re: Is this the Weakest SEC Basketball has Ever Been?

Top teams for Next Season:

Tier One:

UK- Should return a couple players from last year's class and adds arguably the best recruiting class in history next year, and they aren't finished with it yet.

UF- Probably bringing back everyone except Boynton, Murphy, and Rosario, and adding Kasey Hill and Chris Walker...both beasts. Plus Billy D is the best coach in the SEC

Tier 2:

UT- Returns everyone from this year's team except McBee and Hall (neither big hits) and adds Maymon and Hubbs to the mix.

Bama- Returns everyone except Steele, and adds Engstrom, Hale, and Taylor to rid us of our post depth problem.

Arkansas- Returns everyone, and adds two very solid posts to the mix, Portis and Kingsley

LSU- Returns pretty much everyone but the Tuba, and adds an exceptional class.

Tier 3:

Mizzou- Loses Bell, Bowers, and Oriakhi, all huge hits, but returns everyone else and adds a pretty solid class.

Don't know much about everyone else, but those should be the top teams. I'm sure some Mizzou fans will jump all over me, but you can't just replace Oriakhi and Bowers with not 1 single player who averaged more than 10 minutes down low.

So you waste your time by entering the thread and posting? Interesting....

You're joking right? Your team was 18-13 with some very bad losses. The SEC was a 100x better last year. Not great, but much better.

2008-09 was 1000x worse than this year.

I think that Vandy will be pretty good next year as well, and Georgia should be decent as long as KCP comes back (which is a big if).

The SEC was just incredibly young this season, outside of Florida, Missouri, Ole Miss, and Tennessee (although Maymon going down definitely threw a wrench in their season). It should be a lot better next year.

I may be off base in thinking this but could the SEC in general having so many weak seasons overall be due to AD's having been more quick to fire coaches the past decade?

My thinking is simply that during the 80s through the early 2000s, it always seemed like half the league usually had tourney teams with a few being Top 20 every year. However, they weren't always the same teams.

Of Alabama, LSU, Miss St, Tennessee, Arkansas, Vandy group, at least a couple were Top 20 any given year. Georgia, Auburn, Ole Miss, South Carolina had some really good teams here and there too.

Is it that everyone thinks they'll find lightning in a bottle like Florida with Donovan to the point that now 75% of the league is constantly in rebuilding instead of waiting for the 4-5 year cycle when a couple of great recruits mix in with a solid base of upperclass starters?

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Some of us like football better to begin with. Stoops has the fan base excited and we'd be talking football even if the basketball team was one of the best in the country.

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I think what has the real UK fans energized is they are going back to fundamentals of defense first. The Air Raid may have been exciting offense but it did not land UK in a top dog seat. Brooks was better in that he was more balanced and it is better strategy to build long term with. I think Stoops getting back to defense over a gimmicky offense is what has the old timers at UK energized.

Mississippi State will be a bit better next season, but they'll still suck.

LSU bringing it back next year

15 wins is optimistic, but decently realistic. I'd be shocked by 20 even if you had OM's non-conference schedule from this year. Either way I see Mizzou as a bubble team next year, and MSST isn't there yet.