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re: Pac-12 zooms past Big Ten, SEC in college sports revenue
Posted on 5/25/14 at 9:59 pm to Zamoro10
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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Posted on 5/25/14 at 10:09 pm to Guess
Football and baseball will carry the day.
And then - like the midwest - if the SEC gets some juggernaught in a sport nobody watches - like Penn State and Nebraska in volleyball - maybe people will tune in.
But if the SEC remains non-competitive in a lot of those other sports...what then?
I don't know...the Pac is really good at a lot of shite and still nobody watches. We all focus on football and basketball. Pac can build a network and pretend people will watch these other sports because of a long history of winning - but so what? Nobody really watches anyways.
I just don't see how these networks work longterm - I know the SEC and Pac and Big10 got great initial money deals. But most of the sports are just bragging rights that nobody watches. Even college baseball.
Like I said, if the Pac can't make it work, I doubt anyone else can...because the Pac is supposed to be the conference where everyone loves these other sports...but they don't really.
And then - like the midwest - if the SEC gets some juggernaught in a sport nobody watches - like Penn State and Nebraska in volleyball - maybe people will tune in.
But if the SEC remains non-competitive in a lot of those other sports...what then?
I don't know...the Pac is really good at a lot of shite and still nobody watches. We all focus on football and basketball. Pac can build a network and pretend people will watch these other sports because of a long history of winning - but so what? Nobody really watches anyways.
I just don't see how these networks work longterm - I know the SEC and Pac and Big10 got great initial money deals. But most of the sports are just bragging rights that nobody watches. Even college baseball.
Like I said, if the Pac can't make it work, I doubt anyone else can...because the Pac is supposed to be the conference where everyone loves these other sports...but they don't really.
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