WE BALLIN', BABY. IT'S A SHAME.

Rest in peace, JP. You’re fuzzy memories much like my Xmas videos from 1987 will be missed.

Has anyone even seen Scrooge McDuck and Roy Kramer in the same room?

That’s B as in Billion, playa, not million. Hold on while I search for a job in any capacity in the athletic department at any school that will take me.

Fixed.

As a Bama fan in St. Louis, it’s a good deal for me because I won’t be stuck watching mediocre Big Tenleven/12 games while waiting for the SEC on CBS broadcast.

$10 million in brand new HD equipment down the tubes. Dave, Dave, and Dave will be sent to the glue factory in January.

Good God…I guess sucking the SEC’s collective dick wasn’t enough for ESPN, they had to add ball fondling too…

Next up- prostate massage!

Reminds me of that line in “Varsity Blues” – You win a couple of national championships back to back, and the panties drop.

Like Pants McPants, I am absolutely shocked that the free market would deem the SEC more desireable than Maryland-Wake Forest or every Big Televen game that is not OSU-Michigan.

The King always gets the best treatment.

It’s good to be da King.

@ 5

Couldn’t agree with you more – hopefully this means I will be able to stop shelling out $150 per year so that I can pick up SEC games in the Boston area.

Duck Tails was the bomb.

I’m willing to bet folding cash that Chris Speilman will be doing color commentary on these games with his arms crossed and a hint of “who cares” in his voice

So instead of a boring game between Northwestern/Indiana on ESPN2 at noon it’s been replaced by a boring game between Vandy and Ole Miss but they are going to pay more for it? ESPN is truly the WWL. They’re just blinded by that speed.

Don’t worry, Raycom. You still have the ACC. Hope you like Duke vs. NC State!

You mean I no longer have to stream the SEC broadcasts from my PC to my tv to avoid watching Northwestern and Indiana? I don’t have to listen to the awful “music” they play during commercial breaks? No more Daves that sound like they are broadcasting from a closet? Fan-fucking-tastic.

1. - Actually you’ll get to see the likes of Vandy and Ole Miss get blasted by the SEC heavies – just the same as what you already. But now it’s coast to coast and not just in the SE.

Wonder if they are making ESPN go by the old JP/LF/Raycom rule that every SEC team has to be on at least once a season.

We’ll be reminiscing for the good ol’ days of the Daves after about 15 seconds of Pam Ward.

No Jealousy From USC Fan Dept, or

Vandy> notre dame Dept:

The best part of all of this throwing around cash like drunken sailers by the WWL?….

……The mega-millions contract now results in each SEC school getting a a little over $17 million for each school per year. The last reported Notre Dame-NBC deal was worth about $9 million per.

Beav is it ever a good deal to be a bama fan under any circumstances whatsoever?? Sorry couldn’t resist.

Don’t worry, Jim Delaney will write another letter explaining why this is a win for the Big Ten.

This seems as appropriate a post as any to ask the EDSBS community about ESPN360.
Yesterday I went to sign up for the Gameplan online because, as Orson pointed out in a podcast recently, the online version archives the games and just rocks. Apparently the online version isn’t offered anymore and is replaced by ESPN360, which if I’m reading correctly, contains all the Gameplan games plus the regular ESPN and Deuce games FOR FREE! Can that be right? Anyone tried this yet?
Of course, I can’t get it with my shitty cable company, so I’m stuck paying $109 for the Gameplan with no archiving :(

@11

You’re right. That show was the fucking bomb. Now ‘scuse me while I go watch a few episodes with Powe and En-rickey! (Damn that boy’s fast) Giggidy Giggidy!!

Welcome to real college football bitches………….gone are the days of Purdue vs Iowa……..

As an LSU fan who, much like a vampire, cannot stand the thought of attending a day game, this is a great deal. “JP Game” is a four letter word in Baton Rouge. I am sure ESPN will keep that shitty 11:30 AM time slot alive, but hopefully now that they will be broadcasting more SEC games, they will understand that certain teams should only be viewed at night if you want to get those golden camera moments of drunken fans coated in body paint & vomiting on themselves. All a “JP Game” can do for you is guarantee the stadium will be two-thirds full.

