Rick Barnes says SEC teams should be fined if they don't play 3 top 50 games OOC

"It's not hard. There's 50 teams that are top 50 at the end of the year. Obviously you can't predict all those things that go in to teams having good years or bad, but you can give yourself an out by playing almost all quality opponents in non league. This year we were locked in to kind of a bad schedule by the time we got hired in March, but if you see next year we are going to play 7, maybe 8 teams that finished in the top 50 this year. Up to 10 based on who we play in Maui. We have a lot of teams in this league that are playing way too many buy games. They're filling up November and December with Ws rather than quality basketball games, which doesn't do anybody any good. I think when you look at us only getting three teams in that's a direct result of this terrible scheduling."

"It's great that the SEC Network puts all of our games on TV, but your goal should be to get on ESPN. When we play Gonzaga and North Carolina and Indiana and Virginia and out in Maui next year those are going to be on ESPN. I don't understand why so many coaches in our league are okay with playing Pondwater State 8 times on SEC Network when they could be getting national exposure and helping the league with quality games."

"There has to be a fine system in place for the damage these schedules are doing to our league."

Also said he and Cal will do a presentation in Destin on moving SEC Tourney to Tuesday-Saturday and thinks the league will go back to East/West scheduling but not the divisions themselves when it comes to standings. Said it almost passed last year and the east coaches want it.