ESPN to pay SEC $2.25 BILLION!

[XUglow]

Holy Cow. ESPN is taking everything SEC that CBS does want in a 15 year deal at $150M per year. That is 2.25 billion dollars or an extra 12.5M per school per year.

[xufan02]

Well it sounds like ESPN will now be the Big East/SEC network. I think Xavier is doing the right thing going with CBS sports, they are now going to have a lot of air time available.

[golfitup]

ESPN really is a necessary evil. I like sports and don't like espn, but they have all the sports. Guess I'll live.

[X-band '01]

That's one way to upstage the Big 11 Network signing with Time Warner; I'm surprised that the SEC wasn't the first conference to form their own network.

[xu95]

Theres is in the works. They probably decided to let the Big 10 work out all of the bugs first.

xu95

[X-band '01]

In other words, this contract is going to supplement what CBS already has right now as far as the football and basketball packages. This is bigger than I already thought initially.