The new narrative about the BIG and the SEC.  painterlad's
picture December 5, 2012 at 2:09p  While driving about town
today, I listened to an ESPN radio host describe the transition
from the Big Ten to the SEC. (I won’t mention who it was, but
his last name rhymes with “cow turd.”) This person described
Wisconsin as, right now, the best program in the BIG while
Arkansas is the 6th best program in the SEC. The obvious
inference is that the very best of the Big Ten is a middle-of-
the-road SEC team. Andy Staples, a huge SEC homer at, made the
same point on his page. How embarrassing, he wrote, that the
very best of the BIG was, at best, average in the SEC, and how
much that says about how bad everyone in the BIG is. (To be
fair, Staples would make the same statement about any other
conference.) Before I even begin to destroy the concept of
Wisconsin being on top, let me ask this one simple question:
Where was this when Meyer left Florida for Ohio State? True,
Meyer had one year removed from the sidelines, but d