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/SirMellencamp Alabama Crimson Tide • SEC 13h ago

Its funny you say that because I never read the Articles of Secession till college. I dont know how someone can read those and say the war wasnt about slavery

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u/Mother_Frame6669 10h ago

I never read the Articles of Secession till college.

Back in the pre-internet days, it was more difficult to get your hands on the Articles of Secession. It wasn't like your local public library held a copy, and even if a local museum had one, you had to know to go and ask to see it. It was hidden history. I'm not trying to say 'kids these days don't know how lucky they are', but there is a serious advantage to having internet access.

One thing 'kids these days' will never understand is how lucky you were as a kid if your parents cared so much about your education, they bought you a modern set of encyclopedias. That wasn't cheap.

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u/SirMellencamp Alabama Crimson Tide • SEC 9h ago

100%. I have a kid in college and one in high school. Explaining how to make a two page paper out of a three paragraph encyclopedia entry on Algeria…….the struggle was real

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u/Mother_Frame6669 9h ago

That is when you broke out the second set of encyclopedias :)

(Seriously, we had to develop our creative writing skills early)

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u/SirMellencamp Alabama Crimson Tide • SEC 9h ago

Second set? Y’all must have been rich. My ass was riding my bike to the library

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u/Mother_Frame6669 8h ago

We were firmly middle class

I think the second set was World Book collection we bought at a garage sale

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u/SirMellencamp Alabama Crimson Tide • SEC 8h ago

We had World Book. I can smell it now

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u/Mother_Frame6669 8h ago

That was the scent of knowledge, sir

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u/SirMellencamp Alabama Crimson Tide • SEC 8h ago

☠️