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Where do you put the SEC as a basketball conference as of now?
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:06 pm
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:06 pm
Definitely feel like it'll be more respectable than last year even though UF will fall off a little bit. Could end up being a good conference instead of an average one 
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Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:07 pm to UnAnon
We all bow down to Kentucky
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:08 pm to HamzooReb
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We all bow down to Kentucky
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:08 pm to HamzooReb
I fear no team coming to the PMAC.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:09 pm to UnAnon
The SEC is horrid. I keep thinking it will get better each year but there's only one thing that gets better each year and it starts with a U and ends with a K.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:11 pm to UnAnon
Kentucky is good
So is home Arkansas
The rest is bad, but Florida will be good by the end
So is home Arkansas
The rest is bad, but Florida will be good by the end
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:13 pm to UnAnon
Why is the SEC not as good as some of the other big conferences in basketball? I'm guessing it has something to do with how we focus on football more.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:13 pm to UnAnon
Fighting for 4th with the PAC 12
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:14 pm to UnAnon
Better than last season but it's not going to stabilize until there's some coaching stability across the conference. If you look at the power basketball conferences right now, good majority are largely stable at the HC position.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:19 pm to T1gerWonder
You're right about Arky and Florida.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:28 pm to HamzooReb
We've always been respectable, but I think basketball is just something to do in the offseason unless you are Kentucky.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:32 pm to UnAnon
Kentucky looks like they invented the sport right now.
Very little doubt to me Florida will be better by the end of the season. With the way Miami's PG was shooting, anyone would have lost
We looked good yesterday. Want to see us vs some real competition other than a rebuilding ACC has been.
Lsu could be another team looking to break through this year. Haven't seen them yet, and honestly I have heard this story before.
Everyone else is bad.
Very little doubt to me Florida will be better by the end of the season. With the way Miami's PG was shooting, anyone would have lost
We looked good yesterday. Want to see us vs some real competition other than a rebuilding ACC has been.
Lsu could be another team looking to break through this year. Haven't seen them yet, and honestly I have heard this story before.
Everyone else is bad.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:44 pm to UnAnon
Pathetic--like it always has been.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:48 pm to UnAnon
It's bad. Kentucky is by far the jewel of basketball this year though. Arkansas might not be bad but the other twelve aren't great.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:50 pm to UnAnon
If by respectable you mean shitty, then yeah it will be more shitty than last year.
Posted on 11/20/14 at 11:58 pm to BallstotheWesleyWall
I think 5 teams can get in. Kentucky is in a world of its own, but I could see Florida, Arky, and maybe 2 of LSU, Georgia, Tenn, and Mizzou getting in.
Posted on 11/21/14 at 1:09 am to DakForHe15man
Right you are methinks. Name a school or two who is great in both football and basketball. ???
There have been schools in the past who were able to pull it off for short durations, but who has done so continuously?
It's almost like such would violate the laws of physics or something.
Never contemplated this with such focus, but now that I think about it... weird.
There have been schools in the past who were able to pull it off for short durations, but who has done so continuously?
It's almost like such would violate the laws of physics or something.
Never contemplated this with such focus, but now that I think about it... weird.
Posted on 11/21/14 at 1:41 am to UnAnon
Mid-Major
Posted on 11/21/14 at 4:15 am to Anfield Road
While in previous years, this has been a league that was very weak at the bottom, this year the problem has changed.
This is a league that is super weak in the middle, with an improving bottom, and a fairly robust top.
There are three teams that should win 12 or 13 conference games, minimum-- not because they are so strong, but just because you can trust them not to completely go monkey-fricking-a-basketball for stretches of 15 minutes at a time.
The class of the league is obviously the Kentucky-Arkansas-Florida trio; LSU has players, and you can see where they will get things sorted out as they play together a bit, figure out their crunch time arrangements, and get used to playing together.
That's about the end of the good news. Your Best of the Rest is probably Georgia, but do you trust that they won't regress to the mean after last year?
After that, you face a dart board of teams you wouldn't trust to do well in the MEAC. South Carolina and TAMU might be on the rise a bit, but they haven't shown anything. Tennessee, Missouri, and Ole Miss are teetering on complete implosion. Do you really trust an Anthony Grant Alabama team to not find a comically bad way to underachieve? I mean, at this point, you almost end up picking Vandy 6th out of the fact that they're rarely terrible, and that may be enough.
Auburn is probably another year from being a real comer in the league-- some rebuilds just take time.
The forecast for this year is for three teams to dominate the league in the W-L column, and for a bunch of teams to finish in that 9-9 to 7-11 range, as no one is good enough to run away from teams on the road, and teams swap home-court wins.
There will be a bunch of unwatchable SEC basketball this fall.
This is a league that is super weak in the middle, with an improving bottom, and a fairly robust top.
There are three teams that should win 12 or 13 conference games, minimum-- not because they are so strong, but just because you can trust them not to completely go monkey-fricking-a-basketball for stretches of 15 minutes at a time.
The class of the league is obviously the Kentucky-Arkansas-Florida trio; LSU has players, and you can see where they will get things sorted out as they play together a bit, figure out their crunch time arrangements, and get used to playing together.
That's about the end of the good news. Your Best of the Rest is probably Georgia, but do you trust that they won't regress to the mean after last year?
After that, you face a dart board of teams you wouldn't trust to do well in the MEAC. South Carolina and TAMU might be on the rise a bit, but they haven't shown anything. Tennessee, Missouri, and Ole Miss are teetering on complete implosion. Do you really trust an Anthony Grant Alabama team to not find a comically bad way to underachieve? I mean, at this point, you almost end up picking Vandy 6th out of the fact that they're rarely terrible, and that may be enough.
Auburn is probably another year from being a real comer in the league-- some rebuilds just take time.
The forecast for this year is for three teams to dominate the league in the W-L column, and for a bunch of teams to finish in that 9-9 to 7-11 range, as no one is good enough to run away from teams on the road, and teams swap home-court wins.
There will be a bunch of unwatchable SEC basketball this fall.
Posted on 11/21/14 at 4:46 am to T1gerWonder
quote:That ship has sailed. We were good on the road last year.
So is home Arkansas
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