re: Tide Hoops | 31-6 (16-2)

I think it's reasonable to think we'll be 21-3 (11-0) heading into the final stretch

@ Auburn
@ Tennessee
Georgia
@ South Carolina
Arkansas
Auburn
@ Texas A&M

There are 2 gimmes there - vs Georgia and @ Carolina. So that gives you 13-0.

So basically you are down to 5 games. Win 4 or 5, you win the league. Win 3, you at worst win a share. Win 2, probably still win a share and possibly outright. Go 1-4 or 0-5 and we probably have bigger problems.

We lose on the road by Double digits to a 12-9 team and move down in the NET. Tennessee does it and they didn’t drop at all

Love how Mizzou plays. Gates is gonna do good stuff there and he's going to sign good players, too.

It will be great for the league to have Mizzou good at basketball again.

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@ Auburn
@ Tennessee
Georgia
@ South Carolina
Arkansas
Auburn
@ Texas A&M

There are 2 gimmes there - vs Georgia and @ Carolina. So that gives you 13-0.

So basically you are down to 5 games. Win 4 or 5, you win the league

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Arkansas is 0-6 on the road.
Georgia is 1-6 on the road.
Auburn is 4-3 on the road.
Win @ Rupp notwithstanding, South Carolina is not good at all.

We have bigger problems if Bama gets to the stretch needing 4 wins to clinch and don't sweep those four.

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Love how Mizzou plays. Gates is gonna do good stuff there and he's going to sign good players, too.

It will be great for the league to have Mizzou good at basketball again.

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Agree on all points. I was pretty high on the hire when it happened and thought it was pretty clearly the best in the conference for that cycle. But he's probably ahead of schedule for even what I was thinking at the time. He's a good coach and has a great demeanor. He's not a hard guy to root for at all for me.

Need to win one of next two. If that is the case I want to beat AU. Would love to win both but UT will be hard on the road.

We have a 2 game lead in the SEC with UT going down.

I'll be honest, I can live with LSU skating on NCAA penalties if it means they keep McMahon for 5 years.

I've also been pretty unimpressed with Golden, last night notwithstanding. They should be better than they are. It's a decent roster. They just remind me a ton of those string of Grant and Avery teams that had one dude who could iso up and score, and letting that one dude do that was pretty much the end of the strategy on offense.

Gotta love Chris Stewart.

If you were to try and classify the SEC into tiers based on where the programs are right now and project it out over the next ~5-10 years what would that look like? It's not an exact science because things can change rapidly with the transfer portal or with injuries. Best guesses on what we know about each program today.

Tier One = will compete for the conference title most years and should make the NCAAT every year
Tier Two = pretty solid and could compete for a conference title and/or make the NCAAT some years, but not expected to do so every year
Tier Three = not ready to significantly compete yet, but could move up a tier with the right recruiting class or portal additions

I think Florida, Missouri and Texas A&M could move into Tier One pretty quickly, but i'm not sure they've done enough yet to warrant it. They are all pretty clearly above Tier Three for now though.

Any of the Tier Three schools could jump right into Tier Two with the right recruiting/portal class, but there is no reason to think any of these teams are winning the conference in the next five years.


Tier One
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Kentucky
Tennessee


Tier Two
Florida
Missouri
Texas A&M


Tier Three
Georgia
LSU
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
South Carolina
Vanderbilt