🏈 anybody pay any attention to the SECN Takeover with Bama and Auburn?

[18Champs]

I have watched most of the day at this point via my DVR. It's been some good programming showing Alabama championships from football, softball, and gymnastics.

I saw some threads about the Auburn day and I didn't really buy what these posters were saying until I went and looked it up. Out of the nine games they broadcasted for Auburn five of them were games against Alabama.
Translation: Over half of what their Athletic Department chose to show on the SECN were games against Bama. All of what Bama chose were championship games.

This is just one more example of how these two programs view themselves. One in Championships, the other...

 

[sean]

well, i guess you can't show what you don't have.

 

[BAMANEWSBOT]

Visual evidence that Auburn cares more about Iron Bowls, Alabama about national titles

How many times have you heard it said that Auburn cares most about beating Alabama while Alabama cares more about winning national championships?

Here's more evidence to support that argument:

Auburn 3, Alabama 0.

Three is the number of Iron Bowls that Auburn's including in its SEC Network takeover Wednesday, part of a two-week midsummer blitz that gives each school in the league 24 hours to program the network as it likes with great games, documentaries and original programming.

Zero is the number of Iron Bowls that Alabama chose for its takeover Monday.

Auburn will include two-hour condensed versions of the 1982 Iron Bowl (Bo over the top!), the 2003 Iron Bowl (Go crazy, Cadillac!) and the 2013 Iron Bowl (the Kick Six!) among the five football games it'll air. The others are the 2006 upset of eventual national champ Florida and the 2011 BCS Championship victory over Oregon.

"It was important to give the Auburn Family the programming they wanted to see during our takeover day, so we gave them an opportunity to vote on their favorite classic games," AD Jay Jacobs said in an SEC Network press release. "This day is for the Auburn Family."

Alabama included seven football games on its SEC Network menu for today: the 2009 and 2012 SEC Championship Games and national championship victories in the 1979 Sugar Bowl, the 1993 Sugar Bowl and the BCS Championship Games of 2010, 2012 and 2013.

In choosing great games from their past to show, the schools are limited to the available television inventories, and let's be honest. Alabama's inventory of conference and national championship victories is far more extensive than Auburn's. Auburn didn't win a football national championship - at least one the school fully recognizes and celebrates - between 1957 and 2010.

So it only makes sense that Alabama's programming choices for its SEC Network takeover day would lean heavily on conference and national title games while Auburn's would focus on state championships.

That doesn't mean Gus Malzahn and company don't have their eyes on the biggest prize. It just means, when you look in the rearview mirror, so many of Auburn's biggest wins have been memorable games against its biggest rival.

Now it's up to Malzahn to increase the larger championship inventory on the Plains.

 

[TerryP]

Here's more evidence to support that argument:

Auburn 3, Alabama 0.

Scab fails to mention they also showed a soccer game and a softball game against the Tide.

 

[Destiny's Child]

Cracks me up. It's like that inside their stadium too. I have one of my daughters who is a Barner and of course it breaks my heart but this past year I took her to an Auburn game. We went to the Aub vs South Carolina game and I agreed to go but wouldn't where anything close to blue or prison uniform orange.

Two things I noticed about their stadium: 1) The stadium was crap and the experience was sophmorish. 2) they are ate up with little brother..lol. Our pregame hype video shows championship highlights, SEC championships and National Championships and talks about class, desire, winners... theirs had Bo over the top, the reverse play, lutzicherken(RIP), and the kick six. They didn't even show anything about their championship they bought... was funny