When March arrived, I didn’t envision plans for a controlled burn across the SEC.
Yet we know fires can rejuvenate growth and ensure long-term survival, which is a generous way to frame four coaching changes — potentially five, if LSU makes a move — and a massive outflow of experienced talent from rosters. The offseason isn’t even a day old, and at least seven programs face the task of replacing 50 percent or more of their statistical production, including five teams who finished in the upper half of the SEC standings.
While we’ve all been fretting our place in bracket pools, a pretty stratified hierarchy suddenly became fluid.