Posted by ccv
on May 22, 2012
in Big 12, Business and Sports, Clay Travis, College football, conference expansion, Mike Slive, SEC
Reverberations of Big 12-SEC bowl ‘alliance’
Last Friday’s announcement that the Big 12 and SEC decided to hook up for a postseason game starting in 2014 was significant on a number of levels.
And, frankly, the game itself is way down the list.
The conferences announced that their champions would meet in a bowl if neither team was in the four-team national championship playoff, which is scheduled to begin in 2014. That the Big 12 and/or SEC champ wouldn’t be in the playoff is hard to fathom: Since the beginning of the BCS in 1998, only twice (in 1999 and 2002) has the title game not included a team from one of those leagues. And at least one of the league champs has been in the top four of the BCS standings each season; indeed, both league champs have been in the top four in seven of the 14 BCS seasons.
read more: sports.yahoo.com
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 April 25, 2012
in BCS, Beautiful women, Big 12, Big Ten, College football, ESPN, Mike Slive, PAC-10, Pac-12
Here’s all you need to know about the playoff discussions at this week’s BCS meeting
After a century-plus of pushing, the immovable object has been nudged out of its entrenched position. Now it’s time to get that sucker rolling.
That’s the mindset as college football power brokers descend on south Florida this week for the annual BCS meetings. The beginning of a sea change in the game’s postseason is at hand.
Read more: sports.yahoo.com
Posted by ccv
on April 13, 2012
in Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Bobby Petrino, College football, Dan Mullen, Derek Dooley, Florida, Hugh Freeze, Kentucky, Kevin Sumlin, Les Miles, LSU, Mark Richt, Mike Slive, Mississippi State, Mizzou, Ole Miss, SEC
Bobby Petrino: How Arkansas firing will affect recruiting vs. SEC rivals
Ole Miss and Missouri are two SEC football programs that often go head-to-head with Arkansas on the recruiting trail.
Coaches from both schools aren’t sure how Bobby Petrino’s firing will impact the competition with Arkansas for future recruits.
“I think it’s too early to tell,” Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze told the AJC. “I think Arkansas has had some tremendous years recruiting and they have great facilities. I’m not confident enough to say we have a great advantage now. Now I think it could be an advantage but certainly they could go get another great coach in there, which I’m sure they will. Then [Petrino’s firing] would be over in the minds of recruits very fast … so it’s kind of hard for me to say on that.”
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Posted by ccv
on April 4, 2012
in College football, Les Miles, LSU, Mike Slive, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, SEC
POT BROWNIES, DA’RICK GARCIA, AND THE SEC EAST’S DESCENT IN TO AWFULNESS
The SEC East is like the younger, drug-addled underachieving brother of a Rhodes Scholar. The Billy Beer of SEC football.
While the SEC West gets stronger every year and racks up title after title, the SEC East continues to fall all over itself with incompetence. At this point the SEC East coaches are like bad reality TV characters, the Desperate Housewives of the (mostly) eastern time zone.
Read more: outkickthecoverage.com
Posted by ccv
on March 8, 2012
in Mike Slive, SEC
Mike Slive Discusses Playoffs, League Size, TV Negotiations
Mike Slive discussed two of the more pressing big picture issues in college football with the Birmingham Newsyesterday, those being the future of the postseason format and the size of conferences.
He said he’s willing to discuss a four-team playoff where only conference champions are included, but his inclination is to oppose such a restriction. It’s not hard to figure out why, considering he had two schools play for the national title in 2011. That sentiment puts him in opposition to Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott and outgoing interim Big 12 commissioner Chuck Neinas, who both have voiced support for limiting any playoff to only conference champions. In the history of the BCS, the SEC has put two teams in the top four of the final rankings three times. The Big 12 has also done it three times, the Big Ten two times, and no other conference has done it once.
Slive also was skeptical of the plan the Big Ten leaked a month ago where a football final four would hold semifinals on campus and the title game at a neutral site. He cited the basketball tournament as an example where postseason games are played on neutral sites. This is a bad comparison however because with two exceptions—when a big program plays near its home and wherever it is Kentucky plays—attendance at early rounds is generally sparse. Only Final Four games and the championship have guaranteed full crowds, but that’s because they’re all played in the same city on the same weekend.
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3.8.12
Posted by bobounds
on January 9, 2012
in BCS, Business and Sports, Mike Slive, SEC
NEW ORLEANS – The ruler of college football sat in the shade on a bench at the Windsor Court Hotel on Sunday, looking quite relaxed.
There had been meetings earlier in the day and there were a couple of phone interviews to come, but for the most part, Mike Slive is just along for the joyride at this BCS national championship game.
The biggest concern for Slive, the SEC commissioner, was figuring out the best time to enjoy an afternoon cigar.
Monday night, a Jewish lawyer with an Ivy League education and a Northeast accent will add another line to his résumé as the best commissioner Dixie ever has had.
yahoo.com
1/8/11
Posted by bobounds
on September 26, 2011
in Mike Slive, SEC, Texas A&M
Texas A&M officially became the Southeastern Conference’s 13th member Sunday, with the move announced in a statement posted on the SEC website.
SEC presidents and chancellors acted unanimously to remove the conditional status from the school’s bid to join the league, the statement said, with A&M becoming a member on July 1, 2012. The Aggies will be competing in the SEC for the 2012-13 school year.
Star-telegram.com
9/25/11
Posted by bobounds
on August 14, 2011
in Alabama, BCS, College football, conference expansion, Mike Slive, SEC
A few days after NCAA president Mark Emmert reached for his talking points and attempted to assure the masses (suckers) that university presidents were “focused on what really counts, and that’s sustaining the collegiate model,” we must ask two questions:
What is that model and when did it mutate? Because all wonderful sound bites about integrity, academic standards and returning to the mission of college athletics notwithstanding, somebody just ran to the ATM again. Texas A&M reportedly intends to leave the possibly crumbling Big 12 for the ivory towers of the SEC, with an announcement coming as soon as Monday, after banks open.
ajc.com
8/13/11
Posted by bobounds
on August 14, 2011
in BCS, Big 12, Big Ten, Business and Sports, College football, Mike Slive, SEC, Texas, Texas A&M
The Only Thing That Rules College Football Is Anarchy
No one is in charge.
For all the billions of dollars, millions of fans and boundless passion that surround college football, that has always been its glaring and bizarre flaw. No one is looking out for the greater good of the game. No one is guiding the sport toward long-term prosperity and short-term sensibility.
nytimes.com
8/13/11
