Quote Originally Posted by dantheman4248 View Post
Individual player NFL talent doesn't equate to better overall teams. Just use 2018 MSU as a solid example of that.

As for recency, I'd say 2013-2015 was the "peak" of the SEC and now we're on a downward trend as a whole from that. Last year we may have had 15 first rounders but we had 7 just plain bad teams. Compare with 2014 when the entire West was full of good teams with Vanderbilt as the only objectively bad team. Kentucky was a 4 pt loss to Louisville away from being the 13th bowl eligible team that year.
While individual players don't equate to it necessarily,if you have one. But your MSU 18 is a terrible example. It led to the best defense in the country and only an idiot as a head coach kept us from being a legit sec championship contender. Fact is you have to have elite talent in at least some spots to compete. You can't name a team that's won an sec championship Wo it. We had elite had numerous spots!! Minus the head coach....