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The Powerful SEC finds itself in a quandary given the new SEC Network beginning in the 2014 football season. The Network plan is to telecast 1,000 events in the first year.
Speaking of TV the flat screens technology is getting more and more sophisticated. Escalating ticket prices and donations are flatting the bottoms in the stadium seats to vacancy. Eight of the fourteen schools in the league play on campus and have eighty-thousand plus attendance. “Smaller side” of the conference all are 60,000 plus.
To project a seating capacity of 61,000 plus signals a 6,000 plus reduction in the newly renovated 2015 Commonwealth Stadium rollout is a smart move by Mitch Barnhart. He couldn’t wait until UK got a consistent top twenty team but needed to keep up with the glitzy facilities in the rest of the SEC. Who knows what happens in the future for the UK football team. The aforementioned comfort of home theater (or dens) play a huge part in the existent climate.
All across the highly popular SEC student attendance is an issue to contend with. In all the schools only 69.4 percent of student tickets are being sold. The University of Georgia has decrease its student allotment from 18,000 to 16,000 for students. What can be done to contend with that phenomenon? Though in some cases pricey there needs to be more cell-phone availability in the stadiums. All the social media available has to be accommodated especially for the female gender that may not necessarily be football aficionados but want to be in a party atmosphere. Other things have to be done to make the game-day experience better.
At the 2013 Football Media Days meetings in Birmingham, Alabama, it’s always opened by SEC commissioner Mike Slive giving the ‘State of the SEC’ dissertation. In addressing the prospects of going to nine league games he had some interesting things to say on the subject. Spurred by the need to accommodate the SEC Network he said – “I don’t know if nine SEC games is the answer. We could stay at eight games and everybody upgrade their non-conference schedule to ten BCS games leaving two FCS teams to fill out the schedule
“I don’t know if nine (SEC) games is the answer,” said the Bill Battle the Alabama athletic director. “Fans are going to get tired (of lesser opponents.)”
The SEC will pay out 289.4 million dollars to 14 SEC Schools under the new contract.
The 10-second defensive proposal which required a ten-second delay of snapping the ball was tabled by the NCAA officiating committee. Nick Saban started belly-aching at the 2013 media-day meetings proposing the chances of more injuries. He felt that high tempo offenses wasn’t good for the game.
Ironically the two teams that defeated him were Auburn and Oklahoma in the 2013 season both of whom ran high tempo offenses. Saban and Arkansas’ Bret Bielema led the charge though the committee claimed they were already working on the proposal. It was first heard publicly in the summer of 2013 from the mouth of Nick Saban so you be the judge on which came first. When the hearings were heard six notable coached railed against the proposal.
On the Kentucky front a large exhale was heard from Neal Brown because in many cases the kingpins pack a lot of weight on issues. Also, the dependable data hasn’t been presented on the injury proclamation.
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