I agree but 38% rep when it should be less than 7% is statistically significant even when considering office location.

The Mississippi schools(2 & 3 hour drive) and UT (4 hrs) arent that far and they are actually UNDER represented.

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—no one who didn’t graduate from a school in Alabama would choose to move there

Thats not a good assumption. People move all over for work and the State of Alabama isnt so particularly displeasing that it would have that much effect. I mean, youre not required to marry your sister and its not Alaska or even Minnesota.

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One reasonable solution might be not to hire anyone with an affiliation to ANY SEC school.

I am ALL for this. In fact, Id like to see it moved out of any and all SEC States. Virginia, North Carolina or Oklahoma would be good options. Virginia and NC are near USC but USC historically sucks and those States also have many transplants that arent going to be connected regionally. Oklahoma could have some TAMU fans but with so many schools in the region, many being other Texas and Big 12 schools that likely loathe TAMU, youre just as likely to get applicants that dont give two shits about any SEC schools.

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But even then, the emoloyees’ children would inevitably go to the state school and the employees would develop a tie to the school.

I dont understand. Employees from a region outside the SEC would likely have their family members at schools outside the conference. Besides, they already have requirements on the officiating crews that you or your family members cant be a graduate of a school youre officiating. Why cant we apply that to all SEC employees too?

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Just accept the fact that the league office will have a disproportionate representation of graduates from the state where it is located.

No. Eff dat noize son! We should always strive for equality in sports. Cant have certain teams playing with a builtin advantage.

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Posted by tigercross

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Posted on 11/29/17 at 10:17 pm to nola000

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I dont understand. Employees from a region outside the SEC would likely have their family members at schools outside the conference.

My point was that if the office was in Birmingham or Nashville or Atlanta and the conference only hired Jimmys and Joes who graduated from OSU, Clemson, Michigan, etc. eventually a lot Jimmy’s and Joe’s kids would grow up and more likely than not choose to go to Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, or Georgia since they would get in-state tuition there. As a result of their kids going to the school, the guys at the office would develop biases. Parents adopt second fandoms of teams based on where their kids and money go all the time.

As far as the geography—top graduates from SEC schools can get hired in Houston, Dallas, Nashville, ATL, etc. Birmingham is pretty far down the list of cities where they want to work unless they already have ties to the area.

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