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Posted on 4/20/14 at 11:05 am to CITWTT
It's useless, citwtt. They're too stupid to get the point. Just tell them that Brondo has what they need, and move on.
Posted on 4/20/14 at 11:12 am to CITWTT
What does football recruiting have to do with gymnastics?
Posted on 4/20/14 at 11:13 am to CITWTT
CITWTT- it might be that Football is the money supplier for universities other sports(Gymnastics). The SEC has an advantage in the weather being nicer in football, giving them more money to give to the other sports. The programs in the SEC as well as the B12 have nice facilities in gymnastics. You want to go were there is nice facilities as a gymnast. 
Posted on 4/20/14 at 11:28 am to CITWTT
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Schools in the south are said to have an advantage in playing football because of the weather we enjoy when it's hotter than hell outside in the summer and fall months.
I have never heard this. Hot weather during summer camp is a bad thing, not an advantage. The heat challenge has been lessened lately (to a point) with air conditioned indoor practice fields.
I have heard northern schools complain that southern schools have a big weather advantage in baseball, and they have a point. When baseball training begins, yankee schools' baseball fields are often still covered in snow. Tough titty, the milk's still good.
Lastly, if your football program makes a lot of money, that money can be used to upgrade gymnastics facilities, which attracts the best gymnasts, which is what you are seeing in the Super Six this year.
Posted on 4/20/14 at 11:34 am to CITWTT
This is a pretty stupid comparison, since the best of the best players have to play 3 years college football. In gymnastics, the best of the best are retired before they are college age. Out of the 8 Olympians for women's gymnastics, 0 were from the Southeast.
Posted on 4/20/14 at 12:37 pm to CITWTT
Thanks for the laugh
Posted on 4/20/14 at 1:21 pm to HonoraryCoonass
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Hot weather during summer camp is a bad thing, not an advantage. The heat challenge has been lessened lately (to a point) with air conditioned indoor practice fields.
The weather advantage is more about having longer periods that you can be outside, really in the south you can be outside year round pretty much. and its about HS kids and younger developing not the colleges. But beyond that some Northern and MW states have put stricter limits on the amount of time kids can play and practice.
The biggest advantage the SEC has is demographics and now SEC schools have built up their programs.
Posted on 4/20/14 at 5:34 pm to CITWTT
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Schools in the south are said to have an advantage in playing football because of the weather we enjoy when it's hotter than hell outside in the summer and fall months. How does that explain that three of the six teams vying for the gymnastics title today are from the SEC? Isn't that an indoors sport where the environment is controlled at every school across the nation? Geaux Tigers today!!! It is time to win our first crown.
I guess this is similar to the fact that teams in a very small section of the northeastern U.S. have an advantage when it comes to playing college basketball.
Posted on 4/20/14 at 8:28 pm to CITWTT
Better coaches.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 1:51 am to CITWTT
Universities in the South have an advantage in recruiting athletes w/i their region. Here's what I've noticed after having resided in 3 non-Southern states (Michigan, Nebraska & California: the really talented athletes are spread out in more sports. Therefore, fewer of them concentrate on FB, especially in high school. Soccer is a varsity high school sport in far more schools in those states compared to LA. A large of schools in MI have ice hockey; the same goes for lacrosse, golf & tennis in CA. Friends of mine from Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania & Oregon have told me the same about the schools they attended & where their kids go now. I'm sure that's why LA, MS & other southern states have disproportionately larger #s of NFL players than states w/i larger populations like IL, NY, PA, OH, etc. Also, the general attraction to high school FB in LA, TX & other Southern states is much higher than here in CA. There's more public clout here for FB players where very few, if any, people outside of family & friends of players attend games.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:07 am to CITWTT
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Schools in the south are said to have an advantage in playing football because of the weather we enjoy when it's hotter than hell outside in the summer and fall months.
All of these "reasons" college football is better in the south are just ways of dancing around the correct explanation that Jimmy the Greek gave over 30 years ago.
Proportionately, black males are better natural athletes than white males (just look at the black/white ratio in the NFL). The southern states tend to have a proportionately larger number of black people than other states in the U.S. Couple that with the fact that in the more rural southern states, boys tend to play football moreso than sports like basketball in large nothern cites like NYC or Chicago, and you get overall better football in the south.
This isn't rocket science. It's just people being afraid to call it like it is for fear of being label as a racist.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:09 am to CITWTT
Posted on 4/21/14 at 9:14 am to The Mick
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What does football recruiting have to do with gymnastics?
A lot!
I think April Burkholder single handedly landed the LSU recruiting class of 2009
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:14 pm to Alt26
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"Proportionately, black males are better natural athletes than white males (just look at the black/white ratio in the NFL). "
Black youths gravitate to football & basketball b/c those sports are highly valued in their social circles. If Blacks are inherently superior athletes, why aren't they dominating baseball, hockey, soccer & other sports as well? Their over-representation in the NFL & NBA is due to cultural preferences, not generations are selective breeding.
Posted on 4/21/14 at 4:29 pm to tigerfan in bamaland
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Southern girls bend.
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