I like the league being tough and every game being a challenge. It prepares you for the toughness of the NCAA tournament.
I'm hoping some of the elite coaches leave the SEC.
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I like how competitive the league is . It also prepares you for the tournament .
We just need the officiating to be better on a consistent basis in the conference
We just need the officiating to be better on a consistent basis in the conference
Mark Pope is a smart coach. He will begin to build this program with returning players that gain experience with multiple seasons here.
I am beyond impressed with how this team has played cobbled together completely from the portal. Coach Pope will win big here once he has the opportunity to build a roster with returnees, select portal pieces and Kentucky caliber recruits.
Nate Oats is the flavor of the month and looks like an NBA coach next season. Let us know when Bruce Pearl wins anything and Hurley is the biggest asshole in college basketball. We got lucky BBN, enjoy the ride.
I am beyond impressed with how this team has played cobbled together completely from the portal. Coach Pope will win big here once he has the opportunity to build a roster with returnees, select portal pieces and Kentucky caliber recruits.
Nate Oats is the flavor of the month and looks like an NBA coach next season. Let us know when Bruce Pearl wins anything and Hurley is the biggest asshole in college basketball. We got lucky BBN, enjoy the ride.
I agreed with you until you had to convince us (and yourself) by talking down some of the other good coaches in the sport. A
It's too early to say that. You can't make any grand proclamations in year 1, when the league is better than it's ever been.
I've often made the claim that there's no sense trying to play the toughest schedule. I want the SEC to be conpetitive.. but we don't really need it to be THIS good.
I want it just how it is or even higher level. That potency drives fan buzz, which drives TV ratings, which both drive recruiting buzz. Which in turn all drives corporate NIL interest, which in turn will drive even more recruiting. Which will lead to even more potency. All in addition to keeping good win opportunities coming down the pike for us to boost our seeding as much as we want it and can handle it, which should be always.
All I want changed about the SEC is the “physical play.”
Finally after a hundred years we’re set up to be the best of the best. With most of the leaders of the old guard on the outside looking in.
Why we still have to have thug ball?
All I want changed about the SEC is the “physical play.”
Finally after a hundred years we’re set up to be the best of the best. With most of the leaders of the old guard on the outside looking in.
Why we still have to have thug ball?
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It is related to the amount of money the school’s have to pay coaches and NIL. The only other conference close would be the B1G10.
This year has been so much fun from a CBB fandom standpoint, I can’t imagine wanting it to get worse. With that said the conference is so good this year it pretty much has to drop off next year, which could still mean 11-12 teams in the tournament.
OP has terrible takes, but this one is in the running
To be the best, you gotta beat the best. We are fine and I love the tough teams every game. It makes it much more enjoyable as a fan versus beating up cupcakes. Our team is down a bit right now but not out.
I think the SEC will be very strong in the tournament. Let’s see what kind of draw we get in the tournament. It could be that this season prepared us for a run!
That actually isn’t true anymore. I came to this thread to make the claim I missed those days
You’re right. I’m just needlessly defending Coach Pope’s hire.
What a weak strawman response. After about 5 years of Pope navigating through seven or eight elite coaches every year in the SEC, I'll return to this post and see if you feel the same way.
And leave the Lord out of this. He doesn't give a crap about basketball unless the players involved grow closer to him as a result.
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Aren't you one of those football first guys that only pays attention to basketball now that the football program has totally hit the bottom of the toilet?
You may not remember, but how did a weak SEC affect Kentucky basketball's success back in the 1990s or even in 2012?
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Hope you're right but I'm pretty sure you were one of Cal's fanboys, who defended him until the very end. A lot of us saw Cal's shortcomings even before things got really bad and some defended him until it was over. I see some shortcomings with Pope such as he seems to have a poor feel for in game coaching as he relies too much on analytics and not what's actually happening on the court, waits too long to call timeouts during the other teams run, appears to be too nice and may be why we're so effective against the good teams and play down to the bad teams and also why we're not getting a good whistle because he's too nice to the refs. Coaches like Oats and Pearl stay on the refs the whole game. Pope just stands there stoically. I'd like to see a lil fire.
