The SEC, the linchpin of the Caste System at the college football level (whichthen enables the NFL in its longstanding anti-white policies) signs a $2.2 billion deal with the linchpin media outlet of the Caste System, ESPN:
Rest of college football can't compete with filthy rich SEC
With all due respect to
President Barack Obama, we might be better off with Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive running the country.
Recession?
There ain't no stinking recession.
Not in the SEC.
Everywhere you look, you see corporations struggling and businesses shrinking. And then you show up at the annual Southeastern Conference Football Media Days and Slive is talking about his
ESPN stimulus package and how the
SEC is entering a "golden age."
Hard to believe, isn't it? The SEC is enjoying its golden age while everybody else in college sports is entering their zinc phase. The SEC is like the aristocracy during the French Revolution. While the college athletic world outside the SEC is begging for bread crumbs, Slive might as well have stood up at the podium Wednesday and told the nearly 900 media members, "Let them eat sod!"
Of course, Slive would never be so brazen. In this downtrodden economy, he has to retain at least a modicum of humility just to give a sliver of hope to the huddled masses in the ACC, Big 12 and Big East.
But in all honesty, those leagues â€" not to mention the paupers and plebes in the non-BCS conferences â€" might as well just give up. There's no way they can compete with the SEC now. And I'll give you four reasons why â€" E-S-P-N.
Much of Wednesday's first day of this media feeding frenzy was taken up by the public display of affection between Slive and an assembled army of ESPN executives on hand to answer questions about the four-letter network's newly signed $2.2 billion TV deal with the SEC. The relationship between ESPN and the SEC is believed to be the most torrid love affair we've seen in these parts since former Alabama football coach Mike Dubose and his secretary.
Here's all you need to know about the SEC's new TV deal with ESPN: The ACC, as a league, annually makes about $37 million total for its football deal with ESPN. The SEC's new all-sports deal will net about $17 million â€" <EM =i>per team![/i] In other words, every team in the SEC is making the equivalent of a BCS bowl payout even before they play a single game.
When you combine the ESPN mega-deal with the league's network agreement with
CBS, the SEC will reap more than $3 billion worth of guaranteed TV revenue. That's more than the combined gross national product of Fiji, Aruba and Mongolia.
When asked how other leagues are going to be able to keep pace financially with the SEC, Slive smiled slyly and said: "I wish you could print the expression on my face."
Other leagues couldn't compete with the SEC even before the SEC teamed up with the omnipotent 800-pound gorilla that is ESPN. The SEC has already won the last three national championships in football. It already draws more fans than any other league. And as Slive proudly boasted, if the SEC had been a nation in the 2008
Summer Olympics, its athletes would have finished fourth in the world in medal count.
ESPN and the SEC is the most potent tag team since Andre the Giant partnered up with Dusty Rhodes. Believe it or not, every SEC game â€" football and basketball â€" is going to be televised by ESPN or one of its partners.
A couple of years ago, the Big Ten shocked college football by starting its own TV network. Well, guess what? The SEC has trumped the Big Ten once again. The good ol' boys down South have their own network, too, and it's called ESPN.
"The SEC is king," ESPN executive vice president John Wildhack said. "This deal gives us an opportunity to associate ourselves with the pre-eminent athletic conference in the country. With all due respect to other conferences, there's a passion and a fervor here that is unique."
Game over.
It won't be long before the little kid in inner city Detroit will want to change his name to Bubba and dream of someday being recruited by Gene Chizik.
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