Any idea how much my local cable provider would charge to have all Big 10 and Notre Dame game removed from broadcast schedule.

Also, will there be an ESPN Deportes crew broadcasting College Gameday in spanish? I can’t wait to have them tell me that Ohio State’s players have mucho corazon.

The Big 12 wishes to be Flintheart Glomgold.

Does this mean there is a chance we get Ron Franklin broadcasting SEC games again?

Tom @ 18 — maybe ESPN will trade Pam Ward to JP/Raycomm (to do ACC games) and let the 3 Daves do the SEC on ESPN. I miss the 3 Daves already.

@#6

One Dave was put down on set Eight Belles style. Guess which one?

I can’t believe someone at espn finally figured out that it might be better to show a few more football games on Saturday and forego the ever-popular billiards and PBA Bowling tournaments.

“… known to the O.G.s among us as JP, or Jefferson Pilot.”

What does it make you if you can remember when it was the TBS game of the week? TBS’s game intro was a cartoon of all the SEC Mascots playing football.

Good times.

ESPN will syndicate games to local affiliates so you will still get to see the Vandy-Ole Miss matchups obscured by giant severe weather graphics.

And…I’ll take Daughtry over Big & Rich. Coming to your Citay……..not.

Given the rediculous sums envolved, I still can’t believe Fox hasn’t gotten all up in regular season CFB. Does Micky Mouse have naked pictures of Murdoch?

With this acquisition, the WWL is more or less mandating that we CFB junkies will have to purchase Gameplan. At least those of us who setup the tv on top of the other tv every saturday morning will have to.

My biggest concern is that the WWL still has contractual ties to the Big Televen that will have to be honored, so all this means is that there won’t be a noon game on CBS. Phooey.

@18

Ninja-ed! An unspecified quantity of frosty adult beverages to you, sir.

Pam Ward is to football broadcasting what 2007 Ron Jeremy is to porn. She probably holds her pinky out when the lopes the mule, too.

I sing a dirge to the Daves, and will cherish their HD farewell tour. Godspeed, gentlemen.

I’m still trying to figure out why CBS-College Sports didn’t get in on the JP action. Would much rather have them doing it than ESPN (for the reasons mentioned above).

@22:
It’s real. And it’s spectacular.
17" widescreen laptop + Sprint EV-DO laptop card + FiOS access to ESPN360.com = best tailgates ever. That’s how we do it on Norman Field.

@#21,

Actually, you should thank Jim Delaney and the Big Ten Network as they pretty much scared the WWL into helicopter dumping 2.25B on the SEC. The last thing the WWL wanted was another conference network taking coveted product off the market. I’m sure you’ll get right on that thank you card.

I’mo pour some of my fotay out for my homeboys, Big D, D-unit, and Davalicious.

In all seriousness, I am going to miss the three Daves.

#5

Oh, yes. Those of us in the BIg12 conference are waiting breatlessly for the Vanderbilt vs. Ole Miss. game. Gosh, what else is there to live for during the fall?

I realize ESPN has to let Pam Ward announce games so they don’t get sue for discrimination, but surely they won’t let her announce the games that they just paid $2.25B to get. If they do, there will be trouble.

This deal with ESPN and the SEC sure does shine a lot more light on the recent trend of bashing the Big Ten. Was the the Big Ten down the last two years, sure, but the bashing that has taken place has been insane.

I think we are all smart enough to figure out that the day the BTN went live was the day the campaign against the B10 started at ESPN.

How can ESPN have any credibility? They are going to do everything they can to pimp the SEC.

The Big 10 and Big 12 should just rename ourselves the Inadequate and Substandard conferences.

JD4AU @32: Hell some of us are so ancient we remember back when there was a total of ONE college football game on TV per week on ABC. And teams were limited in the appearences they could make each season. So when USC played a top OOC game like Alabama or Oklahoma the network would have to drop the game against UCLA or Notre Dame.

