Posted by ccv
on May 22, 2012
in Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, BCS, Business and Sports, College football, ESPN, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mike Slive, Mississippi State, Ole Miss
The SEC is looking to start its own network
Want to know why a conference that is already the most powerful college football conference in the country adds two new schools it doesn’t necessarily need? It does so because now the SEC can renegotiate its television contracts with both CBS and ESPN, the two networks that own the rights to SEC football games in the fall.
As you’d expect, given the television deals that have gone to the Pac-12 and the Big 12 in the last year, the SEC will be looking for more money from both ESPN and CBS for the right to broadcast games, though that’s not the end goal here.
According to Sports Business Daily(subscription), the SEC is once again looking into the idea of starting its own SEC Network, much like the Big Ten currently has.
read more: cbssports.com
Posted by ccv
on May 21, 2012
in ACC, Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, BCS, Big 12, Business and Sports, College football, conference expansion, ESPN, Florida, Georgia, Jim Delaney, Mississippi State, Mizzou
New bowl game means football Final Four is coming
In the ever-changing world of college conference realignment, the calm never seems to last very long. Blink, and the paradigm shifts. What appears to be a condemned disaster area one moment can make a miraculous turnaround in a matter of months.
This is the biggest, craziest high-stakes game of musical chairs the college sports world has ever seen. For proof of that, who could have imagined 12 months ago that the creation of a Southeastern Conference-Big 12 bowl game to rival the prestigious Rose Bowl could not only signal that a legitimate football playoff is on the way, but that the ripple effect would also be wildly beneficial to both Mizzou football and St. Louis University basketball?
Read more: stltoday.com
Posted by ccv
on May 21, 2012
in ACC, Alabama, Big 12, College football, ESPN, Jim Delaney, LSU, SEC
SEC, Big 12 agree to bowl matchup; champs will play if not in playoff
With the anticipated arrival of a four-team playoff to determine the national championship in 2014, college football is getting ready to enter a new world order.
The SEC and the Big 12 staked out a big chunk of real estate in that world on Friday by announcing a five-year agreement for their champions to meet in a Jan. 1 bowl game that will be determined at a later date. The first game will be Jan. 1, 2015.
If one or both of the champions are in the four-team playoff, then “another deserving team” from those conferences would get the slot.
In the 14 years of the BCS, either the SEC or the Big 12 champion has been in the title game 11 times. They have met twice for the BCS title — after the 2008 (Florida-Oklahoma) and 2009 (Alabama-Texas) seasons.
read more: cbssports.com
Posted by ccv
on May 21, 2012
in ACC, Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, baseball, Big 12, Business and Sports, Pac-12, SEC
Mike Slive gets the better of Jim Delany again
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Mike Slive just sank Jim Delany‘s battleship.
No, wait.
That sounds cute, but it’s not exactly true.
What Slive really did by partnering the SEC with the Big 12 to invent a new made-for-television, money-printing postseason game was build his own battleship.
A Rose Bowl by another name.
read more: al.com
Posted by ccv
on May 17, 2012
in Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, BCS, Big 12, Big Ten, Bob Stoops, Bobby Petrino, Bret Bielema, Business and Sports, Charlie Weiss, Chip Kelly, Chris Peterson, Coaching, College football
College football coach rankings: Alabama’s Nick Saban tops list of 124 coachesSporting News has ranked the 124 FBS head coaches by conference. Now it’s time to see how they rate overall.
First, some notes about our list:
— The Big 12 coaches have by far the best average ranking: 27.2, which crushes the second-best SEC’s average ranking of 43.3. Next in line: the Pac-12 (43.8), ACC (45.6) and Big Ten (46.8).
— Of course, the Big 12 has only 10 teams. Compared with the top 10 rankings by conference, it falls slightly below the SEC’s average of 26.6. The Pac-12 still ranks third at 34.5, followed by the Big Ten (35.9) and the ACC (37.0).
