• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

Speed

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
bkochmc said:
Southern speed? I got some southern speed for ya!

jesse_owens_1936_02.jpg

Jesse%20Owens.gif
Click to expand...
you DO realize that Jesse Owens was born in Alabama?
 
Upvote 0
MililaniBuckeye said:
The "south" is comprised of the same states that constituted the Confederate States during the Civil War. Those states would be:

Florida
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas
Tennessee
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia

However, when the sports media refers to "southern speed", they are virtually always referring to Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.
Click to expand...
Louisiana produces more NFL talent per capita than any other state. Mississippi is second.
 
Upvote 0
Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:
Frankly, this whole southern speed concept has little to do with position players. Ted Ginn is as fast at Ohio State as he would be at Florida. The term "southern speed" contemplates a concept of "team speed" essentially meaning that the "big fellas" play faster... Or, in other words, Big Ten Teams bulk up to better run block - and Big 10 D's bulk up to better stop the inside game.

Of course, all this is complete crap. In the 1998 Sugar it was clear Florida State had much more "speed" than OSU where the lines were concerned. OSU, at the time, was a more typical grind it out on the ground team (notwithstanding the fact that OSU had some great Wideouts and Corners and "speed" guys) What changed, however, is that sometime around then, maybe a little later... OSU decided, hey, wait a second... Flast may be on to something... they're keeping their lines fresh and playing "faster" and they were throwing my QB around like a rag-doll. Well, now some 8 years later, OSU is just as fast as any otehr team. Now, there are some teams, like Wisconsin or Minnesota for example, who still seem to champion bulk over speed. And, as a general matter, South East teams champion speed over bulk.

It's just the way the game has evolved, and I'll admit southern teams were the "first" to take that tact successfully. Lets not forget, in the 1970's damn near every team worth half it's salt was running the option. Speed - as I've outlined it above - wasn't a factor then...
Click to expand...
i find it more than a little amusing that the majority of the SEC was playing 'pound the ball, grind it out' offense in '05, while the Big Ten was running up and down the field like nobodies business...
 
Upvote 0
G8erBait said:
Well then why did you highlight USC in your argument as part of your 9 "northern" schools? BTW, Oklahoma is not a tweener. If you consider Colorado as a Northern school then Oklahoma is a Southern school. Just look at a map.
Click to expand...

Are you as dumb as you sound? Didn't I clearly say that the southern state were based on which were Confederate states? California was a Union state, Colorado was a Union territory, and Oklahoma was neutral.

Regional titles are not based solely on actual geographic location. Ohio is considered a "midwestern" state, but if you were to draw line down the middle of the contiguous US to divide it into true east and west, you'd find Ohio well inside--actually, dead in the middle of--the eastern half. Hell, even Minnesota and Iowa would be in "the east"...
 
Upvote 0
Look buddy, I don't really care anymore. If you want to consider Southern California as a Northern team then go right ahead and do so. Heck, if you want to consider Alabama, FSU and Florida as Northern teams then that is cool as well. I gave you a list of National Champions since 1990 and I will let you draw your own conclusions. Based on that list, I think the Southeastern region of the United States plays the best football. :)
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top