The SEC has consistently had more ranked teams and NCAA Tournament selections than any other conference over the last five years. A record nine SEC teams, the most from any conference ever, made the tourney this year.
There are more bids because there are more teams in the SEC now, and the league still sucks when it counts! The top team (a #1 seed), didn't even make it to the regional final. The second place team got blown out by 18 on the first weekend. The third place team lost by 55! You would think adding more teams, including a program that has won a championship more recently than Tennessee, would actually IMPROVE March performance. Instead the league as a whole has never been worse.
The ACC is the only conference with an argument based on top-to-bottom success and NCAA bids and the only national championship they have won in the last 22 years came by a school that isn't even in their conference anymore.
Invalid argument, as 16 of the last 22 championships have been won by 2 teams. By that logic every conference sucks besides the SEC and Big East/American.
UConn dominating doesn't make the American the "premier conference," neither does Notre Dame consistently being in the Final Four give the nod to the ACC.
Even UConn fans will tell you their conference is a joke. Notre Dame consistently making the Final Four, and Syracuse making it this year, absolutely gives their conference a strong argument (as much as Holly fans would like to ignore insignificant accomplishments like the Final Four).
Despite her success, you don't like Holly, that's clear. You're entitled to that opinion.
It's not that I don't like her, but she isn't a good coach. And because of your position, you can't/won't voice an objective opinion on her.
But saying Jim Foster was a better coach in the early 1990s when 10 programs in the country were capable of making a Final Four than Holly is today is silly.
Then I guess 6 of those programs were in the SEC, since that's how many made a Final Four in the 90's. But tell me more about how much easier it was to win in the league back then. As far as how much harder it is now to make the Final Four, Syracuse and Washington pretty much shot that weak argument down.
I never said Foster was better, but I think the two are very comparable. His first few years at Vandy were very similar to Holly's first few years here. And the fact is the two have split their last two games against each other, both dogfights with Foster having far less talent. If Foster was coaching the Lady Vols, they still would have made it to the Elite Eight but I doubt they would have gone farther....
