Monday Morning Tomahawks  06.14.10

Will be a safety not a WR. But he will still have a learning curve.

But I felt all the linebackers looked lost and reckless at times, hopefully with this new weight, determination, and new staff turns nigel into a player some might not thought he coulda been, maybe one of the best on the team come season end imo

BOOM ROASTED!

I don’t have the lifespan to remember things he did early on when he was establishing his legend.

I worried several times that we would go small when we needed to hit away, but that mistake didn’t happen.

Baseball, especially college baseball, is a funny game.

First of all, I would still like to see how the SEC expansion situaion would pan out if the Pac-11ish doesn’t expand to 16 and demolish the Big 12. Personally I don’t see any options for them to take with TAnM to match at 14 since Missou has expressed their desire to remain and Kansas won’t leave the Big 12 unless Texas does. And I really don’t believe the ACC will be dismantled in an effort by the SEC to expand to 14. 16, maybe. But not 14. And that logic is simply based off of everything I have read here.

1. Fun ESPN fact: The ESPN contract with the SEC (and ESPN alone) is worth 2.25 bil over 15 years, right? The ACC deal, as has been reported, is worth 1.86 bil over TWELVE years. Now for you non-math majors, that means the ACC is earning 155 mil a year from ESPN versus the SECs 150 mil. Thats 5 million more. Not a huge sum, but I look at it as a token of investment all the same. ESPN will now be invested in the ACC as a whole, and I think that represented image will improve with gameplay.

2. Reference those contracts: ESPNs deal with the SEC was clearly for ALL athletic events. It was hammered out quite clearly in detail. Vanderbilt table tennis will be in ESPN2 for crying out loud. (/sarcasm) The ACC didn’t get such a deal. Not in anything I’ve read, anyway. Which means that the rights to baseball, golf, or whatever are still up in the air. The stuff most folks wouldn’t pay for. And we don’t have to, per our contract, while the SEC still does.

Also per our contract, there is a very specific clause (apparently) that allows for third party venues to purchase broadcast rights. This has to be specifically done because both the ACC and ESPN know that there are only 24 hours in a day and only five or so ESPN channels to broadcast the Vanderbilt table tennis on. So simply put, ESPN won’t be able to use even all the football and basketball rights they own. If they sell them to Raycom or whover, at least they’ll earn SOMETHING from the event. And the contract (apparently) clearly states that ESPNs broadcast of ACC events won’t change much from what they’re at right now. So for whatever reason, ESPN has little interest in increasing the amount of ACC material they will use. Owning it outright or not.

http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2010/05/17/daily2.html

Which brings me to the ACC Network idea. It shouldn’t be difficult at all (in theory) to purchase the rights to ACC football and basketball events. There would be a price involved, for sure, but if we’re talking about something Raycom or SunSports can afford, it can’t be too hefty. But the key here is a combo Pac-whatever/ACC network buying those rights for additional broadcast material. Some could be live, and some could be post-game rebroadcast for an even cheaper rate. (Duke and such.) These are not hugely cost prohibitive ideas, people. Add to that the fact that all remaining ACC athletics could be used at NO cost and you’ve got a ton of ACC and Pac-whatever material available.

Next is the available market share analysis…

Here is a link to the top 210 viewership television markets in the US:

http://www.tvb.org/rcentral/markettrack/us_hh_by_dma.asp

A previous comment was made that a Texas merger into the Pac-10 would give a PTN six or seven of the top 25 viewer markets. Well, looking at this linked chart, you can see that the ACC also represents well in the top 25 with seven of the top 25 television markets. (Nine if you go so far as top 27.) This should appeal to the potential advertisers on a PTN since, under the current allignment without Texas et al, the PTN would hold seven of the top 25 spots (most of that being California markets).

To double said network into viewership in sixteen of the top 27 television markets in the US would be a rediculous thing to pass on.

We would have to repurchase the rights that ESPN paid for at that inflated price.

Then we’d have to sell the rights at an equally inflated price (hoping to get lucky for 2nd time).

JUST TO BREAK EVEN

1. Missouri

You talk about suing for peace? If A&M bolts for the SEC and Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and likely A&M replacement Kansas all leave for the Pac-16, Missouri is screwed.

Big time.

Maybe the most screwed team in the annals of major college athletics.

With the remaining “Big 12” schools of Iowa State, Kansas State, Baylor and Missouri, you tell me what conference in America is salivating for any of those as a package.

Even Conference USA is turning up its nose at some of them.

Would Iowa State even get an offer to the Mountain West?

Doubtful.

My point: Missouri is the best of an otherwise putrid lot.

What’s more, the Tigers bring several major, if unconventional, assets.

a. A solid television presence in a new market

St. Louis is the 21st largest television market in the country. That would be the fifth largest current media market for the SEC. But that’s just part of it. The state of Missouri, which the Tigers dominate unlike any other available state university — that is, there is no fungible alternative at the collegiate level within the state borders — would also be the fifth largest state in the SEC behind Texas, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee.

It’s nearly six million residents are an entirely untapped market.

With Missouri you’d also get a significant reach into the Kansas City media market.

This means the addition of Missouri wouldn’t anger anyone in the conference. Can the same be said of Florida State, Georgia Tech, Clemson or Miami?

That’s a big deal given that Slive has said time and time again that one of the things he most loves about the SEC, a conference with $50 annual membership dues and no buyout should a team depart, is the collegiality among the members.

Many fans focus on the strength of the teams as a determinative factor. Actually, in a league as competitive as the SEC, adding teams is likely to make some teams uneasy because many feel the league is already tough enough. But adding Missouri, especially in football, doesn’t really alter the balance of power in the conference because none of the traditional powers will see the Tigers as a threat.

Add up these factors and Missouri offers the best profile for number 14.

And I would think schools would join in 2012. If FSU had 2 full seasons under its belts and 2 full cycles of recruiting, and being able to tell prospective recruits, “You will play for us in the SEC now”, I think we’d definitely be “ready” to join the SEC. And if the SEC expands it’s in our best interest to join.

it impacts us.

I went on friday and lost 2 pounds sitting in the stands….And I drank a powerade bottle 7 times (powerade the first then 6 refills of water) during the game. Awesome to win but pretty unbearable to sit in the stands the entire game.

Nine votes is all you need.

Jokers Wild reference here on TN.

I have knowledge from a good source that the SEC is planning a full on invasion of all the other conferences. The source says that once the SEC has full control over college football it will implement its main objective of taking over the United States. As I type, the SEC is building offices next to every state capital building in the US and soon every Governor will be a mere puppet of the SEC. Once this is done, Saban will overthrow Obama and will be the dictator of the UGSECSA (United Greater South-Eastern Conference States of America). Meyer will be appointed as a delegate to the Philippines.
Disclaimer: This might not be true but it was a from a good source (This is not to be taken as mocking TN members with viable sources, just a joke)