SEC money has done a lot of good for many programs, but probably nobody more than Ole Miss. When Texas A&M and Missouri joined the SEC, Ole Miss’s basketball was largely an afterthought. Back then, they were spending around $2.5 million per year. Now, head coach Kermit Davis is making $2.8 million on his own.
Not that the program didn’t have a few successes along the way — it did — but unless you’re an Ole Miss fan, you’d probably have a difficult time naming an Ole Miss basketball player aside from Marshall Henderson. But with some investment and a new facility, there’s a different feeling around Oxford the last few years.