My case against Jarvis Jones

2009ring said
What you consider "SEC hate", people who don't live in the SEC areas consider "SEC slobbering".

The SEC is really good because of the BCS system (created by - wait for it - the SEC commissioner) and the polls. Let's see how they do when the real playoffs start.

Real number don't exactly show a huge dominance:

<center>SEC vs. PAC-12 regular season: 10-12</center><center>SEC vs. PAC-12 bowl games: 1-0</center><center>SEC vs. Big 12 regular season: 6-10</center><center>SEC vs. Big 12 bowl games: 21-8</center><center>SEC vs. ACC regular season: 42-36</center><center>SEC vs. ACC bowl games: 16-9</center><center>SEC vs. Big 10 regular season: 7-4</center><center>SEC vs. Big 10 bowl games: 19-19</center><center>SEC vs. Big East regular season: 16-15</center><center>SEC vs. Big East bowl game: 3-8

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I definitely feel there is an SEC fatigue that runs through this forum, and as others have posted, it makes since given that the Saints are located in the middle of SEC country.

That said, this evidence that the SEC hasn't been dominant is pretty week. Sure the regular season numbers are close, but did the author of that article even bother to look at the bowl games? Bowl games are a better indicator since they generally pit the better teams of each conference against each other and not USC vs a pitiful Arkansas or LSU vs a down year Washington. All told, the SEC holds a 60-45 win/loss ratio against all of the other conferences, or a .571 win average. Hell, take out the Big 10 bowl games and it's an even more pronounced landslide ratio of 41-26. 15 wins over .500.

Also, I don't get the bashing of Jones over his 40 time? Sure, I understand there are correlations between 40 time and athleticism, but I don't understand why variances matter at the OLB/DE position. For a WR and CB, I can see that a difference of .10 of a second can equal a few steps over a distance of 40 years (or a step perhaps at 20 yards). For a OLB/DE, what's the conversion of .10 or .15 of a second over a 10 yard area, figuring a QB in shotgun and a 3 step drop?

I've heard that Jones' calling card in college was his hand use (and Galette's tweet backed that up). To me, knowing that a player rarely just runs past a OT, hand use would be a much better measure of a player's potential.