Have their own network on television? I'm sitting here flipping through the channels on Direct TV and low and behold there's BTN... Big Ten Network. Is it no wonder the Big Ten get much love from the college football world. What would it take for the SEC to buy their own channel and showcase our best games and do nightly team roundups the way the BTN does with their respective teams?
This is the first year for the Big Ten Network. If it works out well, it wouldn't be shocking for the SEC to follow suit. But right now, the SEC has some pretty good TV deals going, so they don't want to mess with that, so any channel would have to compliment, not compete with those deals.
I think it'd be great exposure to the college football world for the SEC. Once everyone got a chance to watch what we had to offer I think the SEC would get much more respect.
one being most viewers have trouble staying awake due to every wisconsin or iowa game. or minnesota or nw or indiana. this is some painful stuff.
So how does this work? Do they just show the games that the national channels don't pick up or do they show those games as well with their own announcer/analyst? I think that I would most enjoy the 'news' shows that such a venture would spawn. A full hour of SEC football-related subject matter.
Kinda both. They also do what ESPN does and show classic Big Ten games. Like right now their showing the 2002 Iowa/Purdue game. But they also have a ton air time discussing the break downs of each Big Ten team... talking about schedules, recruits, news that oertain to each team and so on. I'd love to watch the same kinda stuff but about the SEC instead. I find Big Ten football boring on some years. I used to live in Big Ten country... and outside of that conference there's no much on television when it comes to outside games except for those picked up by the national broadcasts.
The Big 10 network isn't working out too well so far. Alot of games that would be seen otherwise by poll voters cannot be seen due to not a whole lot of carriers providing it. Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State will still be seen since they are big name programs. It's the lower tiered schools that are getting hurt by the Big 10 network.
Yeah. I wasn't hoping the SEC would do game broadcasts but I would be interested in seeing the break downs of each team and listening to the discussion about the strength and shakeups of SEC football.
