SEC Football is growing strong
Posted on | January 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
The steel belts loss is the sun belts gain. I am a witness of what can be argued as real economic fact. Having grown up in Youngstown, Ohio has been a rough trick for kids the last thirty or so years. Youngstown was once prided as the heart of the Steel Belt. Thousands of people lost their jobs when the steel industry took a quick path out of Youngstown. Unfortunately, the economy around Youngstown has not been very productive since. People left in droves in the eighties, most going South where the work was. The Steel Belt’s loss was the Sun Belt’s gain, in population, which through the nineties spelled millions of people migrating for good.
Youngstown is a good example of how losing people can cripple sports programs, and more importantly, school systems. The more bodies a football program can try out and evaluate will usually prevail over hoping to get a couple of kids who might be able to catch year to year. In other words, I am a strong believer in the theory that “the more gum you throw at a wall, the better a chance something will stick”. Youngstown boasted having The Rayen School, Ursuline, Mooney, East, Chaney, South, Woodrow Wilson, and North High Schools to currently just having four schools. The amount of schools is presently half of what it was thirty years ago.
It really is no wonder the SEC has emerged as the premium conference in college football. They have the best “stay here at home” package to offer potential recruits. The high schools of the Sun Belt may not be better, but are definitely more than the Steel Belt. With excess talent to pick from, the SEC will continue to get better recruits than the Big 10. It really is a miracle that Coach Tressel goes after the best of what is here rather than what is left to pick from the South.
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May 5th, 2009 @ 2:07 pm
What an excuse maker. The sunbelt has dominated the steelbelt since we began competing. The only thing that has changed is a playoff system. We have always had better talent, better teams , and better coaches and now it’s there for all to see. Before the BCS it was one man’s opinion against another. If you think population has caused this you need to revaluate. The north still has way more people to pull from, not to mention 30-40 years ago when we had one tenth of your population we still beat up on steelbelt football. Face it we always have and we always will dominate college football. Hey don’t worry you still have soccer.