re: New NCAA Academic Standards - How bad is this going to hurt us?

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This hasn't been talked about enough. It's going to decimate SEC recruiting a good bit.

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One would need more information to predict which conferences will be impacted the most by the new standards. The southeast would have to have a disproportionate number of academically ineligible athletes for the impact to be more severe than in other regions. If you look at the prime regions for producing college football players most of them are regions with schools that do not perform up to expectations. So the SEC may be hit a little harder than some other conferences, but probably not as much as some fear.

Relationships with junior college coaches are going to become more important. Maybe LSU should begin taking one or two JC's a year as a relationship building strategy for the future when more of the elite talent will have to go the JC route.