Keep the SEC Southern

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IF we're picking ideal additions to the SEC--I'd rather add Florida State & Clemson to the East and TCU (since A&M already joined) to the West...and, can we offer to trade Vandy to the ACC for Ga. Tech?
 
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rockytop9808 said:
Hey bro, I don't know about you, but I live in Virginia around those media writers (and I know many, many people from NoVa! what do you know!) and can confirm that you know jack-sh*t.

Nobody cares about UVa football. At all. Most in DC don't care about Maryland football. Northern Virginia/DC is Hokie territory.
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DC has such a geographically heterogeneous population it's hard to really get a lock on what college teams people care about. On top of that DC isn't really a college town at all.

Just getting a jive from going to sports bars on saturdays versus sundays... hardly anyone cares about any college sports. VaTech didn't even sell out FedEx Field last year in their game against Boise State. For a metro area population that's about 500,000 less than the entire state of Tennessee that's not very good.


I saw slightly more if not the same level of coverage of the Terps than VaTech. If the Terps actually get decent under Edsall, expect DC to be a Terps town. But that's about 10% of the total focus of DC towards sports. It's a Pro town through and through.
 
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I don't have a problem with southern pride. I have some myself. But it quickly turns to shame when I hear someone drawing on our Confederate past as a source of that pride.
 
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DC Vol said:
DC has such a heterogeneous population it's hard to really get a lock on what college teams people care about. On top of that DC isn't really a college town at all.

Just getting a jive from going to sports bars on saturdays versus sundays... hardly anyone cares about any college sports. VaTech didn't even sell out FedEx Field last year in their game against Boise State. For a metro area population that's about 500,000 less than the entire state of Tennessee that's not very good.


I saw slightly more if not the same level of coverage of the Terps than VaTech. If the Terps actually get decent under Edsall, expect DC to be a Terps town. But that's about 10% of the total focus of DC towards sports. It's a Pro town through and through.
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Hampton Roads (1.7 million strong) doesn't care about college sports either.
 
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Maryland guy here. No one seems to want us. Up north we might as well be Arkansas, and down south we might as well be Mass. :/
 
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WesternKyVol said:
I don't have a problem with southern pride. I have some myself. But it quickly turns to shame when I hear someone drawing on our Confederate past as a source of that pride.
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I particularly like the "Confederate Pride" in East TN, which was basically a Union outpost 150 years ago.

History is history and unfortunately, a long and costly civil war is part of it. However, there are some who don't have a single connection the the Confederacy who exhibit the "Confederate Pride". WTH is up with that?
 
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BloodRUNZOrange said:
well i know oklahoma is not really southern...they are about as far as i would go.
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Do you even know how to read a map? Norman, OK is farther south then Knoxville, Nashville, Fayetteville, and Lexington. I guess it depends on your definition of "southern"
 
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chili said:
I particularly like the "Confederate Pride" in East TN, which was basically a Union outpost 150 years ago.

History is history and unfortunately, a long and costly civil war is part of it. However, there are some who don't have a single connection the the Confederacy who exhibit the "Confederate Pride". WTH is up with that?
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East Tennesseans celebrating the confederacy makes about as much sense as Catholics, Jews, and Black folks celebrating the KKK.
 
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MikeVol44 said:
IF we're picking ideal additions to the SEC--I'd rather add Florida State & Clemson to the East and TCU (since A&M already joined) to the West...and, can we offer to trade Vandy to the ACC for Ga. Tech?
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Obvious choice if we want to help our Vols in the future. Add Wake Forest to East to penetrate some North Carolina market. That helps our conference academics, gives us another W in football to match Vandy, and they are competitive as Vandy in BB. Why do we want Oklahome and VT? The SEC is Southeastern Conference, not south west conference. How many people here want to make the football so much better than it is and cause more losses? How would we feel if we had to play Ala, Ok, A&M on the road and our east schedule?
 
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superdave1984 said:
Do you even know how to read a map? Norman, OK is farther south then Knoxville, Nashville, Fayetteville, and Lexington. I guess it depends on your definition of "southern"
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Well, I'm sure Las Cruces, New Mexico is further south than any of those places, but we're not likely to add New Mexico State to the conference for that reason. Being in the South and having a southern geographic position are obviously two very different things.
 
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