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re: 40 days until Basketball season starts!
Posted on 9/23/13 at 4:11 pm to reedus23
Posted on 9/23/13 at 4:11 pm to reedus23
Thanks Gators 
It's going to hinge on a couple of things. First, SEC teams not named Kentucky and Florida (and I say this for the sake of national perception, not that they're the only good teams) at this point are going to have to make a good showing in their OOC games in order to erase any kind of negative perception of the conference. It'd also be beneficial for some of those former Big East teams to stub their toes in their first year in the ACC. The dissolution of the Big East (and their automatic 50 billion fricking bids no matter the quality of the conference from top to bottom) is probably the best thing to happen in order for the SEC to try to gain some bids.
Going to have to earn it outside of conference play though. I don't think that it happens this year with the youth coming in, more than likely the next. I'd like to see it happen ASAP though.
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Maybe I'm drinking the kool aid too much, but I really think the SEC gets more than 5 teams in this year. It's obviously way too early to predict, but I'm just seeing a lot of improvement across the board on paper. Now it just has to translate to on the court.
It's going to hinge on a couple of things. First, SEC teams not named Kentucky and Florida (and I say this for the sake of national perception, not that they're the only good teams) at this point are going to have to make a good showing in their OOC games in order to erase any kind of negative perception of the conference. It'd also be beneficial for some of those former Big East teams to stub their toes in their first year in the ACC. The dissolution of the Big East (and their automatic 50 billion fricking bids no matter the quality of the conference from top to bottom) is probably the best thing to happen in order for the SEC to try to gain some bids.
Going to have to earn it outside of conference play though. I don't think that it happens this year with the youth coming in, more than likely the next. I'd like to see it happen ASAP though.
This post was edited on 9/23/13 at 4:12 pm
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Posted on 9/23/13 at 4:24 pm to BluegrassBelle
Absolutely agree Belle. For whatever reason, I just have a feeling there is too much improvement across the board for more teams to do well OOC. Even if Mizzou stumbles, there's 6 other teams there improving. Speaking of Mizzou, as I see it, toughest OOC games may be UCLA but it's at home, the Illinois game because you just never know with that game and NC State because it's on the road and I wasn't impressed with how we played on the road. In conference, we got lucky and play UK and UF only once this year. The other teams are solid but I'll take my chances with being able to steal a game on the road against Vandy, Arky, Bama, UGA or UT(who all we play twice) instead of y'all or Florida.
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