Every SEC game to be televised for 15 years...

EDITED FOR CORRECTIO after emailing my friend.

I was talking to a friend who works in sports marketing and knows a lot about this stuff.

SEC deal is worth about $17M/year/team -- just over $3B over 15 years, or a little over $200 per year to the conference. To me that's a scary number, making it sound like we have little chance to compete for the long term.

However, he expects the new ACC deal signed next year to be around $15M/year/team. That's apparently the guess among some ACC AD insiders, and the Sports Business Journal said the ACC expects the deal to be in the "mid teens" per school per year. The ACC's agent Barry Frank was told by ESPN execs that their bid will be "competitive" with what the SEC received.

Just on current football quality this would sound unlikely on the face of it. But the SEC deal includes basketball rights, where the ACC shines; and we also have better TV markets. Plus FSU and Miami are expected to eventually return to prominence, and there is no better TV draw in college football.
 
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Plus FSU and Miami are expected to eventually return to prominence, and there is no better TV draw in college football.

Wrong GT. Miami sucks in their local TV and attendance markets and does not draw a National TV audience.

FSU doesnot draw a big National TV market, even when they were winning nearly every game.
 
FatJacket said:
Plus FSU and Miami are expected to eventually return to prominence, and there is no better TV draw in college football.

Wrong GT. Miami sucks in their local TV and attendance markets and does not draw a National TV audience.

FSU doesnot draw a big National TV market, even when they were winning nearly every game.
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They actually did draw pretty well when they were on top IIRC.
 
That's a sweet deal for the SEC. Congrats to them. I HATE the SEC bias, but you can't deny that they know how to manage things such as TV deals. This will help them a TON with recruiting, as if they needed any help.


"The rich get richer."
 
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