I don't buy the whole SEC front office blocking hires given how easily Bama brings in folks like Sarkisian... who was about as toxic as it gets per "how it looks".
Young teams like the Suns and Hawks are obviously bad. Then you have teams like the Spurs and Rockets with washed veterans who suck as well. Hard to watch
Occam’s Razor says probably. I put a fair amount of weight on what that SI reporter said about the league office last weekend, considering he wasn’t even talking about UT specifically. I don’t know exactly what leverage the SEC has to persuade schools not to hire someone undesirable but apparently they were using it.