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There's no chance that we don't get paired with aggy. I don't care what anyone on Surly says about little brother. The first time that game is played will be the highest attended game ever at DKR and tickets will go for an absolute premium after selling out in less than 24 hours. No way ESPN and the SEC are going to pass up that revenue to only play every now and then.

This reminds me of that scene in Moneyball "Is there another first baseman like Giambi?" Scouts "no" Beane "and even if there was could we afford him?" Texas and Oklahoma were the Belle's of the Ball. There are no other schools to add that come close to adding that value. And I'm sorry, but teaming up so Purdue can Play Oregon State or Wake Forest against Northwestern. Nobody give an absolute f*ck about those games... Sure USC vs Ohio State. And maybe a Penn St vs Clemson/Miami/FSU make for good TV ratings. Everything else however is dogsh*t. One thing I will give the SEC credit for is at least all of the fan bases care and the schools all try to be better. The other conferences have major problems because they have a bunch of leaches that really offer nothing: Boston College, Duke, Wake Forest, Rutgers, Purdue, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland, etc....... Nobody gives AF about watching these schools play each other in football. There is no value there to be had.

Dude is wasting his time trying to play QB. If he wants to make the NFL his future is on Defense. He doesn't have the intangibles to play QB in the NFL.

Preseason is so dumb and unneeded. Hate this for Ossai.

Since big bad Texas is leaving, they think they can flex their way into PUF now lol.

Missouri won the east twice lol. Folks just listen to the talking heads rather than what's actually going on.

God I hate espn, look how much they have brain washed people. In recent years Texas absolutely physically dominated Georgia, and gave the best LSU team ever all they could handle. This narrative is stupid and needs to die. Our boys from Texas will do just fine against anyone.

Let's fucking go! 🤘🤘🤘🤘

So fucking stupid

Not a fan of Daly's lap around the ump after taking a cut and missing lol.

This team needs some major hitting work on the off season. Kid works the count to a 3-1. He gets the look every hitter is working to get for. And he just stares at a fastball right down the d*ck. Why?

Idgaf about the unspoken rules of baseball. You work the count to 3-0 on a pitcher that is skull f*cking you and you just watch one come right down the d*ck and leave your bat on your shoulder? Swing dammit!

Double post

Streaming is just cable all over again. They all have their own apps and only allow original content on their platform.

