Lunardi says doing away with SEC West will not make a difference in BBall...

[fishwater99]

"Here's the thing about the SEC abandoning its divisional alignment
in men's basketball: The presence of divisions isn't the reason for the
league's decline in potential NCAA tournament teams. The reason is bad
basketball, followed closely -- especially in the SEC West -- by bad
scheduling.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of
a group of power conference teams more consistently dreadful in terms
of scheduling than the SEC West. Last year's nonleague schedule rankings
weren't anomalies: Auburn Tigers (No. 339), Alabama Crimson Tide (No. 284), LSU Tigers (No. 235), Arkansas Razorbacks (No. 217), Mississippi State Bulldogs (No. 154), Mississippi Rebels
(No. 101). No wonder the Crimson Tide, in particular, never made it off
the bubble (despite playing very well down the stretch)."

"The SEC will get more teams into the NCAA tournament conversation -- and
the tournament itself -- when its potential "bubble" programs
rediscover the basics: Play better teams and beat some of them. No
amount of divisional hocus-pocus is going to change that reality."

Thanks STANS......

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[RebelBruiser]

I think the goal was to make sure that the best teams in the league were rewarded with their conference tourney seeding.

Therefore, I don't see why Lunardi even needs to address it. You have your 3-5 best teams in the East the past few years, but two teams from the West have received SECT byes each year despite not being as good as other teams that had to play on Thursday. Getting rid of divisions was done to eliminate that and that alone.

 

[MadDawg.sixpack]

the 154th ranked non-conf schedule is still pathetic though.

 

[fishwater99]

In the season before our non-league SOS was #204. Thankfully our new AD understands how to get our team back on track and is not going to allow Stans to be totally in-charge of making the schedule. Our coach doesn't have a clue, is there any coincidence that he was the only coach to vote against abolishing the SEC basketball divisions, I don't think so. Stans has made a pretty good living by hanging up those SEC West banners, that don't mean a thing.
What is he going to do now since he just can't win 20 games and a weak SEC West? I hope this team makes a deep run in the NCAA, but it won't be because of Stans coaching. Next years team should make the NCAA tourney on talent alone. Time will tell...

 

[MadDawg.sixpack]

since our coach "doesn't have a clue" since he was the only one voting against it. What exactly did Stans not have a clue about? I mean wasn't the whole point of this very thread to state that Lunardi says it doesn't mean ****? So please enlighten me as to what we gained by getting rid of the divisions.

You know there was a vote a while back having to do with cowbells that went 11-1. I guess that person was clueless too.

 

[00Dawg]

issue, they simply should've reseeded at the end of season. Since they didn't do that, and we're talking about expanding the number of conference games, seeding is obviously not the only goal here.

 

[fishwater99]

Stans has no clue how to make a good non-conference schedue, so that our team will make the NCAA tourney when we are on the bubble.
Stans wants the divisions so he can win a meaningless SEC West Banner. What do we gain if we win the West and don't even make the NCAA tourney?
Getting rid of the divisions will take away one of Stans main claim of his coaching accomplishments. He will now have to compete to win the SEC, no more of just settling for a SEC West title. Our AD will force him to comptete for real championships and to make a deep run in the NCAA tourney or his *** will be out the door.

To even compare the cowbell issue, just shows how clueless you really are concerning basketball.

 

[MadDawg.sixpack]

"Getting rid of the divisions will take away one of Stans main claim of his coaching accomplishments"

That's a 17ing stupid answer. It means nothing.

 

[fishwater99]

1. It will either force our coach to win more games in the SEC or he will be gone, no-more of those but we won the SEC West claims by our coach.
I want a real SEC championship and I would hope all STATE fans would too.
2. It will help our in-conference RPI once we begin to play SEC East teams twice a year, especially UK, UF, and Vandy.

I am all for making the SEC a better basketball conference and doing away with the divisions is a good start, now if we could just get everyone to schedule better non-conference games.

 

[00Dawg]

have been keeping Stansbury solely on the basis of SECW championships, someone has been doping their water. I give the current and previous one far more credit than that.
Meanwhile, if we don't get a 22-game schedule, those two-time matchups with the better teams won't be guaranteed.