re: Why is SEC Basketball so bad

Basketball is on the decline quality-wise all over from the top down. The NBA is a select handful of good teams like Golden State and Cleveland and a bunch of mediocre to bad teams chasing them. College hoops is becoming the same thing: everyone chasing UK, Duke, UNC, Arizona, Mich. St, Wiskey, Kansas and UCLA. And that is even trickling down to the high school level. More great athletes are playing football and baseball and basketball is suffering. Kentucky is Kentucky and always will be. But being an old fart, I saw SEC basketball in it's heyday and I can tell you, beyond UK, there's not an SEC school out there that would want to face their counterpart from the mid 80's. Those teams from the not-so-distant past would kick the living shite out of today's team at their same school. LSU under Dale Brown, Bama under Wimp Sanderson, Nolan Richardson bringing 90 minutes of hell. Those teams could play. The league had serious depth as the 8th and 9th place teams could beat anybody on a given night. We were sending 6 teams to the tourney and bitching about numbers 7 and 8 that got left out. Basketball is just bad now. The game has decomposed into just an isolation game where teamwork, leadership, and experience don't occur and don't matter. It's one and done and if I don't start right away and pour in a double double every night, I'm transferring. It needs to be looked at and addressed. The sport is dying a slow, painful death. And the regular season has been devalued to nothing for everyone but the bubble teams. The blue bloods get in on reputation and cache', the Cinderellas get in by winning their league tourney, and the teams in the middle are the only ones that have to go out and win every night. It sucks.