We'll see if Pope adjusts or chooses to turn a blind eye like Cal did and we run him out of town too. He seems humble enough to change unlike Cal, who acted like he was the Godfather of college basketball.
How is it a "handicap" to have 7 or 8 very good teams instead of 11 or 12?
Were you opposed to UK beating SEC teams by an average of 23 points per game back in 1996? Did you write Coach Pitino and demand that the SEC become a better overall conference with more parity?
The biggest foes are in March, not in mid-January where you play your third straight top 15 team that beats the piss out of your point guard on the road.
Again, how did a semi-weak SEC hurt UK in 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2012?
One other thing, look at all the bubble teams we have lost to. It seems like every team on the bubble has a win over UK.
If the SEC wasn't so strong, we would already be in 6 seed range, because we keep losing to bubble teams, so having wins over teams like UT and Florida, really helps us
It's okay to lose @ Alabama, we actually inproved in the NET and on KP, just because we played that game, but look at Louisville, they rarely lose, but they're a 7 seed.
If the SEC wasn't so strong, we would already be in 6 seed range, because we keep losing to bubble teams, so having wins over teams like UT and Florida, really helps us
It's okay to lose @ Alabama, we actually inproved in the NET and on KP, just because we played that game, but look at Louisville, they rarely lose, but they're a 7 seed.
He's a football only fan. He hates UK basketball. The only posts he makes on here are troll posts, usually after a loss.
You may want to switch your support to the Harlem Globetrotters. Their games are fixed, but they win 'em all by a lot and that's what matters, correct?
So in other words, you can't answer the question I posed.
Interesting...
The big knock on Rupp Arena is "the fans only get up for the big games". So, here comes the juggernaut version of the SEC and EVERY game is a big game and the atmosphere in Rupp is off the charts.
And then we get the backlash of the faction who wants cupcake schedules and 30-point wins over weak sisters. UK fans are a fickle bunch.
And then we get the backlash of the faction who wants cupcake schedules and 30-point wins over weak sisters. UK fans are a fickle bunch.
I’m a supporter of the Kentucky basketball coach whomever it is.
Coach Pope has accomplished this much in his first season with limited resources. I don’t worry as much about his demeanor because the guy cobbled together a team from the portal (and we missed on the “big” portal players for the most part) and has successfully navigated this conference schedule with injuries to key players.
Mark Pope can coach and motivate players.
One of the absolute truisms is that you can never be too nice.
It sounds like some of our fans want our situation in the SEC to look like Duke's does now in the ACC. I hear posters laugh at Duke's weak schedule and how that not playing good teams will kill them in NCAA tourney. We can't have it both ways. I like, no I love having really good SEC teams roll into Rupp and sit and watch a "kick ass" slugfest game between two really good teams. I really don't like my 2 hour drive to watch a 89 to 37 type win, then drive two hours back home. The TN win was as good of basketball game to watch that we have had in Rupp in a couple of years. The drive home listening to post game was a hoot. To me, that is Kentucky Wildcat basketball. Just one old man's opinion that doesn't count for much. At 79, I don't know how many more years I can make those drives, especially when we have those crazy 9:00 tip offs.
You want to kinda choose a soft path to greatness. If we are truly KENTUCKY then we shouldn’t me looking for shortcuts. We are the big dog in the conference. It’s time to start eating the most.
I have him on ignore. Lol. He's one of 2 football only fans I've done that too. Done it to a couple on here but try to avoid it as I respect differing opinions.
I like the SEC being strong like this. For so many years we got little to no respect. This season it appears the SEC is the big dog on the porch. Hopefully they don't lay a bunch of eggs in the NCAAT like the Big LEast did that one year.
