SEC! SEC! SEC!
I round out the rest of the power 5 conferences with the History of the Southeastern Conference. Every one of the schools in the SEC has interwoven itself into the very fabric of college sports lore, with all eyes on the dominance of Kentucky Wildcats basketball and Alabama Crimson Tide football over the years slowly mending into Arkansas Razorbacks basketball and Georgia Bulldogs football… and the occasional Vanderbilt baseball team.
The SEC has long been one of the greatest sports conferences in college history since its inception in the early 1930s, and over the course of 90 years, has slowly solidified its spot at the top of the list. The rest of us are sick of their elitism; those inside those southern walls are happy to be there, fanning the flames of the realignment cold with television dollar bills.
Its expansions in 1991, 2012, and 2024, mostly with teams from the Big 12 Conference and its associates, gave it a far reach over much of the sports-crazy south and helped it dominate the television sets at just the right time. And when you have TV money, you tend to have everything else—so success followed in just about every area.
Whether you’re a Bulldog, a Landshark, a Gator, or one of three different colors of Tiger, you know that sports down here are more than just something you get into fights over in the Waffle House parking lot—it’s a way of life. Keep your head held high and your weed killer away from important trees as we take a look down the history of the Southeastern Conference.
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I feel like you characterized the game of change a little incorrectly. MSU students, players, coaches, and even the Dean all wanted to play in the tourney. But, there was an unwritten Mississippi law that prevented them from playing integrated teams. After reluctantly obliging for 2 straight seasons, the head coach had enough after his third straight SEC title. He snuck the team from Starkville to play in the tourney.
I won't pretend they were saints. They were more fence sitters who wanted to play ball than actual civil rights activists wanting to dismantle segregation. But, I will say this video makes it seem like MSU as an institution refused to play, when in reality it was political pressure. And considering how little political power MSU has compared to Ole Miss, opposing this pressure was a big risk to take.
I cant deny the greatness of the mentioned coaches, but not mentioning General Neyland is a sin.
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You left out swimming, tennis & golf
Love the 'disclaimer'! Really, if at this point you cant see how stupid, wrong, and backwards segregation was, we really dont need you in society. Its the height of a "snowflake/safespace" worldview. If you cant deal with different viewpoints or people, its not on society to protect you.
Or trees? I wonder what that one could be? 😂 Roll Tide!
Man, I love your videos! This is coming from a B1G guy! (Michigan State, specifically!)
it's very like the southeast to want to remove itself from its parent organization
you forgot ou's softball record joining the sec
you forgot ou's softball record joining the sec
As Sheryl Yoast says at the beginning of “Remember the Titans”: In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, it's bigger than Christmas day.
Obviously, that love of high school football extends into college.
I will NEVER consider UT & OU as SEC schools.
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“Unfortunately familiar map.” I fail to understand the unfortunate part.
HONEY!!! Dalukes dropped an other history of an athletic conference! Get me a Miller NOW!
I TOLD YALL EVERYTHING WAS BORN WITH THE SEC AND EVERYTHING DIES WITH THE SEC! We are the conference that started it all!
How do you make a video on the History of the SEC without mentioning the General?
Respect on your videos, these are fantastic
Bro, keep up the good work. Your videos are fantastic
The conference of hiding from opponents and named champions without beating anyone besides their own conf.
Anytime they add a team that new team whupps up on em. Ask A&M and now Tex. The conference of fraudulent titles.
Watch a video proves is you're kind of biased. Because you don't bring up the influence of ESPN and the rising of SEC football from the mid-90s to our current format and how they destroyed the Big 12. Also when you bring up segregation in at Southeastern conference it was the elites which means the political figures and the people who ran the universities that had an issue with their teams playing black players most athletes are competitors did not have a problem with that. What media tends to do or historic books tends to do is a spotlight minimal or certain people who had a problem with it and made it seem like they spoke for a whole.
To fans of other conferences they think its weird that southern football fans cheer for the whole conference
My favorite part of these videos is the era-accurate logos
3rd Rewatch, Gotta say Thank you for providing all this football history in a easy to digest and fun to watch way.
Should have mentioned that George Wallace was a ….. *drum roll* ….. Democrat.
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Greatest Conference Ever. Of which OU & Texas contributed nothing. They get to enjoy the benefits tho.
Kentucky integrated SEC football, but I thought that Vanderbilt men's basketball was the first in the conference to integrate.
Also, I see comments saying that the players and students at SEC schools wanted to integrate but the powerful elites in their states opposed it. However, according to what I have read it was the Kentucky governor who ordered that the football program be integrated. In other words, it wasn't some defiant coach going against political pressure. It was the politicians themselves–at least in the case of Kentucky football–who spearheaded the change.
Finally, the first African-American in the SEC to win an individual national championship was a track athlete at Kentucky. I don't remember his name.
Meanwhile, early in the video it was mentioned that Dr. McVey of Kentucky was the first person to lead the newly formed conference, and did so for 10 years or so.
Such a big part of the history of the SEC, but known only as a "basketball school".
ayoooo give Dawn Staley and her ladies their due!
GO GAMECOCKS 🤙🤙🤙
“New baseball power house Vanderbilt” what a sentence
Then boys fell off after TV got to Tennessee
Mark my words
The SEC will expand again in 2025. These are the 4 most likely schools that will be added in:
Clemson
UNC
UVA
Duke
These history videos are awesome! You should do mid-major conferences too for basketball and other non-football conferences!!!
I really wish GT was still in the SEC.
Very informative
Mad respect from a lifelong KU fan for the introduction disclaimer
How does this guy not have 1 million subscribers the quality of his videos are so high
The SEC would have 7 straight national championships in baseball if it wasn’t for a certain….. HOG CITY 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
No mention of Sam Cunningham
Tried to watch this but just seems to be more of identity politics. I get it about the race issue, but you are just pandering at this point. Just want to watch a documentary about the conference, not a Netflix special.
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I wish you talked more about Kentucky basketball
Can you do the American athletic conference?
@brycehawes38 you and all the other ungrateful so called "fans" are the reason why Kentucky hasn't won NCAA basketball championship since 2012 and it wouldn't surprise me if we don't win another championship ever simply because of the disrespect and "what have you've done for me lately" attitude that so many of you show to Coach Calipari and some to Pitino. Its like so many of yall have forgot about those years when chubby smith took uk from basketball royalty into a mediocracy and then ole DUI Gillespie drunk ass crashed out and almost destroyed the legacy that all those great teams from coach Rick Pitino back to The Legendary Adolph Rupp built. But after all that damage was done and Kentucky was the laughing stock of the NCAA basketball guess who stepped up and made Kentucky desirable and relevant again Coach John Calipari, he made players want to go to Kentucky over every college in the country. And not to mention He also won us the national championship 2012. So you and all the other ungrateful so called fans need to show respect and gratitude when they more than deserve it