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re: Pac-12 zooms past Big Ten, SEC in college sports revenue
Posted on 5/25/14 at 9:08 pm to Tigersessed
Posted on 5/25/14 at 9:08 pm to Tigersessed
I'm curious what the SEC content would be outside of football season?
Because all I've ever heard from SEC fan - is, it's football, football, football...and sometimes baseball and now rarely, basketball...and pansies out west follow softball, volleyball, track and field, water polo, etc.
So how is this going to work?
Pac-12 network follows the seasons and shows highlights of football games. Is the SEC network just going to show highlights of the football season during the off-season?
Because a lot of SEC schools don't even play year round sports and Olympics sports - and if they do - they don't do it well. What is to watch? The Auburn/Bama football game on continuous loop?
I don't understand these so-called networks...even Pac-12 - which has a fanbase for these sports no one really gives a shite about. SEC has no fanbase for these year round sports and they suck at it.
I don't get it. SEC Network might as well be called SEC Football/Kentucky basketball Network and just show highlights...because that's the only sport the SEC is really competitive at.
Golf, volleyball, tennis, track, water polo???
Who outside of the Pac is going to watch this shite?
It's usually Pac vs. Pac in the finals.
Because all I've ever heard from SEC fan - is, it's football, football, football...and sometimes baseball and now rarely, basketball...and pansies out west follow softball, volleyball, track and field, water polo, etc.
So how is this going to work?
Pac-12 network follows the seasons and shows highlights of football games. Is the SEC network just going to show highlights of the football season during the off-season?
Because a lot of SEC schools don't even play year round sports and Olympics sports - and if they do - they don't do it well. What is to watch? The Auburn/Bama football game on continuous loop?
I don't understand these so-called networks...even Pac-12 - which has a fanbase for these sports no one really gives a shite about. SEC has no fanbase for these year round sports and they suck at it.
I don't get it. SEC Network might as well be called SEC Football/Kentucky basketball Network and just show highlights...because that's the only sport the SEC is really competitive at.
Golf, volleyball, tennis, track, water polo???
Who outside of the Pac is going to watch this shite?
It's usually Pac vs. Pac in the finals.
This post was edited on 5/25/14 at 9:11 pm
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Posted on 5/25/14 at 9:11 pm to Zamoro10
Well SEC softball is apparently better than the west coast brand so maybe we can show a little bit of that.
Posted on 5/25/14 at 9:45 pm to Zamoro10
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I don't get it. SEC Network might as well be called SEC Football/Kentucky basketball Network and just show highlights...because that's the only sport the SEC is really competitive at.
When realignment was starting to roll in 2010, 3 of the top 5 Tier III deals in place were teams with primary college basketball teams (North Carolina, Kentucky, and Kansas). Florida was in the top 5 but not sure how much was football and how much was basketball. The issue being that basketball content is valuable in the off season and the only thing holding back even bigger revenue for basketball is the NCAA tournament.
In the early 70's the NCAA controlled the TV rights for both football and basketball. Along came Oklahoma / Georgia vs the NCAA and football was taken from the NCAA and split between the CFA schools (mostly everybody but the B1G and PAC) and the non CFA schools (B1G + PAC + ??) and those TV media values went from the NCAA to the schools.
If the Big 5 (and maybe someday just 4) left the NCAA tournament and formed its own, that billion or so each year would then go to the schools and not the NCAA. The monetary gap between football and basketball would narrow considerably overnight. People still watch March Madness so those dollars would just switch and not the demand. Folks forget in the past the NIT was the big tournament and the NCAA was the upstart.
In a more simplistic view, football provides the bulk of the money but everything else provides the bulk of the content. There is a place for both in a conference specific network.
Posted on 5/25/14 at 9:59 pm to Zamoro10
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I'm curious what the SEC content would be outside of football season?
Same content as the Pac 12 network for the most part and if I had to venture a guess, even the minor sports will be as popular as anywhere else, which isn't saying much. Basketball will be more popular for the other conference networks, but it's still very popular here. Baseball is actually a revenue sport to a few schools down here and will carry live sports well into June.
Football, the real money driver in this whole thing is just bigger in SEC country than anywhere else, and the SEC will have 10 more games in it's inventory than the Pac. Also, The SEC Network will only have the national network, not 6 other regional networks to provide content for. That's huge. Content is problem for all of these conference networks, but in reality it should be less of a problem for the SEC network especially because of the popularity of baseball. Nobody else has an equivalent to carry into the summer. Hockey is big for some up north, but it's season is the same time as other seasons.
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