While there may be good teams in other conferences....their conferences are far behind the SEC as a whole. Not just in number of teams in post-season play, but in attendance records. Every other conference states that their conference is better than the SEC, but these same fans hardly go to any games or seem to fully support their teams like fans in the SEC.
Here are the attendance records from the 2005-2006 season. ( I have them on-hand....that is why I am using this particular year.) These numbers include football, men and women basketball:

1. SEC – 9,498,368
2. Big Ten – 8,270,591
3. Big-12 – 7,838,888
4. ACC – 7,320,046
5. Big East – 5,680,285 (note 16 team b-ball conference, so arguably unfair)
6. Pac 10 – 5,191,988
7. Mountain West – 3,263,756

If this numbers included baseball the SEC would be even further ahead....as the top 3 NCAA Division 1 schools in fan attendance that year were all from the SEC. They were Mississippi State, LSU and Arkansas.

To put it simply....college sports is a religion in this part of the country.

Now for more recent information: This year ESPN sign a 15-year 2.25 Billion dollar deal with the SEC. This deal would pay the league $2.25 billion, or about $150 million per year. Combined with the 15-year deal with CBS, which will reportedly pay the SEC $55 million per season, the SEC can be expected to earn over $200 million per year from television rights alone. Just further proof of the dominance of the SEC.

I am a Mississippi State Bulldog fan and while I may hate the other 11 teams in the conference....I do want to see the SEC do well in the post season play. With the exception of Ole Miss, of course.

John R-7577