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

[Saul Good]

Let's do it.

[salame]

sec is too big for MU
homers

[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by kchero

Can't wait to bump this thread in a year or two.

This thread will still be on the first page.

[salame]

h omers

[kchero]

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

This thread will still be on the first page.

Sadly

[Pitt Gorilla]

http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/258978...medium=twitter

Denver Bronco Aqib Talib arrested in Dallas

By: Jenny Anchondo - email

DALLAS - Denver Broncos cornerback, Aqib Talib was arrested for public intoxication, according to Dallas Police Major, Max Geron.

Talib was a danger to himself and others, as he was throwing bottles and causing a disturbance, according to police.

The incident happened around 1:45 Sunday morning at Synn Nightclub at 1217 Main Street in Dallas.

28-year-old Talib was taken to the Dallas Marshall's Office, according to Dallas police.

Talib attended L.V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas.

[Pitt Gorilla]

http://lubbockonline.com/filed-onlin...t#.U7BpsxYs46K

Bethel II dismissed from football team after incident with Battle
Lady Raider expected to have surgery

Posted: June 28, 2014 - 10:59pm | Updated: June 29, 2014 - 12:39am

Stephen Spillman / A-J Media, file

Texas Tech's Amber Battle shoots over West Virginia's Taylor Palmer during a game in January. Battle is expected to have surgery after she was hit in the face by an incoming Tech football player following an incident Saturday at Texas Tech’s recreation center.

Nigel Bethel II, a Texas Tech football player, has been dismissed from the team due to his role in an incident at the Texas Tech Student Recreation Center on Saturday. Texas Tech Athletics said in a press release that it "has a zero tolerance policy on this type of behavior."

Lady Raider star Amber Battle is expected to have surgery after she was hit in the face by Bethel at Texas Tech’s recreation center, the Avalanche-Journal has learned.

During a basketball game, Bethel, a freshman cornerback reportedly punched Battle in the face, breaking a bone, the A-J has learned.

Blayne Beal, a Tech spokesman, confirmed there was an incident between two student athletes Saturday afternoon at the recreation center. Beal said campus officials are gathering information from both parties.

Tech women’s basketball coach Candi Whitaker said she was unable to comment Saturday evening.

Following the incident, Battle posted to Twitter, “Pray for me y’all.” She later posted, “Thank y’all for the calls, texts and visits.”

From a Lubbock location Saturday evening, a Twitter account under the name Nigel Bethel II had a post that said, “Trouble always seems to find me ... ”

Tech spokesman Chris Cook said a police report was not complete as of Saturday evening as the investigation is still ongoing.

“(It) likely won’t be ready before Monday,” he said.

Battle was the Lady Raiders’ leading scorer last season, averaging 16.4 points per game. She also averaged a team-high 7.4 rebounds. She’s a 5 foot, 9 inch guard from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and has one year of eligibility remaining.

Bethel is a 5-9 cornerback from Miami, Florida, Booker T. Washington High School. He signed with Tech in February and is one of the team’s more highly regarded freshmen.

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[KChiefs1]

Originally Posted by Bambi

lol, SEC Network...

biggest fail in the history of sport

http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingha...rs-havent.html

http://m.columbiatribune.com/sports/...26c44f33b.html

MU races to be ready as SEC Network draws nigh

Missouri’s SEC Network headquarters resides under the student section at Mizzou Arena.

It stretches four rooms and has all the audiovisual and fiber-optic capabilities to feed live broadcasts from nearly all of Missouri’s athletic venues to the central hub then out again to — if need be — the network’s headquarters in Charlotte or ESPN’s headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut.

And basically none of it was there three months ago.

“Everything has been done, more or less, from April until now in terms of construction,” said Stan Silvey, the director of Mizzou Network who is overseeing the school’s transition to being SEC Network-compliant. “We didn’t have anything. Zero. So we started from nothing.”

The Southeastern Conference’s new channel launches Aug. 14. By then, or shortly after, it needs all of its schools to have full broadcast capabilities.

The SEC and its partner ESPN are asking for 560 live, school-produced sporting events during the network’s first year, or at least 40 per school.

They’re not planning on running those live on their channel, but they will be available for digital viewing, could be used on delay to fill out their schedules or — if a game is intriguing enough — could be fodder for live look-ins or updates.

Silvey said the athletic department’s video production wing really only got off the ground in the fall of 2011 and has done mostly cutting interview and highlight packages and live-streaming Olympic sports events since.

ESPN is asking for a whole new level of broadcast capability.

“We’re not afraid of how you produce a game or how you would fill the halftime. We’re good with that. The technical element is what we had to build,” Silvey said. “Most schools are kind of where we are in terms of we’re going to be ready, but we’re not ready yet. They’re not where we are exactly — because every situation’s different — but I don’t think everyone is 100 percent ready in all their venues. There’s just different challenges in different places.”

Missouri’s main control room has three large monitors at the front and 13 computer consoles. A second video room, which controls the in-game action on the videoboards for football and men’s and women’s basketball, has two large monitors and six smaller consoles. The project also includes a room with an audioboard and a fiber room that runs wires to connect Missouri’s athletic venues to its broadcast center.

