SEC will partner with ESPN to start the SEC Network worth $1 billion... a year

[burmafrd]

over 13 years? $1 billion works out to $77 million a year or about 7 Million per school. Nice hunk of change but not that huge in this day and age.

 

[Manwiththeplan]

i only dont believe those numbers because the whole draw of the SEC is football, they are average at best overall at the other two major sports. so why would they get this much money for a network that wouldnt show any football games outside of games like bama vs north texas? i guess coaches shows and that stuff could fill it up, but i dont know about 70 million a YEAR

Kentucky and florida's 3 National Championships in the past 6 or so years disagrees. Are they as good in basketball as they are in football, no, but they are definately above averege.

 

[MC KAos]

Kentucky and florida's 3 National Championships in the past 6 or so years disagrees. Are they as good in basketball as they are in football, no, but they are definately above averege.

from top to bottom? would you rather watch kansas state vs osu in basketball or mississippi state vs LSU?

 

[Cythim]

from top to bottom? would you rather watch kansas state vs osu in basketball or mississippi state vs LSU?

Neither?

 

[MC KAos]

Neither?

 

[jobberone]

Kentucky and florida's 3 National Championships in the past 6 or so years disagrees. Are they as good in basketball as they are in football, no, but they are definately above averege.

And SC has won the last two NCAA baseball championships. LSU makes it three in a row for the SEC. And the SEC has won 9 of the last 22 CWS.

The SEC does ok in basketball.

And no neither basketball or baseball are king. Football is.

 

[Manwiththeplan]

from top to bottom? would you rather watch kansas state vs osu in basketball or mississippi state vs LSU?

when you have the premier program in your conference, and another top 10 or so maybe top 5 program in your conference you are above averege atleast.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

I have lived in SEC country and yeah, Baseball is popular but it's not way more popular then it is in say the ACC or the Big 12 and I also don't agree that the SEC is the best Baseball Conference in the Country.

The best Conference is probably the PAC12.

USC has 12 Titles, ASU 5, Az 3, Cal 2, OSt 2 and Stanford has 2 titles. All together, that's 26 titles between 6 schools. That is half the conference with multiple titles. That is way more then any other Conference by a healthy margine. Heck, USC alone has more titles then the entire SEC does (9). Next best conference is probably the Big 12 with 10 Titles.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Best Basketball Conference is, IMO, the ACC. You can make a case for the PAC12 but really, it's making a case for John Wooden and UCLA (which is OK with me because he certainly deserves it). The SEC is really only about Kentucky. Kentucky has 8 of the 11 NCAA championships the SEC has won. The other 3 were Florida with 2 and Arkansas with 1. Other then that, nothing. The ACC has really, IMO, been the best Basketball Conference, top to bottom over time. The Big East has been pretty darn good recently, 3 Championships in the last 10 years and 6 since it's inception in 1979 but the ACC has clearly demonstrated better success over the long hall.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

VaTech aka VPI will wind up in the SEC, I also think NCST will go to the SEC.

Big 12 will wind up with FSU, Clemson, ND and Louisville not sure after that as I have heard other names.

Not necessarily BP. VaTech has talked to the SEC but they have also talked to the Big 12. A lot will depend on the deal that comes out of a renegotiation IMO. VaTech could stay in the ACC but I don't think that VaTech is a sure thing to the SEC. I would not be surprised if that is where they land but I think it still could go the other way. I am very skeptical about Louisville to the Big 12 because the Big 12 has cooled on Louisville based on a Market Study the Big 12 did on Louisville. I think FSU is closest, I see ND eventually and Clemson, well, they kinda screwed themselves with the comments their AD made about the Big 12 recently. It all depends on if the Big 12 decides that it was no big deal or not. Clemson is a program that is OK but there are better options out there. Will be interesting.

Exciting times.