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Another Reason To Join The SEC ASAP!!


Mar 14, 2013, 7:43 PM
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Slive: SEC Network announcement coming in April

Posted by John Taylor on March 14, 2013, 3:14 PM EDT

AP
Talked about and speculated on for a year or more, the SEC Network is about to take its biggest step yet toward becoming a reality.

Commissioner Mike Slive confirmed to Pat Forde of Yahoo! Sports Thursday that a formal announcement regarding the creation of the SEC Network is expected to be made in mid-April. Slive stated that the conference’s focus right now is on the league’s and the NCAA’s basketball tournaments, after which details regarding the highly-anticipated network will be unveiled.

It’s believed that the SEC Network will officially launch in August of 2014 — “after the expiration of current third-tier TV rights contracts” Forde writes – although a more definitive timeline will likely be detailed next month. It’s also believed that ESPN — as in the Big Ten/FOX marriage — will be a heavily-invested partner in the venture.

In the most recent update to what’s previously been labeled “Project X,” the Sports Business Journal reported there were three issues that were close to being resolved, including obtaining local TV rights from current conference members. Those rights are currently held by the likes of IMG College, Learfield Sports and CBS Collegiate Sports Properties.

Last September, the SBJ wrote that “[t]he Pac-12 had to go through similar negotiations with the rights holders when it started its networks. The league eventually agreed to pay $100 million over eight years to get those local TV rights back.” The website predicted that the SEC would have to shell out even more to obtain the local rights than did the Pac-12.

Regardless of the amount of money the SEC must fork over on the front end to obtain those rights, the back end will likely be flush with cash.

In May of last year, Ole Miss athletic director Ross Bjork was quoted as saying that “the SEC Network will be every bit as big as the Big Ten Network” financially, a projection with which most analysts agree. The past two years, each member of the Big Ten outside of Nebraska — as a “new” member, the Cornhuskers are not yet entitled to a full share — received $7.2 million and $7.9 million from the conference’s network alone. That number is expected to at least double to the neighborhood of $15 million annually per member by 2027.

Thanks to the increased conference footprint with the additions of Missouri and Texas A&M, being on par with the Big Ten Network might be setting the bar a tad low for the SEC’s version. Come next month, though, we may have a better idea exactly how far into the financial stratosphere the SEC Network will climb.

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Dont get to excited threre coot. Its not gonna help the fact


Mar 14, 2013, 7:46 PM
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that your university in stuck in a ####hole

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You tell 'em tigerstripe777


Mar 14, 2013, 7:48 PM
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Fricken nutcase. You need therapy. You do know that right?

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who is tigerstripe777?***


Mar 14, 2013, 7:50 PM
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good,maybe their hoops tourney will actually be televised


Mar 14, 2013, 7:49 PM
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next year.

I've never seen a major conference who's tournament isn't even on TV. I haven't been able to watch one of their games so far and I live in so-called "SEC Country". What gives?

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^^^great point^^^^***


Mar 14, 2013, 7:51 PM
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PS - (I haven't really missed it)


Mar 14, 2013, 7:56 PM
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if they have these delusions of grandeur that I will subscribe to some network to watch the bilge they call men's basketball, they have some big disappointments heading their way.

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Re: Another Reason To Join The SEC ASAP!!


Mar 14, 2013, 7:50 PM
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i nominate tigertorque to do just that. get us in the sec. handle it.

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I second the nomination.***


Mar 14, 2013, 8:00 PM
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null


Just dial 1=800-SECCOCK and


Mar 14, 2013, 7:58 PM
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we're in


POOF!!!!!!

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Orange Googlers Unite

Save Tigernet--Boot the coots(you know who I mean).


What? Those numbers are small compared to the ridiculous


Mar 14, 2013, 7:59 PM
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numbers SEC fans were floating around last year. Some reports said it was going to $20M+ more per school per year right off the bat. Looks like it will a good bit less than that until well beyond 2030.

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Re: What? Those numbers are small compared to the ridiculous


Mar 14, 2013, 9:15 PM
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Those are the big 10 numbers and it will be at least that. At least I hope it will. Nobody knows. Not the sec fans spouting the crazy numbers nor non-sec fans giving the lower numbers. All we know is that the sec and espn think it will be more profitable than the current setup. If they didnt think that they wouldnt go ahead with it. So I expect it will at the the very worst mean more money than we currently get. I am good with that.

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The OP. He's got many handles here.


Mar 14, 2013, 7:59 PM
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There's something wrong with him.

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Re: Another Reason To Join The SEC ASAP!!


Mar 14, 2013, 8:03 PM
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YAWN.....

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Re: Another Reason To Join The SEC ASAP!!


Mar 14, 2013, 10:15 PM
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Yawning is what our BOT's and AD's have done too much of over the years, and that is why we are stuck in the great football peat bog called the All-Cupcake-Conference. If we win the ACC, conventional wisdom and national pundits say that CU and FSU are the only real powers, and should win it every year. If we don't win, the same people say we didn't win a weak conference, therefore no national respect or credibility.

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Who cares. I for one won't be watching the crummy thing***


Mar 14, 2013, 10:36 PM
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