Matt Leinart on what makes CFB different in the South

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Nashville pro teams have probably diminished UT's support there

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South has always been more interested in college football.

A big part in the rise of football in the south has been the south's ability to play prime time games the entire season because the weather is more reasonable.

Obviously all the demographic advantages and what not that have been said have played a huge part as well, but having the southern schools always on the prime time night games has been a huge recruiting advantage for the south.

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Pretty good, but he avoids the elephant in the room (demographics)

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He would have been cancelled for saying this. He likes having a career.

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A big part in the rise of football in the south has been the south's ability to play prime time games the entire season because the weather is more reasonable.

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Early September weather in Tiger Stadium is anything but reasonable.

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Nashville pro teams have probably diminished UT's support there

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Lol nobody gives a frick about the Titans and the Preds have a niche following at best.


There are probably 6 different CFB programs with bigger followings than any pro team in Nashville

I remember this thread was on SEC rant a few months ago and someone said the South was better because our black players are “well bred” and “of good stock”. Which I guess might be technically true, but it sounds kind of racist

It's the ability to play year round and less to do. More time playing translates to better players.

Kids in the deep south start playing football in the yard when they're 5 and 6 years old. If they don't have a yard, they play in the street. I've seen kids in Pritchard playing football on asphalt in the afternoons when I drove home from work. The fricking asphalt.

When you look at kids in poor areas, they're going to be better at stuff like that because they have nothing else to do but play. They don't get a new game for their xbox every time they ask for one. They don't go on vacations. They aren't members at the country club. You go out in the yard and play football, and for a lot of kids this happens 250-300 days per year, with only bad weather or somebody getting in trouble the reason for a day off.

By the time these kids get to high school and college they have taken thousands of reps. It's the same way with soccer in the poor areas of europe and south america.

South Florida, particularly Dade county, is the most competitive youth football scene in the country by a wide margin. They take it very seriously down there from a very young age. Those kids are playing in full pads as early as 5 and 6 years old, and they're being coached very hard at that age.

If you took a 12 year old good football player from pasadena and dropped him into a league in Miami he would quit after the first day if his parents didn't pull him out because the coaches were cussing him like a dog. You need a mean streak to be a good football player. It's a lot more socially acceptable in this part of the world for a coach to be as tough on your son as they need to be. You pull that shite in California and they'll have you arrested.

Most of the great players from that Miami youth football circuit end up playing in the NFL or in trouble with the law. Dade county does it best, but you see that competition all over the southeast. Mobile, Birmingham, New Orleans, Atlanta, etc. Those kids are competing against other really good players from a very young age, and they're getting coached very hard from a very young age.