re: The Big 10 Has Been Inquiring About the CFP Selection Format

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You can say that but look where he spent most of his life. It was not in the SEC.

Long was born in Ohio
Played QB in Ohio
Went to college in Ohio
Had his first coaching job in Ohio
Coached at Michigan
Assistant AD at Michigan
Married a woman from Ann Arbor (home of Michigan)

If he is in his mid to late 50's then his formative years were spent in the B1G

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But this micromanaging of personal histories can go overboard. This is a much more mobile era -- does anyone associate Saban with the B12 (WV footprint, though I think it would have been the Southern conference back then) or the B10 (MSU)? Would anyone have objected had Les Miles been an SEC rep after leaving LSU despite Les not being an "SEC man" in terms of his past? Long was at Arkansas for nine years and there's no reason to think he wouldn't represent the SEC interests, especially since he was under a major microscope, being the head of that first committee.