Why has the SEC dominated CFB and will it continue?

Off of the top of my head, the whole over signing thing comes to mind. Couple that with admitting anyone with a core body temperature of 98.6 and you get SSSSEEEEEEECEEEEEE dominance.

Does it matter? The only time it matters for the B1G is when we play for the National Championship, and anyone can win in a one-game set-up. 

I don't think the disparity will grow, as oversigning and unethical practices will slowly start to be eroded away by the NCAA, one advantage of the SEC will dissipate. Also, as more and more players start to really focus on football, the top level of elite players will grow and grow, allowing middle class schools to start to build up its talent base and allow it to compete with the big boys. This has happened to a degree in BBall as mid-level schools like Butler and Gonzaga can compete and win on a National scale. 

Pressure from Florida and Georgia will start to bite into the over signing advantage. Assistants will leave and enthusiasm will wane

Everyone believes the SEC is better?

Here is (IMO) the key statement in the article:

"Each of the last five years, the SEC has led all conferences in NFL Draft picks."

Those numbers don't generally lie. Looking into why (oversigning, JUCO-mining, etc.) they get those players is another story.

Absolutely no way the gap between the SEC and the country grows, especially if the NCAA ever puts strict rules down that actually force them to recruit at the same rate as the rest of the nation. Yes they have premier coaches and they're located in a talent pool, but that doesn't mean that the rest of the country (especially the PAC12, B1G and Big12) can't close the gap if oversigning is stopped.

as long as the SEC has the ability to oversign they will hold a big advantage. i think overtime the playing field will be leveled as the ncaa will start to hammer down on this issue.

still, the sec will always have a natural advantage as the best players in the country come from the south traditionally, and schools like florida, lsu and alabama have the greatest access to them.

But I don't really care a ton about the B1G, as much as I do about Michigan at least.  At the beginning of the article, every time the author said "Look at..." budgets, coaching salaries, crowds, talent - I felt like M stacks up just fine.  So while I would agree that the SEC dominates other conferences, I think M should be fine so long as we dominate the B1G, which we should.  The oversigning and JUCO thing is much more clearly a problem for us specifically, but that could change.

Either way, I don't want to ride the conference's coattails.  They ought to ride ours.

Like it or not, the southern states by and large have an enormous advantage in HS football talent.  It's hard to honestly compare the Midwest talent base to that of the deep south when it comes to football.  SEC schools have talented rosters.  Couple that with the win-at-all-costs mentality of most SEC schools, and this is the result.  

Oversigning 

Other underhanded tactics like excessive medical hardships, paying players, etc.

Never having to worry about academics

It says Brady Hoke makes $3.2 million a year, making him the 8th highest paid coach in all of college football. He would be worth every penny but I have no idea where they got that number. Is that right?

IMO, the reasons that the SEC has been so successful are:

1. Oversigning

2. Coaching payroll

3. Questionable academic standards

4. Spring HS football in the South

5. ESPN’s love of the SEC

6. JUCO’s

7. Medical hardships

8. Unethical treatment of marginal sophomore/junior recruits

Let’s face it, SEC stands for Stretching the Ethics Conference

There are more very large and very quick defensive linemen in SEC country than in any other part of the nation. Just check out how many DLs have been drafted out of LSU alone over the last 10 years compared to Michigan—the difference is stark.

The Whole lost to Iowa State arguement is bogus to me. Yes Alabama lost to Top Ranked LSU on there home turf and thats a more "impressive" lost on paper than OK state's lost to Iowa State. But it wouldn't matter who Ok State lost to in hindsight. The pollsters were already talking about a rematch twenty seconds after the game!!!! (At that point still 3 Undefeated Teams). But lets say Ok State beat Iowa State and lost to Oklahoma or Baylor instead... now even though thats a "quality" loss (baylor (road game) and Oklahoma (top 10 team) ) the media would have still tryed to peg a LSU-ALA rematch. The luster of the SEC helped Alabama get in... look at the numbers Ok State had a harder schedule, played more ranked teams, beat more bowl teams, and won by a greater margin... but the SEC trumped the number...

...now that ESPN and other otufits have added numerous layers to the myth,  the only direct way to start dismantling the myth of SEC superiority is to simply go out there are start beating them.

Easier said than done obviously, but it seems to me that a fair number of the so-called insiders see only the field, and push the debate regarding the strategy of schools (i.e., the oversiging, the abysmally low standards, the medical hardship, and everything else that has been mentioned already) to the backburner, for clearly this is an ethical debate to be conducted in gridiron academia, not something the NCAA should actually, you know, ask about, at least in their view. 

I think that might be an issue with the public at large too - most people just want  their team to win, and the details are unimportant (ref. file "Ohio Fans, Moral Underpinnings'), so the best way to get people to, well, "get it", is to start creating situations where SEC teams mysteriously get an 'L" here and there. Eventually, someone will wonder  what is going on inside their program...maybe. 

Sorry if someone else has already brought it up, but I think culturally football is way more important to people in the south.  The pressure to win exerted by fans whose senses of identity and self-worth are directly proportional to the success of their favorite program is immense.  Imagine a 12-team conference where one of the more reserved fanbases would be the Buckeyes.  All the rule-dodging and truth-stretching that goes on down there is directly driven, IMO, by this pressure--totally devoid of perspective--to win.  At all costs. 

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How are they not hurt by APR issues? They can't all be medical hardships, no?