SKLM @ 19: No jealousy from this USC fan. It has been a long time since a USC game was not on TV in SoCal.

42

Amen. However dropping a 10-kiloton bomb on oxpatch would make it pleasurable viewing.

@45

blon57 – As for the Big 10 and Big 12 renaming themselves “Inadequate” and “Substandard” conferences….I beg to differ. The Big 12 is strong and should have no shame. They could call themselves the “Almost-as-fast-as-the-ESS-EEE-SEE-Conference” if they wanted to, but Big 12 fits better on a t-shirt.

The Big 10……carry on with the renaming. Both of your suggestions were appropriate.

#48

I’m at UT graduate (The University of Texas). The Big 12 doesn’t get much love on this blog and we’re getting a bit of an inferiority complex.

32, if you can find a copy of that old intro and upload it to the Tube, us old timers would be forever grateful.

Great, now there are 2 gorillas to deal with. I feel like I am in revolutionary France, being pulled and tugged by the monarchy and religion (Big Ten) and the revolution (SEC).

What this boils down to is that SEC games are simply more interesting than games in other conferences. What this screams for the Big XII is that we all need to schedule like Colorado and not pay out $800K for 1 game series with San Diego State. Not to mention that my team needs to be at least competent, fast.

The only game I’m planning to see in person this season is Northwestern @ Indiana, so I’m really getting a kick out of the replies in #14 and #16.

Even though I’m a Big 10/11 fan, I’m all for this move. Why? Well, I am not immune to the charms of an SEC campus, especially when the gales of November come early and exposing flesh becomes a Bad Idea.

Or as my friend the Caveman would put it, “Who cares about SEC speed? I’m in it for SEC wool.”

Gosh I sure miss 1997 – 2002

Michigan wins a NC, beats 3 out of 4 SEC teams in bowl games, and beats 2 conference champions (WSU and Bama) in bowl games.

Ohio State wins a NC and beats 3 conference champions in bowl games (ASU, aTm, and Miami).

Wisconsin wins the Big Ten twice and beats 2 Pac-10 conference champions in the Rose Bowl.

Those were the days…just remember, what goes around really goes around.

To Dave Neal, keep on truckin dude. I will never forget your scintillating intros to the “Let’s Play Some Football” halftime crescendos.

To Dave Rowe, keep up your UK love big guy. I know they’ve got a seat for you somewhere in Lexington.

To Dave Archer, I hardly knew ye.

To Dave Baker, I still can’t believe they shit on your face last year. I will not forget you.

I’m not going to touch the basketball guys.

People wonder why we chant SEC at national-ish events… well it’s cause we got all this money and we won’t you to know about it.

IF YOU’RE AGAINST THE RAMPANT GREED, YOU SHOULD BE AGAINST PLAYOFFS, REPLAY AND ANY OTHER GIMMICKS THAT MAKE THE “GAME” OFF THE FIELD MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE GAME OFF THE FIELD.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL FLOURISHES WHEN THE SEC/BIG 10/BIG 12/PAC 10 WINNER CARES A LOT MORE ABOUT WHO WINS THE LEAGUE THAN THE MNC!

Sorry – too many crazy clients today. But I stand by the sentiment.

It’s amazing that Disney let ESPN open up their checkbook for anything, having lost MNF on ABC, The Olympics, 80% of the BCS games, and other programs because they were squeezing that nickel so hard Jefferson’s head popped out the other side.

So now, I guess those “most essential oils” Raycom were going to provide to everyone are going to be used on themselves?

does anyone else here care that we have exactly 2 ladies who comment on the blogs… and they both pull for UT?

This is either something evil or something absurdly bizarre… like someone saying “touch my monkey”

sorry… been drinkin the drank again

Thank Jesus. Now my fiance will only have to pay for the Gameday package for one season, bless his heart.

I guess that’s true love: buying a football package so your fiancee can get her SEC fix in the California desert.

At #53- You think WAC fans sit around, thinking ‘I sure miss 1984’? If you make the sample size small enough, anyone can claim superiority.