re: What We All Knew but Never Bothered to Quantify. SECHQ Heavy on the Gumps.

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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.

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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.