until possibly the SECT where, as we've seen, over a four day period most anything can happen. I'm also pretty apathetic about the MSU coaching situation, keeping Rick or not keeping him, just because I think we can get a better floor coach than Stans but whoever comes in will likely not be getting top MS players at the clip Rick is currently and has been for a while. I mean its likely we get Pollard with Stans but not so much without him. We all seem to want a consistently winning program routinely in the NCAAs but if you look around the SEC essentially NOBODY but KY and FL really has that anymore. NOBODY in the West wins consistently and outside of KY and FL only Vandy has been decent lately and TN but only while Pearl was around.
Its fine if we want to change out coaches but seriously somebody convince me why should we change the head man at MSU and expect any more success than what new coaches have gotten at Ark, LSU, GA, AL, Aub etc., etc? Nolan Richardson, Dale Brown, Wimp Sanderson, Sonny Smith, Hugh Durham and on an on coaches have all had success in years past at those schools but they all struggle now. And all in all those schools still really probably have as much or more to offer basketball recruits as we do. I'm just throwing my thoughts out there but even in pretty good years for us we get maybe 3 to 5,000 fans for pre-conference games and maybe 7 to 9,000 for conference games. We sell all our tickets but often the Hump is only half full or less because people buy tickets from several hours away and only go to a select number of games. Is that good enough to warrant keeping a upper tier program that is routinely in the NCAAs? Are we even set up to have a BB program that gets to the NCAAs any more than Stans gets us there (even if not so successful once there)? Would like to hear some realist opinions on this because SEC basketball seems to be in a malaise all around as I look at it.
