Gene Chizik's message to Boy Scouts
posted by LW, Thursday, June 04, 2009
According to this article, Chizik says last week's extravaganza was mere "Marketing 101."
"We feel like we're heading in the right direction. We're always trying to stay on top of everything, think a little bit outside the box. We're going to continue to do that."
The most disturbing part of this? Chizik was endorsing this "outside the box" rule-breaking before speaking to a group of Boy Scouts.
What a wonderful message to send.
Staying in Alabama, Jon Solomon of The Birmingham News has a good breakdown of how SEC games will be televised under the conference's new deal with ESPN and CBS.
The new TV contract calls for all conference games and all non-conference home games to be televised.
Raycom Sports previously aired the 11:30 a.m. syndicated game in the SEC's nine-state, geographic footprint. ESPN, which now has that game, has secured or is trying to land affiliates in some major cities - Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Houston and Columbus, Ohio, to name a few. That's Big Ten and Big 12 country.
The early game will kick off at 11:21 a.m. to provide more breathing room before CBS' window of exclusivity from 2:30 to 6 p.m. Because the early time hinders the number of fans in attendance, SEC schools used to receive $20,000 for playing two home games on Raycom and $40,000 for three home games or more.
If you were already tired of SEC fans reminding you how great their conference is, you probably should refrain from watching ESPN for the next, oh, 15 years. Because the network that's made an art form of shameless cross-promotion is on the verge of not only joining the chorus, but leading it.
Andrew Carter of the Orlando Sentinel has a blog entry that poses legitimate questions as to why the NCAA would go to such lengths to keep its correspondence with Florida State private.
Florida State is a public institution, and there are these things called open-records laws to which public institutions are bound.
If the NCAA is trying to fight the Congressional Budget Office's suspicion that big-time college athletics doesn't legitimately fall under the tax-exempt umbrella, this isn't a good or smart way to do it.
On Clemson baseball, looks like the Tigers are trying to stay relaxed as they head to Tempe for their Super Regional against Arizona State.
That's easier said than done under Jack Leggett, of course. In recent years, Leggett's teams have seemed to become more tightly-wound the greater the stakes, particularly after reaching Omaha. We'll see if this loosey-goosey thing materializes, though.
Nice features on Matt Vaughn in The State and Post and Courier.
We'll have our own piece on Vaughn in the next day or two, focusing on his relationship with pitching coach Kyle Bunn.
More on baseball in The Greenville News, Daily Journal and Herald-Journal.
And Bart Wright gives us permission to start liking the NBA again.
Sorry, Bart. But I stopped watching when the Cavs lost.
LW
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At this point it's safe to say Gene Chizik not only carefully choreographed last weekend's flouting of NCAA rules during a big recruiting weekend, but that Chizik is darn proud of himself for coming up with the idea.
According to this article, Chizik says last week's extravaganza was mere "Marketing 101."
"We feel like we're heading in the right direction. We're always trying to stay on top of everything, think a little bit outside the box. We're going to continue to do that."
The most disturbing part of this? Chizik was endorsing this "outside the box" rule-breaking before speaking to a group of Boy Scouts.
What a wonderful message to send.
Staying in Alabama, Jon Solomon of The Birmingham News has a good breakdown of how SEC games will be televised under the conference's new deal with ESPN and CBS.
The new TV contract calls for all conference games and all non-conference home games to be televised.
Raycom Sports previously aired the 11:30 a.m. syndicated game in the SEC's nine-state, geographic footprint. ESPN, which now has that game, has secured or is trying to land affiliates in some major cities - Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Houston and Columbus, Ohio, to name a few. That's Big Ten and Big 12 country.
The early game will kick off at 11:21 a.m. to provide more breathing room before CBS' window of exclusivity from 2:30 to 6 p.m. Because the early time hinders the number of fans in attendance, SEC schools used to receive $20,000 for playing two home games on Raycom and $40,000 for three home games or more.
If you were already tired of SEC fans reminding you how great their conference is, you probably should refrain from watching ESPN for the next, oh, 15 years. Because the network that's made an art form of shameless cross-promotion is on the verge of not only joining the chorus, but leading it.
Andrew Carter of the Orlando Sentinel has a blog entry that poses legitimate questions as to why the NCAA would go to such lengths to keep its correspondence with Florida State private.
Florida State is a public institution, and there are these things called open-records laws to which public institutions are bound.
If the NCAA is trying to fight the Congressional Budget Office's suspicion that big-time college athletics doesn't legitimately fall under the tax-exempt umbrella, this isn't a good or smart way to do it.
On Clemson baseball, looks like the Tigers are trying to stay relaxed as they head to Tempe for their Super Regional against Arizona State.
That's easier said than done under Jack Leggett, of course. In recent years, Leggett's teams have seemed to become more tightly-wound the greater the stakes, particularly after reaching Omaha. We'll see if this loosey-goosey thing materializes, though.
Nice features on Matt Vaughn in The State and Post and Courier.
We'll have our own piece on Vaughn in the next day or two, focusing on his relationship with pitching coach Kyle Bunn.
More on baseball in The Greenville News, Daily Journal and Herald-Journal.
And Bart Wright gives us permission to start liking the NBA again.
Sorry, Bart. But I stopped watching when the Cavs lost.
LW
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