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re: How would you make the SEC a better basketball conference?
Posted on 3/3/15 at 8:01 am to SwayzeCrazy
Posted on 3/3/15 at 8:01 am to SwayzeCrazy
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How would you make the SEC a better basketball conference?
Basically place the same emphasis on basketball as football. Kentucky is prototype but they have a long standing basketball tradition. Establishing that tradition begins from the top down in every basketball program. Obviously each school must have: outstanding facilities, a HC who can recruit well and coach a team into a well oiled machine and loyal fans who support the team through good times and bad.
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Posted on 3/3/15 at 8:27 am to Diddles
Nor will you ever be.
Posted on 3/3/15 at 8:36 am to davesdawgs
Can't do it. The South cares too much about football.
Posted on 3/3/15 at 9:32 am to SwayzeCrazy
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Top teams:
UK - dominating as always. Look to be in good shape for the future.
LSU - pulling in some great recruits. Could be a power next season. Just gotta hope Jones doesn't screw up. But with that talent, would he even have to coach that much?
Arkansas - good team now. Need Malik Monk and would be a top team.
Ole Miss - makes the most out of nothing. Would be exciting to see what AK and Moody could do with some top tier talent. Have struggled lately but have proven they can compete with top teams.
One of these teams aren't like the others.....
UK, LSU, Flo, Ark are the teams that should be the powers of the SEC in basketball. Then you have the UGA, aTm, Tenn, Ole Miss, Missouri tier that will have good years and bad years but can make noise in the conference.
Posted on 3/3/15 at 10:51 am to SouthOfSouth
Add UNC and Duke
Posted on 3/3/15 at 11:09 am to SouthOfSouth
Not necessarily true. Mizzou has 26 NCAA tourney appearances, which is 3rd most in the conference.....
Posted on 3/3/15 at 11:12 am to casublett1
but your ceiling is the elite 8.
Posted on 3/3/15 at 11:16 am to Gcockboi
True, the elite 8 has been our ceiling. However, to compare Mizzou basketball to, lets say, an Ole Miss is absolutely absurd.
Posted on 3/3/15 at 2:11 pm to Bench McElroy
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The easy solution would be to have all of the schools who will never be elite at football (Mississippi State, Missouri, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Vandy) put all of their resources into basketball. It's not a coincidence that most of the college basketball blue bloods (Kansas, Indiana, Duke, Kentucky) are atrocious at football. Unless you are the #1 school in a state stocked to the gills with athletic talent like a Florida or Texas, it's virtually impossible to be elite in both football and basketball at the same time. You have to pick and choose the sport you want to be good at. If it's extremely unlikely for your school to be elite at football without hitting the lottery at head coach like TCU with Patterson, you might as well pool all of our resources and try your luck at basketball instead.
All about economics, football is too large of the athletic departments budget. When football fails as a stream of revenue you'll start seeing the basketball team sleep 4 to a room (hypothetically speaking). Football funds all the small/club sports that generate $0 revenue as well. Also factor in regional climate, southern kids will spend less time in the bball gym than a kid up north that has to deal with snow 1/2 the year. Vice versa you done get too many talented baseball/football players from those areas. California being the exception but only because of sheer size. Just my .02
This post was edited on 3/3/15 at 2:14 pm
Posted on 3/3/15 at 2:17 pm to logjamming
Damn son! You suck at this 'internet' thing.
Posted on 3/3/15 at 2:45 pm to SwayzeCrazy
Investigate Cal and WWW
Posted on 3/3/15 at 2:55 pm to Gladius Veritas
Go to 16 teams and invite Cincinatti. I don't know who you could get after that. Notre Dame I guess but that is to far north and they would be a long shot to join the SEC.
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