FAYETTEVILLE -- The SEC took two major hiring steps at improving its men's basketball programs and image, then the conference caved to TV and undid it.
Since spring, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey hired Mike Tranghese as a "special adviser" on men's basketball and also hired Dan Leibovitz as associate commissioner for men's basketball.
Both moves indicated the all-powerful football conference finally noticed Kentucky has become about it for the league in generating national basketball interest.
Tranghese is the former commissioner of the Big East, back when it was an elite basketball conference.
Leibovitz formerly was an assistant coach under Hall of Famer John Chaney at Temple, was an assistant coach in the Ivy League at the University of Pennsylvania and was head coach at the University of Hartford.