The bolded is 100 percent true.
Its why when even on this site when dmoney or other posters would say int he earlier years that this kid looks like an "sec dt" or whatever i would try to quash it.....but even that seeped in and then it becomes the norm...then gospel.
Every year gms draft a bunch of sec turds just because the kid played at kentucky or utenn and was a high 4 star recruit with sh* t production and tape in hopes of the kid outplaying the bias created my the media on their conference players.
I remember hearing all this talk about how Rousseau’s sacks weren’t real sacks—‘coverage sacks.’ Then, people were worried about his lack of explosiveness to pressure the quarterback……then the following year Travon Walker goes #1 despite having less sacks in 3 years than Rousseau’s 1 year
The year OSU won the college football playoffs, VT was their only loss and they smacked them 35-21. The fact that the other leagues have 10+ win teams doesn’t reasonate with them. As if Kyle Whittingham, Frank Beamer, and Chris Peterson’s squads weren’t tough enough for the SEC lol.
Literally, the first season, in 2012, when Texas A&M moved from the Big12 to the SEC, Kevin Sumlin & them went 11-2. The second season Missouri was in the SEC making the same move from the Big 12, they went 12-2 and won their division. They won their division again the next year going 11-3. Can’t get a much better natural experiment than that.
They also avoid inconvenient truths like the plague. After winning a national championship, Alabama needed Jameson Williams to transfer or else they wouldn’t have been dominant in 2021. To win the national titles in 2015 and 2019, they needed Jacob Coker from the ACC and Joe Burrow from Ohio State.
Like why can two 5th round skill positions guys from ND (RB) and BYU (WR) step into the gold standard NFL organization and be dominant right away? They were smarter than the rest by selecting them, however, if they knew how good these guys were they’d have taken them earlier obviously. Brock Purdy is Mr. Irrelevant however no one stops to think about how big of an indictment that is on every single organization in the league; internally or externally.
If i had more time, I’d do a breakdown of where all the quarterbacks in the league went to school however Daniel Jones had a resurgent season pre-injury while Anthony Richardson can’t complete 50% of his passes then pops off on podcasts about how the NFL is easier than college football lmao.
Neither of the Super Bowl quarterbacks were from the SEC. The Super Bowl MVP went to Wake Forrest and Michigan State. Kelce and Mahomes — not SEC. Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Baker Mayfield, Jared Goff, Geno Smith, Caleb Williams, CJ Stroud, Jordan Love, Aaron Rodgers, Jacoby Brissett, Justin Herbert, Trevor Lawrence, and so on.
The recruiting rankings also warp this whole process because people really believe a 3 star will get turned to dust if they try to tackle a five star. Or that development/system fit/etc are all linear.
