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I'd rather root for my team and lose than root for someone else and win.

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And you must root for someone else's basketball program.

To each his own I guess.

Yeah. I just did the math wondering...

The SEC has won 12 of the last 19 in the three major sports. That's pretty crazy and deserving of praise no matter where you are from, and who one roots for.

It is pretty crazy. I do admit that even though I do support my conference before those in other conferences, with a couple of exceptions (Penn St and USC), I would rather see equality across the board.

I know this will never be the case in baseball, mainly due to weather. The SEC, Texas teams, and the PAC12 will always have better programs for the most part due to that reason.

In football, I feel we are very close to having 3 conferences at a very high level, with the SEC, B1G, and PAC12. With Michigan's return and Urbs in Columbus, there should be 2 elite teams in the B1G for the next 5-10 years or so. Add a much stronger Michigan St than anytime since the 60's and a team like Wisconsin, and that league is in very good shape, especially if Penn St gets back to an elite level. Also, the PAC12 will benefit greatly from the compeition between USC, Stanford, and Oregon (maybe Washington as well) which should trickle down a little bit to the Cal's and maybe one of the Arizona schools as well.

In basketball, I think we have a great spread of talent along the leagues. The B1G and Big East are definitely leading the way with depth, but with Syracuse and Pitt heading to the ACC, I would think the ACC will return to their thrown as the top league again soon. The SEC has Kentucky, Florida, and Vandy that have been at a high level (although Vandy pukes on themselves come tournament time). Hopefully Mike Anderson can get Arkansas back up and along with the addition of Missouri and the improvements at Alabama, the league could get back to having 6+ strong teams each year hopefully. The Big12 is solid in basketball, but losing Mizzou could hurt a little bit. The league needs Oklahoma St to return to the level that they were at in the previous couple of decades.

Only when all the conference are strong or closer to equal will a sport like football have the tournament feel to the regular season that makes it great on the national level.

The argument against rooting for your conference is dumb. When the SEC wins a championship, the SEC makes money. When the SEC makes money, its schools make money. So devidee and the rest of you that dont like that we pull for each other, yall dont like making money? Thats dumb.

Sorry. Don't buy it. Football bowl games are what you play in and not what you win. Most of those are slotted. Basketball is done on a game Played basis and the dollar amounts are very small per team per game played.