Around the SEC - Basketball Opening Day

[ZedFedder]

#13 TAMU loses to UCF and USCe loses to North Florida. Georgia barely beats Tennessee Tech and Florida is locked in a fight with South Florida.

In other words, great to get an easy win no matter how bad the other team was!

[RockyDog]

Old Mess already had a hooper redshirt and quit the team. This NIL age is getting comical.

Something has to be done policy wise because coaches are hamstrung. They can’t afford to talk badly about these players but it looks horrible when you have quitters on your sidelines or your bench.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Old Mess already had a hooper redshirt and quit the team. This NIL age is getting comical.

Something has to be done policy wise because coaches are hamstrung. They can’t afford to talk badly about these players but it looks horrible when you have quitters on your sidelines or your bench.

Coaches are in a bad position. You have a bunch of immature 18 and 19 year olds and the minute you coach them hard, they jump into the portal. So you either have to coddle them, which is going to hurt the team and them long term, or risk losing a talented player. Now you'd love to say, well just don't recruit those players. But if it was that easy, then everyone would be doing it. Basketball is especially difficult, and it has had the problem the longest, because of the roster size.

[KB21]

Kentucky is going to be a problem this year. They have always had the talent, but now they have real coaching and a real system/scheme.