With the money from football, SEC programs can now spend money on their BB programs, as well as others. Football is the key - at least as of 2-3 years ago, even at UK they made 2 or 3 times as much on football as on basketball. Men's BB can be profitable in contrast to almost all other programs.Basketball has definitely taken a step forward in the SEC. There's not much that makes money that gets by those folks in Birmingham.
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