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Why 70% of top recruits come from the south
Posted on 8/12/12 at 6:08 pm
Posted on 8/12/12 at 6:08 pm
Saturday down south
Interesting. Nothing we didn't know, but things are slow.
Interesting. Nothing we didn't know, but things are slow.
This post was edited on 8/12/12 at 6:09 pm
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Posted on 8/12/12 at 6:18 pm to Duckie
Lol at some comments. I just knew dumbasses would get all sensitive about it being "racist" or "stereotypes" despite all the facts... 
This post was edited on 8/12/12 at 6:19 pm
Posted on 8/12/12 at 6:25 pm to deuce985
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92% of the top SEC recruiting classes are from the South
Posted on 8/12/12 at 7:23 pm to Duckie
Selective breeding
Posted on 8/12/12 at 9:25 pm to Boudin
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Selective breeding
very, very doubtful
Posted on 8/12/12 at 9:27 pm to CamdenTiger
He's saying that 92% of the powerhouse teams in the SEC come from the South...not sure why that's so hard to understand. LSU is made up of mostly players in SEC territory.
Posted on 8/12/12 at 9:54 pm to Duckie
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Why 70% of top recruits come from the south
According to ESPN? They're notoriously biased towards the south in their recruiting rankings. It's probably more like 50-55% in any other recruiting service. Still impressive though. And we all know the reasons.
Posted on 8/12/12 at 10:02 pm to deuce985
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He's saying that 92% of the powerhouse teams in the SEC come from the South...not sure why that's so hard to understand.
Uh, cause all the powerhouse teams in the SEC are from the South...
Posted on 8/12/12 at 10:11 pm to CamdenTiger
Yes. Which is where the powerhouse SEC teams get the majority of their recruits...which is why 70% of the top recruits are in the South and why the SEC is so dominate in CFB...
Posted on 8/12/12 at 11:01 pm to SlowFlowPro
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very, very doubtful
A couple hundred years of slavery would suggest otherwise
Posted on 8/12/12 at 11:05 pm to Boudin
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Selective breeding
Down South we call it drunk as hell breeding
Posted on 8/13/12 at 1:00 am to Boudin
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A couple hundred years of slavery would suggest otherwise
Please link to the study and your methodology that indicates selective breeding had any causal relationship to the dominance of the black athlete. Your only evidence is that there was slavery for hundreds of years in the South. If you think that suggests anything without further extrapolation you are mistaken.
Posted on 8/13/12 at 7:53 am to Boudin
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A couple hundred years of slavery would suggest otherwise
and it's been like 150 years since slavery ended. let's not act like slavery ended a few years ago and there wasn't a long period of time that eroded any potential eugenic effects
Posted on 8/13/12 at 7:57 am to SlowFlowPro
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there wasn't a long period of time that eroded any potential eugenic effects
how much time would it take for the effects to dissipate?
Posted on 8/13/12 at 8:01 am to LsuTool
no idea, but i'd imagine similar time periods going each way would cancel each other out
it also doesn't explain why west africans are super athletic in today's sports
it also doesn't explain why west africans are super athletic in today's sports
Posted on 8/13/12 at 9:19 am to SlowFlowPro
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and it's been like 150 years since slavery ended. let's not act like slavery ended a few years ago and there wasn't a long period of time that eroded any potential eugenic effects
ANY eugenic effects?
I don't know. If we're working from a premise that there were eugenic effects (which i'm not claiming or denying), i don't think it would be fair to say any effects have been eroded.
Booker T. Washington was born into slavery and he died in 1915. His progeny alive today are essentially only a few generations removed from slavery.
Then, you'd have to think there was some degree of selective breeding happening organically after 1865, right?
This post was edited on 8/13/12 at 9:27 am
Posted on 8/13/12 at 9:21 am to CamdenTiger
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92% of the top SEC recruiting classes are from the South
Not sure of the context, but perhaps they are saying that 92% of players in the top SEC recruiting classes are from the South.
Posted on 8/13/12 at 9:32 am to ChewyDante
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Please link to the study and your methodology that indicates selective breeding had any causal relationship to the dominance of the black athlete. Your only evidence is that there was slavery for hundreds of years in the South. If you think that suggests anything without further extrapolation you are mistaken.
I've tried to find information like this before with no luck.
If anybody can provide a link to any info regarding this (selective breeding, eugenics during slavery in the US), it would be much appreciated.
Posted on 8/13/12 at 9:33 am to ChewyDante
double post
This post was edited on 8/13/12 at 9:36 am
Posted on 8/13/12 at 11:04 pm to inadaze
quote:and immediately destroyed.
If anybody can provide a link to any info regarding this (selective breeding, eugenics during slavery in the US), it would be much appreciated.
No academic or government funded studies into subjects like this are permitted. Anything with the potential to produce "sensitive" results (or "insensitive", as the case may be) is squashed. Pretty sad, that fear of truth can dominate the very aspects of our society that should be most immune to such fears.
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