Thanks SEC

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Pop! You hear that? Well, I did! It's a bubble being busted! No, not St. Mary's or Va. Tech or Penn St. It's the bubble surrounding the SEC!

SEC, the captain of the BCS. Georgia, LSU, Gators, Bama! Tim the Tool Man Taylor is perking his lips going " Ughh-Ohhhh." Lsu, Gators, Dawgs, Tenn. all have big BCS football wins! I hear it all the time, from everyone down here, we are football nation!, we produce great athletes. ESPN should have game down here every week, even if its Miss. State vs Vandy. It's the BCS power house. It's a good debate and I am sure ESPN (which is great for football coverage) would agree, however, BCS has its name attached to basketball. They measure SOS and RPI basically based on BCS conferences, because they are the conferences with the deepest talent. Well, almost all of them.

Well, SEC, you messed that up! No it wasn't Bama losing to the Utah or the Heisman winner losing to Michigan in the Capital One Bowl two seasons ago. It was the claim of Basketball to BCS conferences.

SEC you put one more team into the big dance this year then the Horizon (some of those schools don't even have football teams), yeah Cleveland knocked Butler off to give them two. Well, Miss. State won your conference tourney, to get get your third spot. Actually you may have knocked one of your own top teams out with Miss State's win. Miss St. finished behind the University of South Carolina, which shared a Co-Championship with Tenn ( Gamecocks didn't make it and get a spot in the NIT because they won a share regular season championship, of the EAST). Miss St. finished behind Auburn which came out of no where (there isn't a comparison for it that's how far they came) and didn't make the big dance!

Stop! Don't Give me the We won Back to Back with the Gators. All I have to say is that your Tourney champions from last year were Cinderella's cousins and finished 3-13 this year (in the sec). Come on! Your days of Kentucky rich tradition are gone, oh by they way, you let that coach go and he's got a team Minn. (big ten, ouch) in the tourney.

Back to the point. An area proud in athleticism, talent, and such lacks that in basketball now. The SEC doesn't even have it's team richest in basketball tradition in the dance, the regular season champs are seeded 9 and 8 ( Gamecocks split a championship with Tenn and didn't get the invite). Seina (MAAC) are ranked as high as of your East SEC champs/ tourney runner ups. Again, defending tourney champs from the prior year finished 3-13 and were knocked out in the first round. What's worst about that is their in-state rivials beat a top 10 team in their tourney (GT beat Clemson and almost beat FSU, ACC runner up).

If I were the MWAC, WAC, MAC and other football conferences which has a possible two or three teams out of all the mid-level conferences threaten the BCS each year. I'd use this as a point to break up the system or idea how BCS are power conferences. The point of the fact that the conference with the "choke hold" on the BCS can't produce a powerful consistent basketball team. Utah and BYU, teams that were the mainstream of opponents of the monolopizims of BCS conferences have teams ranked higher then the SEC or as high as one of its regular season champs.

So basically my rant is to say thank you! Thanks for taking Penn State out of the tourney! Your mid-level basketball conference took a decent team out of the tourney. Your conference is so good that your top two teams, if they win their first game will play number 1 seeds day 2. Then your tourney winner is a 13 seed! Which actually has the best chance of an uspet!