I can't remember the SEC ever being this bad in basketball...

Vandy has been making the tournament every year. I'd lump us into the likely tournament team category; we just don't do anything once we are there. This year might be the first in a while where we don't make the tourney.

Rick Stansbury says "Hi".

Let's face it; the SEC is mostly about football. We've have some good basketball and baseball teams but overall the competitiveness in football is much greater.

Football is just a better game from my perspective; it's the happy medium among the 3 sports in terms of speed of the game and distinctiveness of plays discernable by fans. And of course football has 2 things the others do not have: larger venues/stadiums and more physical play. There's a reason why a college football team can fill a stadium with over 100k fans.

Lets see..

LSU fires their final 4 coach, then hires a mediocre west coast coach, Then they hire some guy from North Texas (another mediocre coach )

bama fires an elite eight coach. Who currently has NC ST. In the top 10. Then hires a coach that has yet to win an NCAA tourney game.

Miss St runs off their most successful coach in history for a nobody.

Mizzou hires a shitty Acc coach and becomes the highest seed to lose in NCAA Tourney history. Jury still out.

But here are the teams improving

Arkansas really impressed with them played 2 top 5 teams tuff (should make the tourney as a bubble team)

Tenn. Idk what to think. Ran off a sweet sixteen coach but the new guy seems decent.

Kentucky elite coach and program.

Carolina is improving every week. We will be a force in a few years. Have an elite coach.

Ole Miss bubble team every year

Vandy will always be solid with Stallings.

Rest our dumpster fires

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What happened?

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Basketball is very competitive across the country and the SEC has not put enough resources in as a conference and from individual schools to get to the top level.
Does Mike Slive even care about basketball? The money is in football, and I think that is where 95% of the focus at schools is.
except Kentucky.

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What has happened to the league?

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This year was going to be the perfect storm for a down season across the board. And it begins with the coaching situation in the conference IMO. You have several brand new coaches at respective schools, as well as several coaches who may be on their way out. It's going to take a couple seasons for those situations to normalize.

I think it rebounds as those new guys get their legs in a couple seasons. But it could be ugly in the meantime.

hey Auburn just got a season changing win versus Furman.

SEC better prepare its anus.

This year's Georgia team is the worst I have seen it. I think we are worse than the post probation Felton teams. I can only imagine how bad we would be without Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.

Our ridiculous schedule = we beat up on each other all year??