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What the Rise of Southern Football Says About America
Wall Street Journal ^ | DECEMBER 5, 2008 | Darren Everson

Posted on 12/05/2008 12:54:10 PM PST by bamahead

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To: Joe Boucher

ROLL TIDE ROLL, but Tebo and company look really good. Well we have the consolation, if we loose, of winning the coach’s salary race.


81 posted on 12/05/2008 1:38:38 PM PST by A Strict Constructionist (On the "Road to Surfdom"is no longer a question.)
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To: Ted

You ain’t walked the walk this year. You have only talked until you play Florida or Alabama.


82 posted on 12/05/2008 1:39:39 PM PST by ghostrider
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To: GOP_Raider

Sign me up please, thanks


83 posted on 12/05/2008 1:40:40 PM PST by Born In America (Warning: Use liberals only under close conservative supervision.....)
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To: petitfour
Bama is miles ahead of Auburn in that regard, that's for sure! :)

Bama is actually second behind UK in all time SEC wins, but with Gottfried and Pearl as coaches the Vols may reclaim that in a few years.

84 posted on 12/05/2008 1:41:03 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: bamahead; stevie_d_64
football ping

no TX or OK on that map (ok maybe we're not deep south but we do tend to like our football)

85 posted on 12/05/2008 1:41:06 PM PST by smokingfrog (Buy'em cheap. Bury'em deep.)
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To: bamahead

For the last five years, the best college football has been played in the L.A. Coliseum. SC slaughtered the only SEC team with enough balls to play the Trojans. Anyone who schedules the likes of Troy has no business popping off about its superiority.


86 posted on 12/05/2008 1:41:47 PM PST by Looper
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To: bamahead

You can extend it over from Texas up to Nebraska and get a bunch more good ones.


87 posted on 12/05/2008 1:41:50 PM PST by SFR
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To: Windflier
These states are red because of the collective traditional American values of the people here.

Oklahoma was the reddest of the red states in this last election.

Go Sooners!

88 posted on 12/05/2008 1:42:21 PM PST by Ole Okie
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To: Ted

Texas OU championship?


89 posted on 12/05/2008 1:42:44 PM PST by SFR
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To: Cicero

Nice pic! If that doesn’t soothe the savage heart after a hard work week, one isn’t human. Thanks!


90 posted on 12/05/2008 1:42:55 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: bamahead

Eh, not impressed with the SEC. I mean, seriously, lowly Michigan beat SEC powerhouse Florida this calendar year. ;-)


91 posted on 12/05/2008 1:43:52 PM PST by Azzurri
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To: brownsfan
we haven’t had professional football in Cleveland for the last 10+ years.

You might be better off not wanting professional football in Cleveland....

92 posted on 12/05/2008 1:44:23 PM PST by Born In America (Warning: Use liberals only under close conservative supervision.....)
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To: A Strict Constructionist
The same area has a little more than 20% of the NFL not counting the Texas teams.

It takes time for loyalties to develop. 20-30 years ago, all you had was Miami (who won), Atlanta and New Orleans. Folks turned to college football. They stay with college football...

93 posted on 12/05/2008 1:45:49 PM PST by TankerKC (Wal-Mart haters: It IS NOT OK to trample someone.)
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To: Labyrinthos

Thus the drop off of the Academies - sigh

BUT HEY - GO NAVY BEAT ARMY!

USNA’89


94 posted on 12/05/2008 1:46:35 PM PST by reed13 (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.")
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To: Looper
Anyone who schedules the likes of Troy has no business popping off about its superiority

Quit reading the LA Times. Troy is a sleeper that may surprise you.

95 posted on 12/05/2008 1:47:10 PM PST by ghostrider
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To: A Strict Constructionist
You mean like the legacies at Harvard. The gentleman’s C is alive and well in a lot of places.

No question about it, but in order to earn a gentlmen's C, you still have to get in and even as a legatee, that's not going to happen with the average SAT scores and high school GPA of a University of Alabama football player.

96 posted on 12/05/2008 1:49:24 PM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: NoDRodee
This brutally honest piece confirms your post. Odd seeing it on an SEC team's site;

http://www.thestate.com/594/story/611552.html

97 posted on 12/05/2008 1:49:25 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: Joe Boucher

I hope they both lose.

Pelagius of Asturias, Tennessee, Class of 1970.


98 posted on 12/05/2008 1:49:38 PM PST by Pelagius of Asturias
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To: bamahead; Mojave; Citizen Blade; yarddog

....SEC football was very good 50 years ago as noted....I know,I lived in Atlanta in the early 60s when Ga Tech was in the SEC....the difference between then and now is the addition of the black athlete who did not play back then because of segregation....those ball players went to places like Grambling and Florida A&M that had excellant programs BTW....when elite black athletes started going to places like Alabama things skyrocketed in a hurry.


99 posted on 12/05/2008 1:50:46 PM PST by STONEWALLS
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Adolph Rupp got a car, Bear Bryant only got a watch.

And I can count the number of people who know of Adolph Rupp on one hand.

100 posted on 12/05/2008 1:52:14 PM PST by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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