The SEC and TV - Who Needs a Loan

The Ole Miss Women’s Soccer Team should be eating steak for every meal.  The super-rich Southeastern Conference now has more ammo in its quest to overtake Wal~Mart as America’s largest “franchise.”

It was reported recently that ESPN and the SEC agree to a 15-year television contract in conjunction with the SEC’s contract with CBS.  The monetary value?  A reported 2.25 billion dollars.  Add that in with the existing CBS contract (another reported 55 million dollars per season) and the SEC will be bringing bacon home to the tune of 200 million dollars per year strictly from television rights.

Details from ajc.com can be found here.

One Big Ten fan on a message board the other day stated that the Big Ten was the benchmark in collegiate athletics and that the SEC was just trying to keep up with the more Northern conference.  His biggest endorsement:...