re: Does anyone actually give a shite about basketball?

SEC BB started sucking right around the time football got HUGE(R). No coincidence.

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But WHY do we have one of the worst basketball conferences? Up until 7 or 8 years ago that sure as heck wasn't the case. The SEC had been a VERY good basketball conference my entire life up until the early half of the 2000s. Now outside of Kentucky, Florida, and maybe a team or two more it has been unwatchable. VERY few SEC players can consistently shoot and about the same can't handle the ball consistently without turning it over. SEC players were just as athletic 10, 20, and even 30 years ago as they are now except SEC player now don't seem to be able to shoot or handle the ball as well consistently. You can also look at the NBA drafts from the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s and see them loaded with SEC players. How many players from the SEC not counting Kentucky have gone 1st round since say 2007? Compare that to the 80s and 90s and then try to tell me college basketball players are getting better.

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We're to basketball what the Big Ten is to football -- a two team conference living on past accomplishments with a few other historically good programs (Arkansas, Mizzou, LSU, et al) who haven't done anything in years and a bunch of bottom feeders.

Plus, we don't allot the resources toward basketball that other conferences do, which is a good thing. Basketball has essentially become a loss-leader in the business of collegiate athletics. Football floats the boat for the athletic department as a whole, and football is the guiding force of realignment and the all-important conference TV contract negotiations. Remember when the Big 12 almost dissolved, which would have left Kansas shite out of luck? No one wanted them because they bring nothing to the table in football despite being the Alabama of college basketball. Heck, a few years ago UNC's athletic department made something like a $200,000 profit -- which is damn near poverty when it comes to the business side of things in college sports -- and they'd just won the National Championship.