The 25 Year Winter Episode 3: North leaks talent, South reaps advantages as SEC asserts dominance
College football turned South because the SEC and other Southern schools kept their best players home, and they plucked some great recruits from the North.
Kings of the North College Football
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Show Notes
As the SEC took control of college football, demographic shifts helped fuel that dominance by ensuring the region was flush with a large percentage of the country's best high school football prospects. To compound the issue, the North started leaking too much of its best talent.
What did it amount to? Sustained success for the South.
In Episode 3 of The 25 Year Winter, Doug Lesmerises and Bill Landis examine how recruiting realities combined with more Northern shortcomings contributed to the South's reign over college football from 1998-2022. The South had the better prospects, and was more aggressive in how it built rosters.This is the players episode.
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Producer: Michael Henahan.
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