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Re: Basketball in SEC Country
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:39 am
by Shine
It's not that difficult really. Football is king in SEC country. It's not like teams in the SEC haven't had success. Certain places just gravitate to a particular sport. Kentucky is the SEC exception where hoops is king. I've talked before about how at tOhio St football recruiting is bigger than basketball. It has nothing to do with racism or any other such nonsense, it has to do with what folks are passionate about.
Speaking, or typing as it were, as an IU fan I know I can tell you more about the basketball prospects IU is looking at in the 2012 class than I can the members of the current IU football team.
Re: Basketball in SEC Country
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:20 pm
by Dinsdale
Who cares?
MY TEAM IS ON THE BOARD!!!!!!
WOOOHOOO!!!!!
No conference Oh-fer. That's a victory in and of itself.
Re: Basketball in SEC Country
Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:44 pm
by Mr T
National coach of the year? For what?
The SEC shouldnt be allowed more than three teams in the dance this year.
Re: Basketball in SEC Country
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:43 pm
by MgoBlue-LightSpecial
I understand you're just homering, but Mr T is right. If LSU won the title in a 6 bid league, then I wouldn't argue with a Trent Johnson COY selection. The fact is, the SEC was just awful this year. In any given year, the teams you can look at to carry the strength of the conference - UK, UF, and UT - are all in rebuilding mode. And UK not even so much a rebuilder as they've become flat-out mediocre. If those teams are as strong as they usually are, and LSU still wins the conference, then yeah, you've got a legitimate argument. In a year in which LSU was just "pretty good," there wasn't anybody to really test them in their own league. They go outside of the fledgling SEC and what happens? They lose their only three games against decent out of conference competition (Xavier, Utah, and Texas A&M). Sorry, but when LSU had a chance to show they were something outside of that conference of scrubs, they failed in each opportunity. That is not coach of the year material.
You won't get more than 3 teams in, and quite frankly, you probably don't even deserve 3. But you'll get 3 since you're a major conference. There are stronger at-large teams than South Carolina, for instance, that will likely get snubbed.