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Message: [QUOTE="Bigpetunia, post: 2640803, member: 1772"] With respect, I believe that "blanket" judgements about entire conferences tend to be over-simplifications. I think that this is especially true with respect to the SEC. The SEC is, first and foremost, a football conference. It is a huge business enterprise that spins off gargantuan revenues. That money stream permits, relatively speaking, a fairly high level of resources dedicated to other sports, and to women's sports in particular, even if those sports are at a low level of priority for individual athletic directors...and even if they operate at a net loss. As a result, whether or not they boast the most successful teams in a given sport for any given year, as they did in WBB last year, they will almost always be a bit disproportionally deep in terms of team representation at the highest levels. That relative depth, in my opinion, skews judgements regarding whether or not they're over or under-rated, because they will generally always field a greater number of "decent" programs than will a lot of less-well-off conferences. Economic disparity rules the day in a lot of ways...or is that talking politics? [/QUOTE]