Winners and losers from SEC football leaving CBSThe aftershocks of Friday’s news that CBS was dropping out of the running for the Southeastern Conference’s television rights are just beginning to be felt.After a more than two decade relationship, CBS decided it made more sense to invest its money elsewhere as the price tag around the SEC TV rights soared amid a reported large bid from Disney/ESPN. No official deal has been reached yet but the expectation is after the 2023 football season, all of the SEC’s rights will be under the same umbrella with Disney/ESPN.What does that mean? AL.com takes an early look at the big winners and losers from CBS’ decision to walk away and the likely outcome of the negotiations.WINNERS: Disney/ESPNIf Disney/ESPN lands the premier SEC football package, as is widely expected in the aftermath of CBS bowing out, it is the clear biggest winner of this situation. ESPN already had a close relationship with the conference, including launching the SEC Network, but annually missed out on marquee games like the Iron Bowl, the World’s Largest Cocktail Party and the SEC Championship. Landing these rights gives the company all that plus increased scheduling flexibility and no need to coordinate with CBS each week on time slots. It should also lead to increased advertisements and sponsorships as companies now know they have to go through Disney/ESPN if they want their products associated with the SEC’s televised games.Greg SankeyThe SEC commissioner hadn’t had to make a groundbreaking decision until now after taking over the job from Mike Slive in 2015. This could be one of the defining moves of Sankey’s tenure, and while some might be upset about moving away from CBS, the SEC commissioner has his league primed to receive a massive financial windfall with this upcoming deal. Insiders said Sankey has been instrumental behind the scenes working to build consensus among the league’s chancellors and presidents for this move.Paul FinebaumAlready the face of ESPN’s SEC coverage, Finebaum becomes even more valuable to the network as it readies to invest hundreds of millions more into the conference. Finebaum is heavily utilized on SEC Network and ESPN and should factor in to however the company decides to handle these big SEC games. With reports of Finebaum meeting with former ESPN boss John Skipper about a possible role at DAZN, it becomes even more imperative for ESPN brass to keep the SEC’s dominant voice for when it officially acquires the rights.Gary Danielson hatersThe Gary Danielson haters, of which there are many, were delighted by Friday’s news that the SEC games would be leaving CBS after 2023. CBS’ primary SEC analyst isn’t exactly a fan favorite -- some of the criticism is admittedly overblown -- and his legion of haters now know they only have to watch a few more seasons of the former Purdue quarterback. With an expiration date now attached, it will be interesting to see if CBS lets Danielson finish out the contract or if it makes a change for a younger analyst as it recently has with its PGA Tour coverage.Inside the SEC on CBS contract discussionsLOSERS: CBSThe obvious loser here is CBS which has broadcasted the SEC’s premier games since 1996. The network has long had an extremely advantageous deal with the SEC, only paying $55 million annually for the weekly top game, and wanted to keep the relationship going but wasn’t willing to go above $300 million for the TV rights. Instead, CBS will bank the money for what should be a highly competitive -- and expensive -- bidding war to keep its AFC NFL rights. CBS still has the NCAA Tournament and the annual Army/Navy game but will essentially be out of the college football business in 2023 unless it adds a different conference’s rights. Even if CBS does add college football rights -- the Pac-12′s deal comes up in 2024 -- nothing it adds will do the monster ratings the SEC consistently delivered for the network.ACC, Big 12 and Pac-12These three conferences will all fall even further behind the SEC (and the Big Ten) as the league is expected to get a huge financial deal likely upwards of $330 million. Starting in 2023, SEC schools should get at least $65 million each and that number could easily be $70 million, more than double what Pac-12 schools received in 2019. Further, all three of these conferences will lose relevance and exposure with ESPN as it becomes even more financially invested in the SEC. Disney/ESPN will be financially compelled to push the SEC even harder which isn’t great news for the other conferences.FAANG + DAZNThere has been years of speculation that an alternative or over the top platform would make a major play for live sports TV rights but yet again a premier property is expected to stay with a traditional partner. Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google were never serious contenders for these rights, and the SEC was never going to give its best games to an OTT platform like DAZN. OTT might be the future given the way major companies are investing in their own platforms but the traditional players still carry weight for the big TV rights.

