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<blockquote data-quote="Carober18" data-source="post: 167946" data-attributes="member: 1866"><p>I hate the conference pride thing, to be honest. The reality is that the SEC is the best conference in football, presumably because it has more state universities in the southern states (which produce far better athletes per capita), and state universities have the most alums. But the margin that media suggests exists is a complete joke that caters to sidewalk fans because they pay the bills. The reality probably is that once you get outside of the top 25 in a class, the next 500 are comparable, and the next 1,000 after that are very close behind. High school football and determining how those players will perform 2-3 years down the road is substantially more inefficient and is less reliable than the MLB draft in many cases, I think, which means highly unreliable. No one wants to believe that though, because the people who pay and receive money for prognosticating that information lose out if that is true. I do not care whether the ACC has been "3rd" or "1st" or "5th" (no slight to you, GTNavy--it is easy to get frustrated by these people), but the truth is the ACC produces a lot of NFL talent, the ACC has underperformed the past 10 years, and media runs on momentum and past information and is typically a general summary of the past 3-4 years but purports to be useful information about the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Carober18, post: 167946, member: 1866"] I hate the conference pride thing, to be honest. The reality is that the SEC is the best conference in football, presumably because it has more state universities in the southern states (which produce far better athletes per capita), and state universities have the most alums. But the margin that media suggests exists is a complete joke that caters to sidewalk fans because they pay the bills. The reality probably is that once you get outside of the top 25 in a class, the next 500 are comparable, and the next 1,000 after that are very close behind. High school football and determining how those players will perform 2-3 years down the road is substantially more inefficient and is less reliable than the MLB draft in many cases, I think, which means highly unreliable. No one wants to believe that though, because the people who pay and receive money for prognosticating that information lose out if that is true. I do not care whether the ACC has been "3rd" or "1st" or "5th" (no slight to you, GTNavy--it is easy to get frustrated by these people), but the truth is the ACC produces a lot of NFL talent, the ACC has underperformed the past 10 years, and media runs on momentum and past information and is typically a general summary of the past 3-4 years but purports to be useful information about the future. [/QUOTE]
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