Inside the South’s Unfair Advantage in College Football

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  @Maapify · 10 months ago · pinned

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• C.

  @c.i.demann3069 · 10 months ago

  European soccer fans have never understood how American professional teams can just pack up everything and move to a new city. &nbsp;It&apos;s because their favorite club -- Man City, Real Madrid, Juventus -- isn&apos;t a franchise, it&apos;s a civic institution. &nbsp;It could never, ever move. &nbsp; College football is the American version of that. &nbsp;Yeah, sure, the Raiders can move to a new city, but the Crimson Tide? &nbsp;The Buckeyes? &nbsp;The Ducks? &nbsp;They will never, ever move. &nbsp;They&apos;re civic institutions, just like Manchester United or Barcelona.

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• OM

  @Omega_Effect1ve · 10 months ago (edited)

  I still can&apos;t believe we have Pacific coast colleges playing in the ACC— &nbsp;which stands for the &apos;Atlantic Coast Conference&apos;

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• HO

  @horror7927 · 10 months ago

  Nick Saban said a long time ago when he got to LSU said &apos;take the I10 from Florida to Texas and you will recruit a championship team&apos;

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• JR

  @jrad410 · 10 months ago

  A few other things <br>1. Over 50 percent of the US black population is in the south, a sport where they make up 65-70 percent of players<br>2 HS football culture is strong on another level that local universities feed off of.<br>3 the SEC itself became regional pride so there was a push for players to stay local

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• JO

  @johnathanholifield2552 · 10 months ago (edited)

  Great video. However, you omitted a huge factor for the South&apos;s football dominance. That&apos;s the presence of two college football tracks: 1) major college, and 2) the presence of HBCUs. While the major colleges were segregated until the 60s and 70s, the football culture that you so accurately describe was also being simultaneously nurtured at HBCUs, which are overwhelmingly located in the South. A love of football was growing among Black populations at the same time it was growing in the segregated White population. The value of growing the football passion along two concurrent tracks cannot be understated. The opportunities HBCUs afforded many Black athletes to continue playing football after HS was huge. Such opportunities really were not available in South or North at segregated or predominantly White schools.

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• PE

  @PeachyCarnehan-c9e · 10 months ago

  Narrator sounds like he’s from the South. South Ontario.

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• JA

  @jamespyle777 · 10 months ago

  There are some exceptions, the NFL&apos;s entrance to the South in Atlanta and New Orleans coincided with Georgia Tech&apos;s and Tulane&apos;s departures from the SEC.

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• DR

  @DrBeauHightower · 10 months ago

  So you&apos;re not gonna say the REAL reason 😂

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• SH

  @shotyme2825 · 10 months ago

  &quot;As of the 2025 NFL season, Georgia produces the most NFL players per capita, with one player for every 74,908 residents. Following Georgia are Louisiana and Mississippi.&quot;-- AI Mode

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• GA

  @gacaptain · 10 months ago (edited)

  Like the man said it starts grass roots at the high school level. I grew up in a rural Georgia county with one big town and one high school. About 50,000 people there. If you haven’t been down south I probably can’t even describe to you the way that whole entire county got behind that high school football team. Every game the stadium was packed full with thousands of local fans. It was an event that teenagers wanted to attend to socialize with all their friends and meet kids from rival towns there for the game. The star players on the team were household names throughout the county. The local newspaper covered the teams exploits as much if not more than anything else. Many of your favorite local businesses sponsored the team. There was a popular weekly radio show covering the games every week. The main broadcaster for the show was like a local celebrity. During homecoming games the town would throw a big homecoming parade. Only the annual Christmas parade was bigger. If the team went to a state championship win or lose the whole town celebrated as if they had gone to the Superbowl itself. And all of this was generational. Players on the field had been coached on how to play the game by their fathers since little kids. The same way their fathers were coached by their fathers. You would see kid on the field playing with his father and grandfather in the stands cheering him on. Now multiply all of this times 6 or 7 because the 5 surrounding counties in my region were all like this too. Then you have multiple regions in the state. So considering all this is the source of college talent in the South there should be no wondering how it wound up 🆙 on top.

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• EV

  @Evan-hockputer · 10 months ago

  Do one about baseball in Japan

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