I know its football season, but what is wrong with SEC Basketball?

Because in the SEC:

Football




































Basketball














Baseball


Unless you are Kentucky or Vanderbilt.

The past couple years you've had some young teams and new coaches across the board.

They also tend to perform better at the end of the season. More than a couple times we've had as many SEC teams advance in the NCAA Tournament then the Big East despite almost half as many bids.

But in all seriousness it's a consistency issue.

Lack of good coaches, IMO.

SEC has only 3, maybe 4 coaches who have proven they can win at a high level consistently.

Easy because no gives a rat's arse about basketball

I'm a huge fan of both the football and basketball programs at Alabama.

I don't understand why so many people hate the sport of basketball or just simply don't care.

I support my team and watch every game I can with damn near the same level of intensity of a football game.

Hopefully the Tide can back up their preseason ranking this year and help the SEC perform well in the Big Dance.

Well my Aggies will help bring that up next year, as will Mizzou.

FWIW, when I was at school at A&M I probably went to about 4 BBall games in 4 years. Maybe. We sucked. The gym we played in was old. Nobody cared.

Then we finally decided to do something about it several years ago. We hired Billy Gillispie while he was an alcoholic but hadn't completely gone over the edge yet. All of a sudden we went from 0-16 in the B12 to being a Sweet 16 team. It was fun. Those guys played with heart. All of a sudden filling out tournament brackets MEANT something to me other than just filling out a sheet with a bunch of teams I knew almost nothing about hoping to hit the lottery. March Madness when your team is good is FUN. Now that we have made 7 straight NCAA's and we have built up the program to expect to win it's even more fun.

No reason the SEC shouldn't be loaded with bball schools. It just takes money. Buy a coach and build facilities. The only other difficulty might be a cultural shift at the HS level in the South. About 15 years ago in Texas the kids in HS stopped focusing exclusively on football and started playing bball as well and now Texas is a serious recruiting hotbed for both sports and you have multiple Texas teams with quality bball programs. Bball makes money for the school as well so if you aren't maximizing it you are just throwing away cash. It's not football money but it is good money. Florida seems to be the only big football school in the SEC that has figured this out and became a basketball power. If nothing else it gives you something interesting to cheer for from December through March besides a bowl game. It also brings tons of recognition to your school, ESPN loves college basketball.

It seems like the SEC has been successful in spite of itself in basketball but it could dominate if it chooses to. Football and baseball are already dominated by the SEC so why not just add basketball as well? Make the SEC become the epicenter of all college sports. BTW, with A&M added you now have 2 serious powerhouse Women's programs as well with the Aggies and Tennessee. I never thought I would give a damn about Women's bball but it is getting to be a pretty big sport and it's also fun to win.

It's November. Don't put too much stock into what happens this month.