https://www.al.com/sec/2020/12/inside-the-secs-decision-to-leave-cbs-for-espn.html Inside the SEC’s decision to leave CBS for ESPNAfter being announced as the next Southeastern Conference commissioner in March 2015, Greg Sankey immediately started thinking about his conference’s next media rights deal.ESPN had the majority of the SEC’s rights locked up through 2034, but the fate of the SEC on CBS package, considered the crown jewel of college football, had long been a source of intense speculation within the sports TV industry. For years, CBS benefited from one of the sweetest deals in sports TV, paying a mere $55 million annually to get the SEC’s weekly top game plus the SEC Championship.After losing long-trusted TV advisor Chuck Gerber, who passed away that same year, Sankey opted to take his time and do his due diligence. In 2018, the SEC hired Evolution Media’s Alan Gold and CAA’s Nick Khan to guide the conference through the future media landscape. He consulted trusted deputies Charlie Hussey and Mark Womack as the senior SEC leadership weighed all of their options.After years of consideration, Sankey and the SEC came to the conclusion it was time to go all-in with ESPN.In a deal announced Thursday, though agreed to nearly a year ago, the premier package in college sports is leaving CBS for ESPN starting in 2024-25. Exact terms of the 10-year deal were not released though sources told AL.com the agreement is for upwards of $300 million annually, a massive increase from CBS’ price.A key component of the deal will be a weekly SEC game on ABC, giving the league a much-desired broadcast platform once it leaves CBS. That will include a regular late afternoon kick like the SEC on CBS time slot but also the ability to feature the games in primetime for ABC’s Saturday Night Football. The strategy will be to “put the biggest games in the biggest places in front of the most people,” Burke Magnus, ESPN’s executive vice president of programming and scheduling, told AL.com in an interview.RELATED: Winners and losers of SEC football leaving CBSMagnus and his ESPN colleagues eyed the top SEC game package for years, waiting for their chance to pitch their plan to the SEC. Sources told AL.com last year landing the entire SEC inventory had long been a major priority for the company. Magnus had buy-in and support from his boss, ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro, and the big boss, former Disney CEO Bob Iger, to pursue a deal. When the conference indicated in 2019 it was ready to have that discussion, Magnus said, “We were ready when the phone call came.”Beyond the massive cash component, a big selling point was the scheduling flexibility that would come with the SEC only having one scheduling partner. Magnus described it as a “one plus one equals three dynamic” where having every football game helped ESPN offer better distribution and exposure that no other entity could offer the SEC. One expected benefit is the league could schedule game times much further in advance without having to wait on CBS’ game of the week pick.The opportunity to maintain a traditional broadcast spot plus the flexibility that comes with ESPN, the SEC Network and ESPN+ was too good for the SEC to pass up. Starting next year, ESPN+ can also air one non-conference game per school and up to two non-conference basketball games.“All of those were important elements of this conversation and led us down the path to decide that the affiliation with the Disney brand, with ABC and ESPN, was going to be the right opportunity for our future,” Sankey told AL.com.One of the looming questions over the deal will be if it will take until 2024 to go into effect. After ESPN closed in on acquiring the SEC rights last year, there was considerable industry speculation that it would also try to buy out CBS early from its contract with the SEC. According to sources, that desire hasn’t gone away, but no high-level discussions have taken place to this point. Magnus didn’t deny there was interest, though he pointed out it was “entirely outside of our control.”“We’re not anticipating necessarily, but this partnership is so important to us that if there was an opportunity to discuss something in that regard, we’re open to that conversation,” Magnus said. “But only if it’s a positive development for all the parties.”Sankey added, “CBS obviously continues to be an important relationship for the SEC and has been for many years, and even in this odd year of 2020, that remains. Our focus has been on the three years remaining in our agreements...and that’s really how we’ve looked at the situation, both at present and as we go forward.”Once the deal goes into effect, it’ll be a significant financial boon for all 14 SEC schools. The SEC schools, which received more than $45 million last fiscal year, will receive at least an additional $15 million from this new deal alone. For ESPN, it will finally get the chance to televise every game it wants, from the Iron Bowl to Florida-Georgia, that CBS had picked for itself for the last two-plus decades.“I think increasingly the media business is about must-have content,” John Kosner, president of Kosner Media and a former ESPN executive, told AL.com. “Not just having a lot of stuff, but having the stuff everyone wants to watch. The SEC games every week that CBS had are examples.”

I can't imagine the level of meltdown in colliestation that would occur if UNC wins this 27-25

Any self awareness threads on texags about the playoffs yet? I'm sure there's got to be one of an aggy giving some UNC fan a spare mask and helping them to their seat and how the UNC fan thinks aggy is the most classy fanbase in America and is now their second favorite team......

Surly gonna have to take it easy on BYU now. HBC is a Mormon Cougar.

Steamin' Willie Beamen style

That conference would be absolutely ideal. The only negative is still having Baylor in the fold but oh well. Unfortunately the piggies and their fans think they get some badge of honor by being in the $ec so them ever leaving is highly doubtful.

I guess you could do this, but we've already been down this road before.... Plains (couldn't really come up with 9th) Colorado Iowa St Kansas Kansas St Missouri NDSU??? Nebraska Oklahoma Oklahoma St Southwest Arkansas Baylor Houston Rice SMU Texas Texas A&M TCU Texas Tech

Agreed, and you can see there is some imbalance of power. Some of those divisions are weaker than the others, specifically the mountain and the Northeast. I also left off Vanderbilt and wanted to leave of Wake Forest. What leads you to believe Houston is 100% going to be included with the big dogs when all is said and done? If the schools all put their media rights in collective pot and split it 64 or in my model 70 ways there would probably already be too much overlap in the state of Texas as it is let alone adding another school that's only relevant once every 10 years or so.