— The SEC is the only league other than the Big 12 whose lowest-ranked coach isn’t in the 100s. Tennessee’s Derek Dooley, the No. 14 SEC coach on our list, ranks 99th overall.
Read more: aol.sportingnews.com
Posted by ccv
on May 17, 2012
in Alabama, BCS, Business and Sports, College football, ESPN, fanaticism, Lane Kiffin, USC Trojans
USC paid Lane Kiffin, Monte Kiffin combined $3.9M in 2010
The University of Southern California paid head football coach Lane Kiffin $2.4 million in 2010 and paid his father, assistant head coach Monte Kiffin, more than $1.5 million, according to the school’s new federal tax return.
The return, obtained Wednesday by USA TODAY Sports, means Monte Kiffin was — and likely remains — the nation’s highest-paid college football assistant coach
read more: usatoday.com
Posted by ccv
on May 16, 2012
in Alabama, BCS, Business and Sports, Coaching, College football, Les Miles, LSU, SEC
Nick Saban skeptical of Steve Spurrier’s proposal to count only division games toward division championships
FLORENCE, Ala. — One week after LSU coach Les Miles voiced his support for Steve Spurrier’s proposal for the SEC to choose division champions based exclusively on division record, Nick Saban politely did the opposite.
Speaking to reporters before Tuesday’s Crimson Caravan stop at the Marriott Shoals Hotel & Spa in Florence, Saban said he understood the South Carolina coach’s logic behind his opinion, but couldn’t get behind an idea that essentially eliminated the importance of cross-divisional games.
“I just think that’s one of those things that’s not always going to be controlled,” Saban said. “It’s not manipulated with who you play. We have a rotation, we have to go through it.
read more: al.com
Posted by ccv
on May 16, 2012
in ACC, Alabama, BCS, Big 12, Big Ten, Bob Stoops, Bret Bielema, Business and Sports, College football, conference expansion, ESPN, fanaticism, SEC
WHAT IF TELEVISION EXECUTIVES COULD SET UP A 16 TEAM FOOTBALL SUPER CONFERENCE?
Television is driving all of conference realignment.
Whether it’s the Longhorn Network that precipitated last year’s slate of realignment or the massive rights deal recently inked by the SEC that set rights fees soaring into the stratosphere, television is the driving force behind the seismic shifts in college athletics.
But most of these shifts are relatively small, that is, most conferences have plenty of anchor teams that clearly aren’t going to relocate for a bigger paycheck.
read more: outkickthecoverage.com
Posted by ccv
on May 14, 2012
in Alabama, BCS, Bear Bryant, Jim McElwain, NCAA, NFL, NFL draft, Nick Saban
Trent Richardson goes from being told he’ll never run again to his goal of becoming the best NFL back that ever lived
BEREA, Ohio — When Trent Richardson wasn’t dodging bullets in his hometown of Pensacola, Fla., he was trying to prove wrong the doctors who told him he’d never run again and cope with being a dad at 16.
At one point, after his second ankle surgery and with a baby girl in his arms, he nearly gave up the game he loved so much. Luckily for the Browns, he didn’t.
“It’s a miracle that I’ve gotten to this point,” he said. “Now that I’m here, I want to be remembered as the most dominant player to ever play the game.”
Read more: connect.cleveland.com
Posted by ccv
on May 14, 2012
in Alabama, BCS, Bobby Bowden, Business and Sports, Clay Travis, ESPN, fanaticism, Florida State, Jimbo Fisher
Florida State trustee may have lit the fuse on a potential move to the Big 12
Just as the rumbling rumors of Florida State moving from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big 12 had begun to hush, here came the Saturday afternoon bombshell.
“How do you not look into that option?” asked Andy Haggard, chairman of Florida State’s board of trustees, to Warchant.com. “On behalf of the Board of Trustees I can say unanimously we would be in favor of seeing what the Big 12 might have to offer.
“We have to do what it is in Florida State’s best interest.”
read more: sports.yahoo.com
