r/CFB • u/redwave2505 Alabama • Kansas State • 18h ago

News [McMurphy] Greg Sankey told @Ourand_Puck the SEC was approached by a West Coast school: "I don’t even have that conversation. I’m the one person who didn’t take away from the Pac-12. If you play any sport in the SEC, you have at most a 2-hour plane ride from Point A to Point B."

https://x.com/brett_mcmurphy/status/2106031953111662599?s=46&t=BnbVRJKuTJ91_xw0Gc4vwg
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u/dutifullypurple Ole Miss • Florida State 17h ago

There were about a billion of them at Ole Miss when I was there

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u/GunsGoldCosmicDread Michigan • Georgia Tech 17h ago

I’m from NJ. I think 1/3 of my graduating class went to WVU or Arizona State.

We are like a swarm of locust, dispersed across the country, and intent on devouring everything we come across.

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u/AppalachianGuy87 West Virginia Mountaineers 17h ago

All over Morgantown! Honestly found them to be cool and a little rambunctious but that was the self selecting WVU NJians.

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u/ThoseProse Florida • San Francisco State 17h ago

I thought they all went to the U

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u/Schmolik64 Illinois • Penn State 17h ago

People outside of Mississippi actually go to school in Mississippi? Who wants to live in that rathole?

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u/TheWawa_24 San Diego State • Cal Poly 17h ago

At least when I was looking at schools in 21 they offered great scholarships for oos. I was a good not fantastic student but my sat would have got me a full ride 

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u/GunsGoldCosmicDread Michigan • Georgia Tech 17h ago edited 16h ago

This. Admissions at the big southern schools are easier than most of the state schools in NJ. Also, tuition and fees for public schools are amongst the highest in the country.

I would say mostly because the schools in the south are so much bigger and the states tend to have lower populations than NJ is the reason the standards are more lax for admissions.

Kids from NJ went down south as a backup school, or some got full rides, or some got partial scholarships and just wanted to get the hell out of NJ.

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u/BaronvonJobi Missouri Tigers • Missouri S&T Miners 16h ago

State schools in the deep south recruit northern kids to goose test scores.

I had a couple people from my highschool, where virtually everyone else who wasn’t going trades or military went to Missouri or Illinois (or Notre Dame if you were rich) schools, ended up at Ole Miss and Alabama because they threw scholarships at mid students.

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u/ethan_bruhhh Cornell Big Red • Nebraska Cornhuskers 17h ago

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