(04-02-2019 09:31 AM)CrazyPaco Wrote: (04-01-2019 08:41 AM)esayem Wrote: This conversation is ridiculous. College basketball is and always will be about great coaching. I can rip off countless examples of a coach taking a less than noteworthy program to great heights starting with Frank McGuire at South Carolina and ending with Bruce Pearl at Auburn. The SEC won championships in the 90’s with Kentucky and Arkansas (Pitino and Richardson, two great coaches), multiple in the 2000’s with Billy D at Florida (another example of what a great coach can do). Tubby with Pitino’s crew, etc. Where was the SEC hype when Brady took the Tigers to the Final 4? I’ll give you that one was probably a fluke. Jury is out on Frank Martin.
The SEC is and was a great basketball conference going well back into the day. The Zion of yesteryear, Shaq, went to LSU for crying out loud! This conversation is overblown by SEC fanboys and worried ACC/Big Ten types.
Spending big bucks doesn’t always pan out, but you all know that.
100% spot on. You can't blame the SEC fanboys though, most have probably never watched a full game of basketball outside of late March before this season.
Season ticket holder here for football, basketball and baseball going back 40 years. Former donor of half scholarships prior to retirement. But tell yourself whatever you need to. I don't need your agreement or approval to understand that even a show cause Bruce Pearl would not have been a priority to Auburn basketball had the football money explosion not made it possible.
And you can keep whistling past the graveyard, but the landscape of college sports is radically changing. The nature of amateurism is beginning a metamorphosis that is going to end in some level of compensation. Corporate interest in athletes is going to remain a catalyst for it. And taxation will eventually play a hand as well in finalizing this change.
Within the upper echelon of sports revenue producing schools there will be further consolidation, albeit less numerous defections than in the past, but probably with more impact than past moves. I just don't see a world where money will not be a factor.
But so be it. Also, I strongly suggest that you learn how to make a point without being deliberately insulting in tone, if not language.
And while I won't bring it up again in this thread, I covered recruiting violations in the Southeast for over a decade. Spare me your blind faith in Carolina's alleged pristine record. But, kudos to your legal team.
As to your Hall of Fame coaches, I didn't say you wouldn't have them. I said they would cost you more.