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[TopFrog]

ESPN: What separates the Big 12 and the SEC?

By David Ubben

The discussion comes up every year, especially in years like 2008, 2009 and 2011 when the Big 12 mounts a serious threat at toppling the SEC's run of national title wins.

So what separates the two leagues? TCU coach Gary Patterson was asked the question this weekend. He's a Big 12 newcomer, and his answer confirms what you've probably heard before, but from one more source.

"There are a lot of good players every where else. If you look at the NFL per capita, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi they put out more NFL players than anywhere else in the country," Patterson told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "It's the body types in the regions of the United States that make a difference, too. You are going to find the skill players, but what we don't have as much in this state is the size of bodies of offensive and defensive linemen that the southeast part of the United States has. It's the gene pool." ...

http://espn.go.com/b...-12-and-the-sec

[roddog]

so the big diff in the sec and the big 12 is the generations of ex slave offspring that are being brought up in the sec country?

sounds about right

[Stiff Arm Frog]

The cultures of the two leagues are completely different.  The fact that the Aggies wanted in and the Sooners didn't says a lot.

[Gehörnter Frosch]

roddog, on 13 March 2012 - 09:30 AM, said:

so the big diff in the sec and the big 12 is the generations of ex slave offspring that are being brought up in the sec country?

sounds about right

That was exactly what I thought as I was reading it.

Not very PC...but is the truth.

[SuperToad]

roddog, on 13 March 2012 - 09:30 AM, said:

so the big diff in the sec and the big 12 is the generations of ex slave offspring that are being brought up in the sec country?

sounds about right

As bad as it sounds, yes that pretty much sums it up haha

[Sancho]

Obesity rates in the southeast are very high, Louisiana and Mississippi are two of the highest. Large people make large children and the diet doesn’t help.

[froghair]

How many SEC linemen does it take to make a grade point?

[KingmanIII]

[BleedNPurple]

froghair, on 13 March 2012 - 04:59 PM, said:

How many SEC linemen does it take to make a grade point?

Well that's a point!  And can we see a comparative analysis in graduation rates amongst football players in the various leagues out there?  I'm too lazy to dig this up right now but am thinking our guys go off to be in upper management or entrepreneurs and the SEC guys go on to work for the sugar daddiies that brought them to Auburn.....enter name here

[Vlade Divac]

BleedNPurple, on 13 March 2012 - 10:15 PM, said:

... the SEC guys go on to work for the sugar daddiies that brought them to Auburn.....enter name here

Nm.

[hindry]

i feel very confident that the last sports leader to talk genetics got his [Craig James] run off

and excorited in the national media

unless he is suggesting that pollacks in birmingham  are bigger than dago's in austin.

which of course he is not...

i sure hope this slides past media types..but i dont think it will

get ready for a shitstorm