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Quite an afternoon here on this Monday after the blizzard.

Welcome back in to everybody hope

you're safe wherever you are and michael is up next in new jersey hello michael hey paul

how's going very well thank you um my question is just about over the last couple years we've seen

maybe the nil but just overall the Big Ten some other

conferences step up and in football and basketball is a little more sporadic

and there's other conferences around what do you think that the SEC needs to do

to get back on top and what programs do you think need to play the biggest parts

in this takeover that needs to happen yeah Michael, Michael, I don't think there's a

specific answer because the SEC is not a collective team. It's 16 individual schools. So you look at

last year on Selection Sunday, five SEC schools made it more than anyone else. So that gave them a

really, really good chance.

But they all faltered. And I think it, I'm not going to review the whole tournament for you,

but the biggest surprise early on was Texas A&M losing at home to a much lower seed. Then you

had Georgia losing to Ole Miss. And I think there became the problem.

A&M and Georgia were among the very best teams in the SEC. Alabama was never going to do much.

Ole Miss exceeded expectations. Oklahoma was never going to go very far. So, you know, what happened the year before?

I can go through a litany of things which I'm not going to. It's going to take a school like Georgia to play well in the postseason.

And if I had to blame the school for the SEC's problems, the last three years, I would say it's Georgia.

Three years ago, they had the best team in the country.

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