At times, it's difficult to tell what comes first in the South: God, Family, or SEC football. SEC fans have high opinions of their conference, the genetic gifts of their athletes, and the brand and traditions of their football. And rightly so. The conference, especially recently, has been deep. 2007 looks to be no different. If your a fan of college football, it's difficult to dismiss the passion of the SEC fan base even when it's easy to dismiss the silliness of some of their bolder superiority claims.
However, if you're a fan of a team that happens to play in the Big Ten, or worse yet, if you're a fan of the Big Ten, you have a bigger problem than SEC hyperbole: a conference commissioner doing you no PR favors.
Dan Wetzel's skewering of the Commish needs no further comment (though the reference to this kind of non-sense typically coming out of South Bend is a smiler.) But Delany is reasonably educated man, which is puzzling, for one would think he might have come across these numbers at some point:
However, if you're a fan of a team that happens to play in the Big Ten, or worse yet, if you're a fan of the Big Ten, you have a bigger problem than SEC hyperbole: a conference commissioner doing you no PR favors.
Dan Wetzel's skewering of the Commish needs no further comment (though the reference to this kind of non-sense typically coming out of South Bend is a smiler.) But Delany is reasonably educated man, which is puzzling, for one would think he might have come across these numbers at some point:
Years humans have inhabited the planet: a few thousand.
Times self-righteousness has been an effective tool of persuasion: 0
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