In light of recent events, what does the SEC need to do..

[Hector.sixpack]

to continue its dominance in college football and at the same time improve its marketing strategy?Here's my take:

1. Our product is great competitive football with passionate fanbases- we can't forget that, so we have to continue to be good as a conference, recruit the best, hire the best, win the big games. Thats why people go to games and watch on TV. It would help if ever so often us little guys win the championship.

2. SEC Network- this has got to be in the works already. Anybody know?

3.Would it be too stupid to have an SEC fanfare day, withgames, music, vendors,big screens with great replays? It could be on the beach somewhere during the summer and it could be a weekend vacation for families. SEC BBQ competition, meet all the coaches, etc.
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[patdog]

to2. SEC Network- this has got to be in the works already. Anybody know?</p>

It is. It's called ESPN.

 

[bullysleftnut]

1. Our product is great competitive football with passionate fanbases-
we can't forget that, so we have to continue to be good as a conference,
recruit the best, hire the best, win the big games. Thats why people go
to games and watch on TV. It would help if ever so often us little guys
win the championship.

2. SEC Network- this has got to be in the
works already. Anybody know?

3.Would it be too stupid to have an
SEC fanfare day, withgames, music, vendors,big screens with great
replays? It could be on the beach somewhere during the summer and it
could be a weekend vacation for families. SEC BBQ competition, meet all
the coaches, etc.

1) I don't think that's going to be an issue as long as you have the intense rivalries that the SEC does. We, for example, don't want to lose to Ole Miss in anything. We want to beat Bama (along with everyone else in the SEC). Bama-Auburn, Bama-Tenn, UM-MSU, UM-LSU, Auburn-Florida, Florida-Georgia, etc.....those will all keep us going I think.

2) We have ESPN -- I'd say work with them to expand the SEC into international markets.

 

[Dollabillz]

It's not like adding teams and having championship games is what's selling this. It's the unrelenting passion of the fanbases. That is what makes the SEC what it is. People here love it. And that passion wears off to outsiders. Anyone who hates on the product the SEC puts out there is jealous, plain and simple.

The traditions and rivalries are just going to run deeper. EVERY SEC game is a rivalry. EVERY game is worth watching, even MSU vs. Vandy.

No other conference will ever match the SEC, because no other conference has the engine powering it like we do. Slive and them get paid to make decisions and steer the boat per se, like the government, but the engine is the rabid fans.

 

[jacksonreb1]

football wannabees around the other conferences. IMO that's why slive sat tight in all this.as long as we're ((the sec) winning all these nat'l championships we're fine and the extra money the big 10 or whomever gets isn't going to fix that. our "big" programs have the money to compete regardless. IMO the key is that we need to be getting "current" market value for our tv rights. time to renegotiate in terms of the new contracts by the big 10 and big 12-2. ought to have a clause like miles...i get $1 more than anybody else.