Missouri’s first videoboard event is the Aug. 30 football opener against South Dakota State. Its first broadcast event is the Sept. 5 soccer game against Northwestern.

Silvey said he needs about a crew of about 20 to produce a game. He has six full-time positions figured out, including new hire James Pirtle to be broadcast engineer, and a director and graphic artist whom he has identified but has yet to officially hire.

The rest, he hopes, will come from among the ranks of reliable freelancers and capable Missouri students.

There’s also the matter of on-air talent to call and analyze the games the school produces for the network. Silvey said he’ll rely heavily on Ben Arnet, Mizzou Network’s assistant director and main reporter, and he’s confident he can fill in the spaces around him.

“We will probably develop some folks that will be the analyst’s position. We won’t necessarily have folks that will have been a professional broadcaster be analysts,” Silvey said. “There’s a lot of talent here. There’s a lot of folks production-wise and broadcast, on-air talent. I think we’re in a nice situation.

“We’re very strategic in our hires. What do we have? What do we need?”

Missouri made around a $2.5 million investment to get its SEC Network project off the ground. Games that run on the SEC Network proper — the 45 football and 100 men’s basketball contests, for instance — will be staffed and produced by the network. Silvey said the conference has told each school how many games in each sport it is expected to produce for the digital tier, but the school has the option of exceeding those expectations if it has the capability.

Silvey expects Missouri to do more. The Mid-American Conference also has approached Missouri about producing wrestling broadcasts for ESPN3 when the Tigers host conference foes.

Silvey sees all sorts of possibilities for his brand-new toys. He just kind of wants to see how the first year goes before diving in too deep.

“It’s going to be better in October than September. And it’s going to be better in May than October. The further we get in, it’s just going to improve greatly,” Silvey said. “Really, we want to get through this first year and do a really good job at what we say we’re going to do before we raise our hand and ask to have more. This is here, we have some staff, but that staff will be very busy when you look at that number of events over a 40-week period of time.”

With less than two months until launch, the SEC Network has carriage on DISH Network, AT&T U-verse, Google Fiber and with the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative.

At an appearance at the Birmingham, Alabama, Kiwanis Club this week, SEC Network head Justin Connolly said the venture is in “active conversations with every major distributor,” according to the Birmingham Business Journal.

DISH, which signed on in March, has around 14 million customers and will be carrying the network — as well as the Big Ten Network and Pac-12 Networks — on its America’s Top 120+ and higher tiers.

The new network comes at no additional cost to customers who already have the appropriate package. The 120+ tier starts at $34.99 a month for new customers, and DISH chief marketing officer James Moorhead said the company will announce a promotion for new customers July 17, the final day of SEC media days.

DISH isn’t exactly dismayed at being the only major national carrier with the SEC Network in its stable for now.

“If I’m an SEC fan, this is must-have content,” Moorhead said. “If you’re a Missouri fan and you want to watch the” UCF football “game on Sept. 13, it’s must-have content, because it’s available on the SEC Network. You can’t get it on CBS or some other place. To me, it’s going to have a huge impact on the fan base’s ability to watch their favorite schools. That’s why we had to have it for our existing customers, to better serve them as well as continuing to grow our business.”

Moorhead said the company’s customers can also get access to the network’s digital options with “DISH Anywhere.” It’s the job of Silvey — and the other 13 Silveys at schools around the league — to help fill that extra content need.

“It really is an interesting project and concept,” Silvey said. “Big Ten Network has done things, Pac-12 has done things, and I think it’s easy for the SEC Network to look at those and say, ‘OK, how can we do this a little better?’ and kind of use those examples.”

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by KChiefs1

http://m.columbiatribune.com/sports/...26c44f33b.html

Sounds like a sweet setup.

[Prison Bitch]

I bet the Comosexuals push the SEC network to carry their classic KU games - but only the ones they won. Sorta like Norm Stewart being named a "Legend of the SEC" last year (mega-lulz on that one!)

[Bambi]

http://www.tampabay.com/sports/colle...rriers/2186506

[Bambi]

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by Bambi

http://www.tampabay.com/sports/colle...rriers/2186506

I blame the Time Warner/NFL Network fiasco for crap like this. There absolutely is a market for an SEC Network, but providers are gun shy due to the flip flap the NFL caused with its dickering in regards to Time Cable.

Unfortunately for you, I didn't get the sense of any impending doom for the SEC after reading that. Sorry, try harder.

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Bowser

I blame the Time Warner/NFL Network fiasco for crap like this. There absolutely is a market for an SEC Network, but providers are gun shy due to the flip flap the NFL caused with its dickering in regards to Time Cable.

Unfortunately for you, I didn't get the sense of any impending doom for the SEC after reading that. Sorry, try harder.

Obviously I'm baiting a bit with this whole SEC Network thing. I'm sure it will launch and operate just like all the other conference networks already do.

I just thought the $1.30 subscription fee was laughable (which it is) so it'll be interesting to see where they land when it comes to $$ per subscriber.

[duncan_idaho]

I'll just leave this here...

Comcast spokesman says he anticipates having an agreement with the SEC Network in "the near future" and "are working out the final details."

[baitism]

Of course they are. It's business suicide not to carry it.