🏈 TV networks want better SEC football games to start and finish future seasons

[BAMANEWSBOT]

SEC men's basketball will definitely go to 18-game schedules next season

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Television networks want more attractive SEC football games to start and finish seasons in the future, SEC consultant Larry Templeton said.

That will be among the topics discussed when SEC athletics directors meet in February to create 14-team schedules for 2013 and beyond. The major issues remain whether to keep permanent cross-divisional opponents and how to rotate the other cross-divisional game.

Templeton, a former Mississippi State athletics director who heads the SEC's transition team since the league expanded, said the ADs will also discuss whether to schedule more conference games in the first two weeks and last two weeks of seasons.

"TV wants them," Templeton said. "For instance, right now the next-to-last weekend of the season is a real weak weekend for us as it relates to games that we want to put on television as part of our conference package. Now that we have more games, we need to space some of them more."

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[252BAMA]

[h=2]TV networks want better SEC football games to start and finish future seasons[/h]
No joke! You don't suppose the fans would prefer Bama-UGA rather than Bama-GSU?

Pathetic that a 14 team conference is going to play the same number of OOC games as conference games.

 

[TerryP]

[h=2]TV networks want better SEC football games to start and finish future seasons[/h]
No joke! You don't suppose the fans would prefer Bama-UGA rather than Bama-GSU?

Pathetic that a 14 team conference is going to play the same number of OOC games as conference games.

Bad analogy IMO. See PSU, Michigan, Va Tech, and Clemson. Perfect example? Look no further than Fayetteville.

 

[252BAMA]

Bad analogy IMO. See PSU, Michigan, Va Tech, and Clemson. Perfect example? Look no further than Fayetteville.

Perhaps you didn't understand what I was saying, or, more likely, I just didn't make myself clear. What I was referring to is the 8 game conference schedule. With 14 teams, I can not believe they did not go to 9 games. That would have given the TV networks the additional conference games that they are now complaining about not having.

My reference to the same number of OOC games as conference games was because, with the 8 game schedule, the SEC will play 56 conference games and 56 OOC games this year. Few people realize that because they look at the schedules and think because teams are playing 4 OOC games and 8 conference games that there are twice as many conference games as OOC games. Not so. There are 112 RESULTS(56-56) in the conference but only 56 games. With a 9 game conference schedule there would have been 63 conference games and only 42 OOC games giving the networks the before mentioned additional games and also eliminating the discussion of any schools having to give up cross division rivals.

My reference to Bama-UGA should now be more obvious. With a 9 game schedule, that game would not have been dropped this year.

 

[TerryP]

Ah. I got ya!