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Originally Posted by Wickedson
What you're going to hear from SEC people is the attempt to get the SEC Network up and running. However the states in the south that will be the primary "subscribers" of this network simply don't have big populations and/or large valuable viewing audiences to advertisers. This is why the Big 10 network works.
The nation loves games like Alabama-Florida. LSU-Georgia, etc. But all those games get onto national TV anyway. We'll see how much "value" the SEC Network ends up having but I really don't see large cities across America being interested in Ole Miss volleyball. In the south they will watch anything. But how many cable TV's are there down there?
That's why they will keep expanding.
But they'll never have the footprint of the Big 10. They have a better product but less people who care.
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The SEC has flagship schools in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, and South Carolina. They also have the #2 school in Texas which currently might be the most popular program in the country.
It's not like Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Maryland are any bigger than Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, and Missouri are similar to Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Michigan. As many people in Texas follow aTm as people in Jersey follow Rutgers.
If you think less people care about college football in the Southeast compared to the Northeast and rust belt, you're out of your mind.