re: Arkansas, Auburn, South Carolina and Vandy fans have to pay $6.99 to watch their teams

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it is becoming nearly as expensive to stream anything you want as it was to have cable in the first place. It was either going to be that or internet prices sky-rocketing

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this was inevitable when people stated cutting the cord from cable companies.

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I thought that part of the purpose of the SEC Network (and the associated alternate channels) was to not have games be televised through pay-per-view.

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ESPN+ will have the right to stream one nonconference football game and two nonconference men's basketball games per SEC school each season. All told, ESPN+ will carry up to 14 nonconference football games and up to 20 nonconference men's basketball games annually.

Sankey said schools will be allowed to set kickoff times for games shown exclusively on ESPN+.

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You also have to consider that ABC wil also be airing an afternoon game and a primetime game every week in addition to games on ESPN/ESPN2/SECN/ESPNU. There's only so many channels and alt-channels ESPN has. Them broadcasting an SEC team playing a nobody is still way better than paying $50 on PPV or not seeing the game at all (even some conference games) like it was before the SECN