re: Pac-12 zooms past Big Ten, SEC in college sports revenue

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I don't really see why the SEC would be any different than any other conference.

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Future - yes.

Traditional fanbase - no.

SEC - besides Kentucky hasn't really been a hotbed in basketball.

SEC has a relatively short history of success and attention in baseball - circa 1990's - present.

SEC and women's sports NCAA titles?

SEC and non-football titles?

Florida is the best all-around SEC program by far - I can see them carrying the conference as you say.

LSU and Arkie are good as well.

Florida is the closest the SEC has to UCLA, Stanford and USC. But so what?

Doesn't matter how successful you are in these sports.

Pac-12 has captured 450 titles, outdistancing the next conference by nearly 200...and has led or tied the nation in NCAA Championships in 47 of the last 53 years.

For the eighth-consecutive year, the Pac-12 had the most NCAA titles or tied for the most of any conference in the country, winning at least six every year since 2000-01.

It's the king by far of all these "other sports" besides football.

But NOBODY CARES anymore. It's a football world...especially in the SEC.

So yeah...and the Pac is a conference grown up and bred on these "other sports" with a fanbase who actually kinda likes these other sports...and still...the Pac Network will struggle.

I don't believe for a second SEC fan is going to watch volleyball...if the Pac fan isn't watching it either.

All I've ever heard on this board is everyone deriding every sport but football and baseball and sometimes basketball. But really it's football and nothing else.

I know homers come onboard if say the golf team does well - and suddenly they're golf fans...but that's not a real fanbase...considering the derision of "pussy sports" common on this board about Olympic titles.

I think the SEC network knows their fanbase and won't be showing all these other sports - it will be repeats of football - and old glory days of baksetball with some LSU baseball from the 90's sprinkled in.