that tv money too.
 
eliteproxy said:
is it me or every year seems like 1 SEC team just jumps from last place to a front runner in recruiting.

Ole Miss last year, Tennessee this year..

Seems like if your doing horrible in the SEC, you get loads of pressure from boosters and are "allowed" to start to bend the rules a bit.
I want to follow up on this for next year to see if maybe Arkansas or another bottom SEC school jumps to a top 5 recruiting class next year.
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They know all NCAA guns are pointed @ us. They (the non football powers)know now is the time to get away with anything. The big dogs in SEC it's business as usual.
 
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I'm not surprised with Tennessee. Like someone said its rich in tradition. Plus jones is a **** of a recruiter.
 
Consigliere said:
This is all irrelevant anyway based on the current structure and playing most games in the conference. They can rotate that #1 spot every year and it would not matter because (currently):

A. Only two teams (at most) are eligible for BCS games from one conference, and

B. They have to play 8 in conference games.

They can't all be elite double digit win teams. Even if every team in the SEC goes 4-0 in their OOC schedule, they still need to win 6 games in conference to really make a case for a BCS bid and even that isn't guaranteed for an at large bid. In a "PERFECT" scenario 7 teams in the SEC could finish with conference records of 6-2, assuming those 7 teams also went 4-0 OOC. The SEC would have 7 teams sitting at 10-2. Based on the way things are today, a regular season record of 10-2 would not guarantee an at large BCS bid.

Let them rotate that spot, we just need to do our thing at Miami.

Not to mention they are recruiting rankings, once you arrive at college your stars are gone and it becomes a race to develop the players.
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The problem with the SEC, is that the powers that be seem to think a 1 loss SEC team is better than an undefeated team from, let's say, The ACC.
I had a nightmare last week, and this is for real, that a 1 loss Alabama team was chosen ahead of us at 13-0 to face a 1 loss Ohio State team in Pasadena.
Woke up yelling, "what the Fuuck?"
Explained it to my wife, and she still, after 13 years, thinks I'm pretty much nuts.
 
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Yeah I wouldn't look too much into Tennessee having a top class right now. Their 2014 class is to them what our 2012 class was to us. Foundation for a rebuild. Like someone said, lots of PT available plus Jones can recruit.
 
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