re: Tiger Tales: True Confessions, Brushes With Fame & Infamous Tiger Escapades!

Yes it is true to a certain degree because everyone grows up here with football the only focus. Literally the second most popular sport might be spring football. But there are good athletes that play basketball down here and if you look at recruiting sites there are a good amount from this state that play major D1. I think the SEC has the potentially to be a good conference and has been in years past. You have Kentucky and Florida who are year in year out as good as anyone. Then that next tier is Mizzou, Arkansas, and many years Vanderbilt and Tennessee (a football school that still at times gets 20k fans for basketball games).

In my opinion many kids in this region go else where (ACC, or far from home) to play where basketball is more of an emphasis and more talked about. Also basketball recruiting as a whole is a much more national recruiting situation where kids often play far from home. So I think that fan support and hype plays a big role in it. But I see the SEC being much improved soon because there are 8 or 9 schools in the SEC i believe can be very good programs.