McMurfy
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ORIGINAL: djskillz Those are the last 8 title games, Murf. There's no way around that. There just isn't. EVEN if you stretch it to 16 years and say "well, they've only won 9 out of the last 16" do you realize what you're saying? You're saying the SEC has won more than all the other conferences combined in the last 16 years. And the gap has only grown larger over the last 8. So I don't see how you are continuing to argue that any other conference is comparable. Head to head matchups create all kinds of problems because you're not placing a conference's 1 vs. another conference's 1, etc. Bowl games you have the same issue, especially when there's so much depth in the SEC. Titles and NFL talent speak volume, and the SEC has been dominating in both categories the last several years. As for the committee, "East" is not "SEC". The Chair, Jeff Long, is not from the SEC, and doesn't really have SEC ties. He has a ton of BigEast/ACC/Big10 ties. Barry Alvarez: clearly a Big10 guy. Lt. General Mike Gould: Air Force. No real ties elsewhere. Pat Haden; clearly a Pac12 guy. Tom Jernstedt: clearly a Pac12 guy. Oregon through and through. Oliver Luck: a West Virginia and Texas guy. Big12. And a high-profile son that was obviously a Pac12 guy. Archie is not a part of it. Tom Osborne: Clearly a Big10/Big12 guy. Dan Radakovich: Experience everywhere really, but mainly in the BigEast/ACC Condoleeza Rice: Stanford is clearly her biggest connection. If anything, certainly Pac12. Mike Tranghese: About as big of a BigEast homer as you can get. Steve Wieberg: Missouri guy. So I guess you could say SEC, though his history has mainly been in the Big12. Tyrone Willingham: Almost all of his tenure in the Pac12 or Big10, or Notre Dame (midwest) By my count that is: Pac12: 3 1/2 Big12: 2 Big10: 2 1/2 ACC: 2 1/2 SEC: 1/2 Neutral: 1 (AF guy) Again, you can maybe argue 1 guy on the whole committee with SEC ties. And that's tenuous at best. Almost all of the committee is Pac12/Big10/Big12/ACC. So where's the SEC bias? If anything there's an anti-SEC bias there. And clearly so far this committee sees the SEC as the dominant conference. Jeff Long is the Athletic Director at the University of Arkansas, how is that not an SEC tie? I'm not even going to read the rest of your statement because it is already a crappy argument.
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