Comments on: The BCS is Now Officially a Four Letter Word

By: Barking Carnival — Blog — March Madness May Move to Cable

Barking Carnival — Blog — March Madness May Move to Cable — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:43:03 +0000

[...] Last year the NCAA looked on with envy as the BCS, despite a down economy, hit pay dirt with a $500 million dollar deal to move their games off of broadcast TV to ESPN. [...]

By: Atomic Teeth » Blog Archive » BCS on ESPN; Fox Out

Atomic Teeth » Blog Archive » BCS on ESPN; Fox Out — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:08:55 +0000

[...] see the folks at Barking Carnival has a post up about this very topic. There’s some consternation that the relationship is problematic because ESPN and SEC are [...]

By: Sports Jesus

Sports Jesus — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:44:42 +0000

What have I created…

By: srr50

srr50 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:15:07 +0000

ESPN is not going to be airing ALL of the SEC games. CBS and the SEC renewed and extended their contract literally a month or two before ESPN picked up the rest of the games. Step away from the ledge, people.

Actually it is the combination of the two that makes the SEC the media leader. The only college football CBS will be packaging will be the SEC Game of the Week.

All of CBS’s marketing of college football will be the SEC.

They share the Basketball rights as well — and they are the home of March Madness.

The combination of CBS drooling over the SEC (just listen to Gary Danielson on Saturdays) and ESPN pumping the SEC at every turn gives them a great media platform that no other conference can come close to.

By: Big Satan

Big Satan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:21:08 +0000

By: p

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:40:21 +0000

With ESPN airing and promoting all of the SEC games it effects the masses perception of the conference. The same way hyping USC in 2005 did. People assumed Texas had no chance because ESPN told them USC was the greatest college football team ever.

The SEC will be perceived as the mini NFL(It’s already bad enough now). I wouldn’t be surprised to see two SEC teams end up in the national championship game, if the only loss of the other was in their conference championship.

Living outside of Texas(NC), the vibe has already swung that way. When the subject of football comes up it always turns into “the SEC is the best conference in football”. Most fans don’t actually watch the games, they just watch the highlights and regurgitate the sentiments of the analysts. They don’t know LSU was down 29 to Troy at home, or that Bama lost to Louisiana-Monroe. All they know is the SEC mudholed Ohio State twice, ND, and Hawaii and that qualifies them as untouchable. This deal will only make it worse!!

By: Mysterious Package

Mysterious Package — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:25:44 +0000

Big 12 needs to jump on or get runover.

By: Big Satan

Big Satan — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:19:08 +0000

Forgive me if I’m mistaken, but the SEC deal signed by ESPN was for the Twins style after-birth. CBS Still has their deal in place with the SEC that allows them to cherry pick the best gamens each work. There will still be a substantial SEC presence on CBS. Not that this nullifies anything you’ve said…

By: Harold Reynolds

Harold Reynolds — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:41:36 +0000

There are a lot of great looking ladies who work at ESPN

By: uthookem

uthookem — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:42:16 +0000

If Obama gets a college playoff for D1 football, his presidency will have been a success.

Hook ‘em!