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  1. 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 β€œput 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, β€œWe 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 β€œone 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.β€œAll 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 β€œentirely outside of our control.β€β€œWe’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. β€œBut only if it’s a positive development for all the parties.”Sankey added, β€œCBS 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.β€œI think increasingly the media business is about must-have content,” John Kosner, president of Kosner Media and a former ESPN executive, told AL.com. β€œNot just having a lot of stuff, but having the stuff everyone wants to watch. The SEC games every week that CBS had are examples.”
  2. I can't imagine the level of meltdown in colliestation that would occur if UNC wins this 27-25
  3. 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......
  4. Surly gonna have to take it easy on BYU now. HBC is a Mormon Cougar.
  5. Steamin' Willie Beamen style
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. 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.
  9. Ahhhh the modern recruit continues to self implode.
  10. Agreed completely. College football is NOT a national game. It's a very regional game of fans that like to interact with each other. WVU has been a great member, but I've yet to have discussions with fans of other Big 12 schools that involve WVU. My dream setup NortheastBoston CollegeConnecticutMarylandRutgersPenn StPittRutgersSyracuseVirginia TechWest VirginiaCoastalClemsonDukeFSUMiamiNorth CarolinaNC StateSouth CarolinaUCFVirginiaWake ForestSoutheastAlabamaAuburnFloridaGeorgiaGeorgia TechKentuckyLSUMississippiMississippi STTennesseeMid-eastIndianaIllinoisIowaMichiganMichigan StMinnesotaNorthwesternOhio StPurdueWisconsinSouthwestArkansasKansasKansas StMissouriNebraskaOklahomaOklahoma StTexasTexas A&MTexas TechWesternArizonaArizona StCaliforniaOregonOregon StStanfordUCLAUSCWashingtonWashington StMountainBaylorBoise StBYUColoradoColorado StIowa StTCUUtahUNLVWyoming
  11. Damn, how the hell did Mack go 3-7 vs Kstate? Wtf.......
  12. Bush was an all around RB could do it all. Bijan is very similar.
  13. Y'all wanting all these young guys with hardly any experience are asking for Strong level disaster. If the Urban deal can't be done might as well just keep rolling with dip shit Herman.
  14. Ummmmm what Auburn coach? Not Malzahn I hope.......
  15. This job imho has proven to be too big for OJT. Neither Herman nor Strong took seriously the implications of underperformance. (Charlie's cake is baked good faith approach, and Herman's arrogant taunting players, trying to fight Gundy, LHN double birds) This next staff needs to be well put together. Cronyism and bringing your best buds along can't be tolerated. Bring in the best possible. Obviously this guy doesn't currently exist, but we need Darrell Royal. A no bullshit, top notch X's and O's guy that can lock down the state of Texas and put his guys in the NFL.
  16. Texas cannot hire an up and comer this time. The next HC has to be a proven winner that can step in and finally turn this mf'er around. No more calling up young guys from AAA. Time to go spend money on the ace.
  17. Not really, should've lost to terrible ass Tech.
  18. Texas is teetering on Nebraska level at this point. Getting tired of watching this mediocre bullshit.
  19. Turtle time 🐒🐒🐒🐒
  20. So, lookin like a 94 yard drive here for the cockroaches
  21. This is teetering on being as badly officiated as the Charlie Strong okie st game.... We need to gtfo of this clown ass conference asap.
  22. Does Gbenda come in now or Jacquess?
  23. That CB #12 has looked pretty good though. Even on that catch he was in good position.
  24. I'd take him back. But it'd involve a lot of running, temporary loss of jersey number, and a team captain decision. Something along this lines of this. https://youtu.be/6p3GaCwvUoE
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