Apologies for crossing sports boundaries here, but it sort of feels like debating SEC Coach of the Year is equivalent to debating the NBA MVP. Sure, Giannis Antetokounmpo is a once-in-a-generation talent and James Harden is maybe most gifted scorer in the history of the league. But y’all... Lebron James is still playing.
It’s not as if we’re all wholesale invested in the yearly SEC COTY debate. Gary Pinkel won the award in 2014, but it does feel like a fruitless exercise in a league where Nick Saban operates. If you take away Saban from his well-oiled machine, do you still have the Alabama we’ve come to expect over the past decade?