Dang. It just means more
- Thread starter BIG BLUE GURU
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Just wait till the new SEC Game of the Week Deal is finalized in ‘23.
Talk is the number will include a “B” where an “M” used to reside!
Talk is the number will include a “B” where an “M” used to reside!
Yes. The talk was like 30 million per school, per year, JUST FOR THE GAME OF THE WEEK, before Texas and Okie got involved.
Now??
The rich get richer.
I love visiting ACC boards and their condescending “$EC” posts!!! They spelled it right: college sports has always been a shoot out and the bullets have always been dollars.
The SEC brings the biggest gun to the knife fight!
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Then the Red River Rivalry as another cherry on top?!?!?
I’m getting dizzy!
We might have to gold-plate the John’s at Kroger!
How much is the Texas/aTm game worth to televise? Has to up there with the Iron Bowl and OSU/Michigan.
Then the Red River Rivalry as another cherry on top?!?!?
I’m getting dizzy!
We might have to gold-plate the John’s at Kroger!
With realignment how many of those games will still be taking place? The 4 pod system could end all of those being annual games. I am not sure Texas and A&M even want to play.
According to Paul's comments nothing has been settled as to realignment. But if we go by past history, old rivalries are important and the SEC did what it took to keep them. Playing every conference member every 3-4 years wasn't as important as keeping the rivalries. Moving Bama and Auburn to the East and Missouri to the west when Texas and OU joins keeps every rivalry.
Bama-UT
UK-UT
UGA-AU
BAMA-AU
UGA-UF
OM-MSST
OU-TEXAS
IT would renew Arky-Texas, UF-AU.
I would mine going to 10 conference games with 3 crossovers. From a fan standpoint I wish we would only schedule P5 teams. They don't have to be elite, every conference has teams that aren't great, UK isn't a dream match up against anyone wanting to take down an SEC team any longer. I think quite a few here have said they want Mich St in a bowl. Why chance that, schedule them a home and home.
I think we’ll settle at 9 conference games.
And if Texas/aTm isn’t rescheduled, knock a few million off any Game of the Week deals.
They have to keep those you listed. UGA/Auburn is claimed to be the oldest annual rivalry in the South.
Bama/ Auburn, duh!
Texas vs. Oklahoma, duh no. 2!
UT/Bama . . . best support for the cigar industry left in America.
The Egg Bowl has some history.
I suspect aTm and Texas’s nasty divorce of 9 years ago has mellowed, in-as-much as the aTm president was trotted out REAL quickly to note aTm’s support of the expansion with UTw and Oklahoma.
Hell, maybe Bonfire makes a comeback!
If I’m reading that right, it’s like $78 million per school this year? Damn, that’s a big ass bag.
If we sold our soul, it was for A LOT of bucks.
Our coming Game of the Week deal will be worth a huge multiple of the old CBS deal.
Oh, there will be plenty of SEC games televised whether they are on CBS or another network.
CBS offered $300,000,000 per year. The best game of the week won’t even be in the same time slot. Who wants to wait around all day until 7:00 or 8:00 PM for the best game? We’re not getting any younger.
3/4’s of the US population has a different time perspective. 8:00 pm Eastern is not my bedtime, and I love night games in Kroger, and in general.
300 million?
How ‘bout a billion?
I watch football in person, generally, so which channel sports bars have to tune to means very little to me. An additional seven figure sum to UK means more.
Hence, #Itjustmeansmore!!
$300,000,000 per year…for basically one football game a week, SEC title game, and a few basketball games sprinkled in. Which is more or less the exact same amount Disney offered over ten years. Besides an away game or two, the only home game worth attending next year is Georgia. You’re the only one I’ve seen excited about Disney having exclusive rights!
Very true. My nap slot is the FOX Big Ten “primetime” game at Noon ET/11 AM Central. It was just very comforting to know that the best game was always 3:30 ET on CBS (besides doubleheaders). We shared only with Army/Navy, respectfully, but only after the SECC game.
I liked the 3:30 CBS game, especially when UK was a part of it. I also like the primetime matchups on ESPN, good way to end a day of football. The bonus with ESPN/Disney IMO, they have multiple outlets, therefore multiple prime matchups.
Do you have a link for that? I can only find the 300 million annual value coming from ABC/ESPN, and that is the actual amount agreed upon a couple of years ago, prior to the inclusion of UTw and Oklahoma.
And that increase to 300 million annually (the old deal was 55 million per year) would provide an additional 17.5 million to each school, roughly a 12 percent increase in UK’s income.
But adding the two new schools might run the annual figure to an increase of 20 million per school, per year.
I’d say 95 percent of fans know virtually nothing about it, and won’t much care watching an ABC affiliate instead of a CBS affiliate, for the bigger games.
I’m no more excited for Disney than I would be CBS, NBC, or ABC. It’s all just a flick of the channel to me and most folks.
I am excited that the SEC members will see a huge financial gain.
No, because it doesnt exist. CBS was not getting anywhere close to $300M per year. I for one never liked having the best game in the middle of the day, night games are so much better in every aspect. If you can't handle an 8 pm kickoff on a weekend then life has just passed you by.
This statement screams either “baskeetball fan,” or “troll.”
Hell, if we ever start beating Georgia, I guess even that game won’t be worth attending.
I’ll take a home SEC home football game in Kroger over a season’s worth of schools whose names I’ve never heard in Rupp Arena.
Hey, it’s Saturday . . . I bet Cal played a football school from the Deep South or Stony Brook at Slippery Rock.
Yawn!
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