Over at the Greenville News, Manie Robinson has an article suggesting that the SEC is intent on reaching basketball parity with the ACC and that coaching hires is going to help that a lot.
We’ve made similar points about the ACC over the years, arguing a few years ago that the ACC was in the doldrums because of mediocre hires (mostly since fixed) and the SEC has definitely made some good hires of their own lately. Just this spring, SEC schools hired Eric Musselman, Nate Oats, Buzz Williams and Jerry Stackhouse.
And that adds to a pretty solid coaching roster as you see below.