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So Sankey pretty much let the SEC be the appetizer lead-in to the Big Ten this season...

Posted on 9/18/23 at 11:25 am
Posted by GreyReb
Member since Jun 2010
3898 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 11:25 am
I mean WTF Sankey? CBS isn't even sending their A Team to Tuscaloosa this weekend, opting instead for Iowa Penn State.

Sankey got straight murdered on this latest TV deal. The worst thing he has done as commissioner.

ABC/ESPN are hot garbage at broadcasting games.
Posted by TigerFreak10
Member since Jun 2017
129 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 11:27 am to
No Danielson? Count your blessings ??
Posted by Ghost of Bob Horner
Somewhere between Atlanta & Athens
Member since Jul 2023
410 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 11:30 am to
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CBS isn't even sending their A Team to Tuscaloosa this weekend


We lost out to Iowa and Pedo State? That's just embarrassing.
Posted by GreyReb
Member since Jun 2010
3898 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 11:30 am to
I'd rather get the A Team Production Quality
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
Markey's bar
Member since Oct 2008
84856 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 11:33 am to
The relationship with CBS really went down in the later years, no idea the reason for that but not sure you can blame Sankey.
Posted by Ancient Astronaut
Member since May 2015
33077 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 11:39 am to
CBS was taking all sorts of shite at SEC.
Posted by Krampus
Member since Nov 2018
5207 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 11:43 am to
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The relationship with CBS really went down in the later years, no idea the reason for that but not sure you can blame Sankey.


By all accounts, CBS didn't want to pay up for the marquee game of the weekend. CBS placed a high value on the exposure of nationwide broadcast tv, and the SEC wanted the cash instead.
Posted by Cocotheape
Member since Aug 2015
3782 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 11:47 am to
CBS got a discount for years from the SEC and didn’t want to match the ABC/ESPN bid. Not sure what Sankey is supposed to do?

Regarding the specific situation with commentators this weekend, it’s a lame duck year with CBS, what difference does it make?

I have reservations about the deal Sankey made (all with one broadcaster, deal signed before Texas and OU added, etc), but you guys who bitch endlessly need to put things in the proper perspective OR realize that ESPN has no better or worse political leanings than any network offering a deal.
This post was edited on 9/18/23 at 11:48 am
Posted by dawg-fan#1
Athens, GA
Member since Nov 2012
1221 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 11:53 am to
We had 4 minutes of commercials before 1 play that was a 4th down punt just for them to go back to commercials for another 4 minutes.
frick CBS
This post was edited on 9/18/23 at 11:54 am
Posted by Oilfieldbiology
Member since Nov 2016
37492 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 11:57 am to
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CBS isn't even sending their A Team to Tuscaloosa this weekend, opting instead for Iowa Penn State.


Says more about ole miss and Bama than it does CBS
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
90598 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 11:59 am to
SEC has become a joke in the span of a year.

1. Terrible broadcasts
2. Terrible on field product

We aren’t much above a G5 conference now. I expect viewership to decline and Disney will hemorrhage money and not be able to pay out the contract. This will lead to decline in revenue and the top teams will jump ship to ACC or B1G and the conference will implode like the PAC.

We are done. It’s a matter of time
Posted by Jon Ham
Member since Jun 2011
28587 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 12:02 pm to
quote:

No Danielson? Count your blessings ??


This. He’s the worst in all of sports.
Posted by BearRebelShark
Member since Jun 2019
296 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 12:06 pm to
quote:

CBS isn't even sending their A Team to Tuscaloosa this weekend, opting instead for Iowa Penn State.

Where are you seeing this?
Posted by Hargojargo
Member since Nov 2020
296 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 12:41 pm to
The relationship with CBS soured because the SEC signed a long term deal with them long ago. The early years of the deal heavily favored SEC. As time went on the deal began to favor CBS. SEC wanted CBS to walk away from the good deal they were now in and restructure the contract . CBS wouldn’t.

Lesson here is don’t sign long term deals if you think the value of the product will keep increasing. Or structure the payments in such a way that they increase yearly at an acceptable level.

Just money people on both sides being counts.
Posted by Ssubba
Member since Oct 2014
6616 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 12:42 pm to
The Florida Tennessee broadcast was top notch. That's what we're going to get next season.
Posted by Henry Jones Jr
Member since Jun 2011
68504 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 1:45 pm to
As long as the checks keep coming from ESPN, I don’t care what the video quality is
Posted by BevoBucks
H-town
Member since Dec 2022
3956 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 1:47 pm to
quote:

As long as the checks keep coming from ESPN, I don’t care what the video quality is


Posted by Diego Ricardo
Alabama
Member since Dec 2020
5918 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 1:49 pm to
The ESPN in 4K broadcast on YTTV was fantastic looking. Herbstreit and Fowler is the best overall pair in the sport. They will be calling most of the biggest SEC games next year.
Posted by lsu777
Lake Charles
Member since Jan 2004
31042 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 1:49 pm to
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CBS got a discount for years from the SEC and didn’t want to match the ABC/ESPN bid. Not sure what Sankey is supposed to do?


he should have broken the contract up and bid it out like the BIG10 did. instead we have shitastic quality broadcast like was saw in bama vs usf.
Posted by TutHillTiger
Mississippi Alabama
Member since Sep 2010
43700 posts
Posted on 9/18/23 at 1:56 pm to
Seriously frick CBS. I remember in the 70s having to listen to LSU —USC (who was number 1) on the radio because the cbs local game was something like Iowa State -Purdue.

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