Our favorite lunatic is at it again

Anyone want to put this on the Tiger Rant to see if you get any takers?

Dude has to be psychotic

The projections on both sides of SECN money is hilarious.

Read up to the part about 400k Aggies can't deliver 8 million homes or something or the other. Well how many living teasips are there? I just don't get this argument. Austin had incredible ratings for A&M Alabama. People don't just watch the teams they are passionate about in a positive manner, and not all people are only people support one team. A lot of people just follow winners. A ton of people supported Manziel and ten years ago supported VY. I would say that it might even be the majority of the households in the state fall in to this category.

Also, why the frick does he care? Is it all just a bit? Can he really not validate anything positive about A&M? Does he really live in this crazy world? When they start going of on College Station vs Austin thing, I laugh. Austin is awesome. If that was a tiebreaker for kids, and maybe for some it is, I can't blame someone. But they don't ever say that about Norman, which is a College Station clone. They never say that about Tuscaloosa, Gainesville, Tallahassee, etc. Its just like politics. People's emotions blind them. They hate us, and they can't genuinely feel anything positive about us. It's usually a maturity thing, but some of these shaggy/orange bloods people have to be in their 30s of 40s, so I just can't tell.

His logic is that there is no way the SEC Network model works that way even though that is how the B1G Network has operated since day one.

By his example, Rutgers is worth more than 99% of college football programs because it makes NYC cable providers pay in state rates. No way they agree to that, he says. But then we get news not only did they agree they agreed long before the deadline. Why? Because this business model is boilerplate now.

What everyone is missing is that unlike most of the channel on your dial, networks like the SECN and B1GN provide a VERY important benefit to cable providers- they prevent cord cutting.

There are thousands, maybe millions, of younger men in America who basically have cable for football. The best market in the US, men ages 20-35, becomes hooked and used to paying for cable but only if you give them access to the content they want.

Men in this group don't care about the reality TV, talent shows, or almost anything else driving television revenues these days. For this market, without sports you give them very little reason to pay the $100+ bill every month.

If you can keep all those men locked into a $100+ bill for $1.40 a month, you do it. Heck it is worth cutting that out the marketing budget to do it- no "campaign" will bring as much positive goodwill with the best demographic in America than having the best sports product you can have.

This is about the battleground of the future, and winning the hearts, minds and wallets of the next generation.

On the flip side, we don't know what exactly the SECN is getting. We know what they got for the instate rate, but we don't know if that is an average or a set amount for the region. We don't know if the SEC splits profits or revenues. We don't know how much the SEC office will keep. We don't know what ESPN is going to pay for Tier 2 games that don't drop to SECN (aka the ones on ESPN 1 and 2).

We don't know jack. No one will know jack until a year after when the universities release the numbers. Any chest beating or butthurt about money is premature. The chest beating should be about distribution, and how SEC fans won't suffer like Texas or PAC 12 fans have suffered.

One thing no one factors in: for every Comcast subscriber that pays $7 to $10 for the sports package to get the SEC Network out of state, Comcast recoups 7 times the amount they pay per subscriber in state. That means, if you assume 1 out of every 8 subcsribers outside the SEC footprint do this, they more than make up the difference.