re: Channel numbers for SEC Network

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good... and i knew there had to be some Vol/Dish connection... dish sponsors their spring game... too random for there not to be some connection.

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Ergen was born into an Episcopalian family[8] in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on March 1, 1953,[6][7] the fourth of five children born to Viola and William Ergen.[9] His mother was one of the first female accountants in the state of Minnesota[8] and his father was an Austrian immigrant who was working in Sweden as a nuclear physicist who left Europe prior to World War II as part of the continental brain drain.[9] His father coined the phrase "China Syndrome".[9] His parents married in Minnesota in 1944 and then moved to Camden, New Jersey, before settling in Oak Ridge where his father accepted a position at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.[8] Ergen received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where he was a walk-on basketball player,[10] and an M.B.A. from Wake Forest University.[1][3][5][6][7][11] He was a professional blackjack and poker player.[4][10][12]

Ergen studied finance at the University of Tennessee, became a CPA, and worked for Frito-Lay before striking out on his own.[

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