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Posted on 4/22/14 at 6:39 pm to Smoke7024
Our opener is on Sunday night. 2nd time in 10 years. It was a huge success last time. I am a big fan of it on Labor Day weekend.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 6:39 pm to Smoke7024
I hope someone with an opinion that matters is reading this thread. Should tell them everything they need to know considering this is The SEC Rant.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 6:42 pm to Mizz-SEC
Alabama's been playing professional football for 60 years... it wouldn't be that big of a change
Posted on 4/22/14 at 6:58 pm to volfan30
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Our opener is on Sunday night. 2nd time in 10 years. It was a huge success last time. I am a big fan of it on Labor Day weekend.
I think Labor Day weekend is totally fine. They usually have Sunday and even Monday games. That's ok. I REALLY don't want this to become a regular thing later in the season, though.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 7:01 pm to Roger Klarvin
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Awful idea, it would get crushed by the NFL.
agree. +1
Posted on 4/22/14 at 7:01 pm to Mizz-SEC
Don't the NCAA and nfl have contracts to not play on the same day? For the exception of rare occasions.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 7:05 pm to wadewilson
Friday or Thursday night would be much better
Posted on 4/22/14 at 7:06 pm to Mizz-SEC
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Slive told reporters that the conference would host a Sunday night game early in the season.
Rest assured he's talking about the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. Remember that the NFL season starts a week later & have no preseason games on Sat-Sun-Mon of Labor Day weekend...
So Labor Day Sunday is a great night for a feature SEC Game...
Posted on 4/22/14 at 7:07 pm to dallasga6
I think Tennessee is the only game on Sunday that weekend?
Posted on 4/22/14 at 7:09 pm to dallasga6
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Rest assured he's talking about the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. Remember that the NFL season starts a week later & have no preseason games on Sat-Sun-Mon of Labor Day weekend...
So Labor Day Sunday is a great night for a feature SEC Game...
Yep.
But even on LDW, last year ABC tried to get us to play on Monday night, and our AD said no, we'll show up Saturday with the football team, yall bring your cameras if you want.
And they brought their cameras on Saturday.
All of this tit-sucking for TV money might make sense for alot of smaller schools, but for the big schools, the Slives and TV execs need us alot more than we need them.
ETA- 5.5 million approximately for each home game at UGA, just plain old ticket price. Add in all the concessions and tate center and parking passes, it's alot more than what the TV people pay us to broadcast it... and even that TV money, we don't keep, we throw it into the SEC Money Pot for it to be redistributed by Kaiser Slive to all the schools, as he sees fit.
Slive is on thin ice and the weather is getting warmer.
This post was edited on 4/22/14 at 7:14 pm
Posted on 4/22/14 at 7:10 pm to geauxnavybeatbama
quote:I think Slive is talking about a SEC matchup not SEC vs OOC...
I think Tennessee is the only game on Sunday that weekend?
This post was edited on 4/22/14 at 7:12 pm
Posted on 4/22/14 at 7:40 pm to Mizz-SEC
Wow this is retarded 
Posted on 4/22/14 at 8:24 pm to Damn Good Dawg
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NFL sunday, college football saturday.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 9:51 pm to SpartyGator
Friday- High School Football
Saturday- College Football
Sunday- Pro Football
System seems fine to me
Saturday- College Football
Sunday- Pro Football
System seems fine to me
Posted on 4/22/14 at 10:08 pm to AGoodTexan
All of y'all were also against the forward pass
Posted on 4/22/14 at 10:09 pm to Mizz-SEC
I don't think the idea is to really compete with and defeat the NFL broadcast. That's obviously not going to work.
But keeping the SEC brand a constant throughout the week would add more revenue. They aren't going to put Auburn vs. LSU on Sunday night. It will be some mediocre game that most wouldn't watch on a Saturday.
Like someone said - Kentucky vs. Louisville would be a good choice but I think that game gets its own ESPN day anyway. But something in similar magnitude.
But keeping the SEC brand a constant throughout the week would add more revenue. They aren't going to put Auburn vs. LSU on Sunday night. It will be some mediocre game that most wouldn't watch on a Saturday.
Like someone said - Kentucky vs. Louisville would be a good choice but I think that game gets its own ESPN day anyway. But something in similar magnitude.
Posted on 4/22/14 at 10:14 pm to StringedInstruments
I don't know the inner workings of the new sec network deal, but this could possibly take a prime time game away from CBS? No?
Or is cbs out of the sec soon?
Or is cbs out of the sec soon?
Posted on 4/22/14 at 11:05 pm to Roger Klarvin
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Awful idea, it would get crushed by the NFL.
This. Gamblers push the ratings on NFL games and it will crush a college game b/c so much action is on it
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