****The Official NEW new new conference realignment & shit talk thread****

[Saul Good]

Let's do it.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Didn't Florida State & UCONN definitively prove this year that conference affiliation is meaningless?

All realignment has done has made more teams eligible to win shit. Congrats to those taking advantage of it.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Didn't Florida State & UCONN definitively prove this year that conference affiliation is meaningless?

It's as though you have no idea what words actually mean.

The following numbers definitively prove nothing, but they provide some interesting data points:

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

Vandy gives the SEC a team in the CWS final for the 7th straight year, I wanted to look back. Here's what the league has done in the last eight years:

Football: 7 national titles, 2 runners-up, 9 total appearances in the national championship game.

Baseball: 3 national titles, 4 runners-up, 8 total appearances with Vandy still to play this week.

Basketball: 3 national titles, 1 runner-up, 7 total Final Four appearances.

[Prison Bitch]

That makes no sense at all. Kentucky and Florida basketball are hurt, not helped, by playing those garbage teams. You may have a case for football but again that didn't seem to bother the ACC team who beat the SEC best for the title.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Didn't Florida State & UCONN definitively prove this year that conference affiliation is meaningless?

Conference affiliation isn't meaningless... it's not as important in basketball, where minor conferences are more competitive. But UCONN also won its title with 5-star talent recruited while it was a member of the biggest, baddest basketball league in America.

We'll have to see how they do in terms of recruiting and program success down the road. THe double-whammy of losing Jim Calhoun and switching leagues at the same time could be an issue (though it likely isn't, since they've become a blue blood, have great facilities and private donor support, and have an energetic young coach who should be able to capitalize on his natty).

Florida State doesn't prove anything regarding conference affiliation. They're a national program in a major football conference. The ACC TV money is not great (I think FSU is at around $25 million by the time its T3 rights are included), but FSU also has a huge and generous donor base (benefit of being a blue blood in a talent-rich state).

[WhawhaWhat]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

Florida State doesn't prove anything regarding conference affiliation. They're a national program in a major football conference. The ACC TV money is not great (I think FSU is at around $25 million by the time its T3 rights are included), but FSU also has a huge and generous donor base (benefit of being a blue blood in a talent-rich state).

It's crazy how much that state doesn't care about pro sports with as many teams as they have, granted this is based solely on the people I have talked to there.

Rays, Marlins, Jags, Dolphins, Bucs, Panthers, Lightning, Heat, Magic are all second fiddle to the Gators and Noles. Dolphins may be the only team that is even close and even that is probably a stretch.

[WhawhaWhat]

ESPN, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks have reached an agreement for carriage of the SEC Network

— Joe Schad (@schadjoe) July 24, 2014

[Al Bundy]

SEC Network now is in about 60 million homes. Distribution has turned out much better than some privately worried about months ago.

— Jon Solomon (@JonSolomonCBS) July 24, 2014

BTW Why isn't the Longhorn network available in KC?

[WhawhaWhat]

Originally Posted by Al Bundy

BTW Why isn't the Longhorn network available in KC?

It's on Google Fiber but you have to pay extra for it. SEC Network will be on regular cable just like the Big Ten Network.

[Eleazar]

Sorry for repost

[Eleazar]

Are there any cable systems left that won't be carrying all the SECs games?

[Al Bundy]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

It's on Google Fiber but you have to pay extra for it. SEC Network will be on regular cable just like the Big Ten Network.

It is listed as a channel on U-verse, and I have the sports extra programming. Still nothing.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by WhawhaWhat

ESPN, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks have reached an agreement for carriage of the SEC Network

— Joe Schad (@schadjoe) July 24, 2014

What an Epic Fail.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by Al Bundy

SEC Network now is in about 60 million homes. Distribution has turned out much better than some privately worried about months ago.

— Jon Solomon (@JonSolomonCBS) July 24, 2014

BTW Why isn't the Longhorn network available in KC?

lol, SEC Network...

biggest fail in the history of sport

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by Cochise

Are there any cable systems left that won't be carrying all the SECs games?

DirecTV is the only major national carrier left. They might not cave, it's hard to say.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

DirecTV is the only major national carrier left. They might not cave, it's hard to say.

Disagree. They just about have to cave to compete with Dish.