You obviously are one of those SEC edumacashun types. Your name and cluelessness gives it away.
The SEC doesn't have their priorities right. They abuse the system to take advantage of kids, use them up, and throw them away. I forget which school (pretty sure it was LSU) offered a kid a scholarship, the kid got to campus, attended classes for THREE DAYS, and the coach called him and said "Oops, you don't have a scholarship, we gave it to someone else. You can either pay your way or go on your way." SEC has a history of rule breaking. There is a reason that the schools with the most NCAA infractions are nearly all SEC schools - winning is priority #1, destroying the lives of a handful of kids per school year is collateral damage.
If you are dumb enough to think that "cutting" 20-30 players and replacing them with new recruits isn't a huge advantage, then you are drinking the kool-aid that the SEC is superior because of no other reason than they are better.
Is the SEC the best conference in the country right now? Absolutely. However, they got their through a whole lot of shady tactics that you can't even pretend aren't shady.