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54 minutes ago, bullzak said:

I bet Louisiana leads every state in per capita great players. Maybe by a lot. 

Haven't seen the stats in a minute, but Louisiana and the VA Beach area used to be a close 1-2.  Can't use all of VA because it fucks up the numbers, but that Hampton/Norfolk/Newport News area is thick with talent. 

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3 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

SMU is a historically sub-.500 team. Aside from Doak Walker and the Pony Express years their post-war history is pretty bleak and that was reflected in the interest conferences showed them. I think they’re doing interesting and positive things now but it’s just not true that Tech hasn’t been a much better and relevant program for the past 75 years or so. 

Yeah Baylor was really crushing it before RG3 came along. So much history there.

All four are comparable programs. Two of us have made the CFP. We'll see if Tech can get there.

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33 minutes ago, ztejas said:

Yeah Baylor was really crushing it before RG3 came along. So much history there.

All four are comparable programs. Two of us have made the CFP. We'll see if Tech can get there.

There’s a lot of money in HP, Lashlee is a solid coach, and you’re in a competitively open P5 conference. Lots of ingredients to maybe win a lot over the long haul. 
 

The statement was history though.  SMU and Rice were the worst SWC programs by a longshot which is precisely why an illegal scheme to pay and recruit was set up in the governor’s office. 
 

Baylor was a perfectly competent SWC program for the better part of 20 years under Grant Teaff— they won conference championships and went to bowl games when that was a real metric of a good season. That’s why they got a Big XII invite where they struggled.  While they struggled in a very tough conference, SMU was at the bottom of really weak ones. 
 

The landscape is upside down and now typically futile programs like Indiana and SMU can compete. 

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Lashlee isn’t worth that kind of money.  SMU is not the big fan base in Dallas, it’s dominated by Texas, Tech, and A&M.  They are in a market full of folks from elsewhere who maintain their ties to Michigan or OU or wherever they’re from, in fact as their students come from all over a lot of their students maintain their home allegiance they grew up with.  They are so small in tv draw they have small corporate support, and until they can gill a stadium the size of Allen hs they’ll be small time.  Thus their support is from a fairly small number of benefactors, so all the dollars for lashlee take away bucks from nil or the program. 
 

same issue for Baylor, TCU, Tulane, etc that just can’t compete with schools that have massive fan support from folks that never went to school there. 

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