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re: Best Plan Ever to Maximize SEC $$ in the Future (Realignment/Expansion)
Posted on 7/8/15 at 9:57 am to CockInYourEar
Posted on 7/8/15 at 9:57 am to CockInYourEar
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College sports is a business, don't let any of the hyperbole about "student athlete" fool you.
1. 9 SEC Game Football Schedule.
-SEC games are worth more than watching a SEC team beat an FCS team. Teams with OOC rivalry games still get to keep those, and everybody still gets two warm up games.
2. Expand the SEC's Geographic/Media market share.
- We need to add schools in states/media markets that don't have SEC schools:
TOP 5 Choices: Oklahoma, UNC, UVA, KU, WVU
- That would create 19 teams as of now in the SEC, but see the next step below....
3. Cut Schools who are NOT needed for that Geographic/Media market share.
- Goodbye: [img]Auburn[/img], Miss St, [img]Vanderbilt[/img] and [img]aTm[/img].
- These schools aren't needed to maintain the state's media market interest, plus they ARE NOT flagships, and everybody knows, the SEC is a Flagship Conference.
You are correct college sports is a business. Unfortunately you are violating several basic business principles.
Rule 1: Know the thing you do and do it well. It would be tough to argue in any business to eliminate portions of the business which have been key to its overall success for years. Especially parts that still play the same vital role they have always played. Auburn, Vandy and MSU are too vital to eliminate. If you don't see the role they play in the success of the SEC then we are waisting time talking about it. I can't do much with micro-thinking.
Rule 2: Embrace needed change. A&M is and has been a huge success for the SEC. Most of the revenue explosion of the SEC network can be directly tied to the $1.40 shares in Texas. Missouri has also been a good addition but not nearly as important as A&M.
Rule 3: Don't make business decisions with your heart. Oklahoma and WVU would be heart choices to add to the SEC under any circumstance. They are a bad business decision. Which is ironic because you started out the OP by touting that "College sports is a business," IMHO if you run a business you might as well run it well. No reason to make bad business decisions just because it is a business.
This post was edited on 7/8/15 at 10:03 am
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Posted on 7/8/15 at 10:16 am to Tigerman97
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Rule 1: Know the thing you do and do it well. It would be tough to argue in any business to eliminate portions of the business which have been key to its overall success for years. Especially parts that still play the same vital role they have always played. Auburn, Vandy and MSU are too vital to eliminate. If you don't see the role they play in the success of the SEC then we are waisting time talking about it. I can't do much with micro-thinking.
Rule 2: Embrace needed change. A&M is and has been a huge success for the SEC. Most of the revenue explosion of the SEC network can be directly tied to the $1.40 shares in Texas. Missouri has also been a good addition but not nearly as important as A&M.
Rule 3: Don't make business decisions with your heart. Oklahoma and WVU would be heart choices to add to the SEC under any circumstance. They are a bad business decision. Which is ironic because you started out the OP by touting that "College sports is a business," IMHO if you run a business you might as well run it well. No reason to make bad business decisions just because it is a business.
Some rules that applies to and transcends business are:
Those who don't adapt, die.
It's not the big that eat the small, it's the fast who eat the slow.
quick summary of other points:
Saying one member is vital, just b/c they were here in the beginning is a personal decision/preference. Adding UNC and dropping one of the 3 mentioned would generate more $ for the conference...the same way expanding to MO and TX already did. Texas has a bigger following that aTm, both on the state and national level. Adding OK and WVU make geographic, media market, and overall revenue sense.Look at travel costs for the schools, or benefits of having teams closer by for visiting fans, or helping to expand a clearly defined geo footprint as well.
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