ESPN pays $2.25 Billion for SEC rights

how nice.

we get stuck with freaking FSN (after a Tech game of course) and freaking Versus.

All of this AFTER TBS (or TNT cant remember which) got booted from our lineup and they were by far the best "off broadway" telecast, and probably reached a hell of a lot more homes than Versus (old OLN network)

SEC gets ESPN and ABC locked down for 15 years.
 
the folks that run the Big 12 contract negotiations should be shot. We're stuck on the grandma's network which nobody gets to see and the SEC is plastered over every TV set in the nation on the biggest sports programming station in the world. Texas needs to get the hell out of the big 12.
 
ABC football is hands down the worst broadcast feed and presentation I have ever seen. An 8 year old with a mic and a hand held camcorder could probably do a better job.
 
Every time news like this comes up, I see the same stuff about how the B12's negotiators need to get on the ball, etc. Who are these people? Who are the people who cut the deals for the B12? Surely UT is represented among this group. How can schools like UT, OU, NU, not have some strong negotiators working on this? I understand the arguments about the number of TVs in some of the states, but come on; Arkansas has how many major metropolitan areas? Lousiana? South Carolina? Other than Atlanta, I can't think of any city in SEC country that is as populous as San Antonio, let alone Houston or Dallas. Who is the somebody who needs to pull their head out?
 
Uh, there's no trolling at all there. The SEC made sure that the new alignment preserved matchups like Alabama-Tenn, Aub-UGA, Florida-LSU, etc. The Big XII was not as strategic in ensuring annual cross divisional matchups (including NU-OU, which was just black hole stupid).
 
It's either #1 or #2. IMO, in the mid-90s, OU-NU would've been considered bigger by most of the country. In any event, it was a bad business decision, regardless of any message board nitpicking you'd like to engage in.
 
Ahh, the problem is my message board nitpicking rather than your trolling, got it, I will cease and desist.

Still, as I said before, I agree that it was a bad decision and not solely from a business perspective. To the point of the post, I'm not certain how much more value the B12 TV contract might have if NU-OU were played as an annual game, but there is certainly SOME value there, and it's likely significant.

But the B12's biggest problem is that it's just not as nationally heralded as the SEC as an overall conference. We have some nice television markets in the B12, but the conference just doesn't have the national appeal that the SEC does, so I don't think we'll ever be able to command close to the same contract values that the SEC can.
 
I used to laugh at people that spent their time cheering for big 12 teams in non-conf and bowl games. Not so much anymore. We need to really build up the reputation of the conf or we will miss out on a huge portion of the college football pie.
 
What if the Big 12 and another premier conference (that together covered half the country, geographically) teamed up to form their own network?
 
Well, the rest of the Big 12 will call Texas fans "arrogant" for pointing out the obvious: That the bulk of our conference is made up of lightweights when it comes to negotiating TV deals.

You think network execs are scrambling to get their checkbooks out to lock down Ames, Iowa? Manhattan, Kansas? Norman? Lincoln? Lubbock?

We're a really lopsided league in this aspect-- where the TV sets are heavily concentrated in the backyards of only a few of its members. We've got to be the most unbalanced of the BCS conferences, for sure.

Any former Big-8 fans who still want to explain to us how you "saved" UT... the bell cow for TV sets in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Austin?
 
The Big 12 lack national appeal. The media treats it as the flyover country conference. People outside the Big 12 region just don't care about OU, KU, or A&M.
 
Oh, and I agree with Laphroaig (did I spell that right?) that OU-NU was the biggest casualty in the formation of the Big 12.

Not sure how it could have been maintained and still come out with divisions that make any kind of sense.
 
They don't care too much about Texas either. Let's not pretend as if the country is just dying to see permanent occupants of the Holiday and Alamo Bowl.

Yeah, I know, Vince Young has a penis the size of a freight train and Vince Young blah blah blah.....
 
With that said, I suppose the media has had enough regard to see to it that Big 12 member schools claim the most Heisman Trophy winners and Football National Champions of any conference in the modern era (since 1950).
 
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