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SECN requires every school to give up 3rd tier rights. This will be good for the conference, and probably not so great for anyone who is a "die hard" fan of a non-revenue sport.

Each school gives up their 3rd tier rights, but what about the financial compensation? ESPN controls all digital media, but couldn't they offer digital packages to each school's fanbase? If the answer is no, then the SEC has become the anti-big 12. We already shared the tier 1 and tier 2 revenue equally, but now Vandy, Ole Miss and Miss State would get the same revenue from broadcast rights as Florida. Wow. I realize that stadium revenue and university license revenue would still belong to each school, but this is a bonanza for the smaller schools.

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Posted by Keltic Tiger

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Member since Dec 2006

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Posted on 5/3/13 at 9:42 am to Filmat11

No SEC games in any sport will be able to be seen by fans unless ESPN is covering it direct. No more Tiger Vision, nothing. The general consensus is that this deal is good for the conference as a whole, with the individual schools getting a huge piece of the pie, but bottom line for the fans is that local coverage of local teams will no longer exist in any form. Using this wkend's series with the gators: all 3 games now being shown. That will never happen again unless ESPN shows them all, and that would leave the rest of the league off the tube that wkend. Aleva commented on 104.5 yesterday that all schools had to make sacrifices for the good of the conference. Without being specific, this is an example of what he meant for LSU baseball fans in particular.

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