Fox Sports Hops in Bed with the Florida Gators
College Basketball, College Football July 15th. 2008, 2:10pm
Professors in Gainesville are going to love this one: as budget cuts roil the University of Florida … the Gators athletic program is rolling in the dough thanks to a lucrative 10-year, $10 million deal with Fox Sports.
The Jacksonville Business Journal speculates that this all but ends the hope of the SEC Channel, which would have surely brought $$$ and more exposure to some of the lower-rung football teams. Yeah, as if Urban Meyer cares.
And just because … Tebow and Andrews, and Tebow in Crocs. These never get old.
Fox Sports signs deal with Gators (Jacksonville Business Journal)
13 Responses to “Fox Sports Hops in Bed with the Florida Gators”
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July 15th, 2008 at 2:16 PM
three years too late there fox. paying 10mil for a NIT team … florida raped fox on this deal (but school officials claimed they love fox so thats not possible)
July 15th, 2008 at 2:27 PM
I posted this yesterday, and it’s definitely a blow to the SEC.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Notre Dame finds their contract cute.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:31 PM
TBL -
Your post confounded my tiny brain. A 10 year, $10 million deal is peanuts. It is a 10 year, $10 million per year deal.
Of course, my mind is fried because of staring at the computer screen waiting for your server to allow me in.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:33 PM
July 15th, 2008 at 2:35 PM
the difference being notre dame football has a massive fanbase that largely still watches even when they suck ass, and people will watch them to see them lose when theyre sucking ass as well.
florida basketball is always going to be the second most popular sport at their own school, i dont really think many people outside of gville care
July 15th, 2008 at 2:40 PM
i think it’s premature to say there will be no sec channel. note that the big ten channel is partially owned by fox. and that’s also why it got placement on the basic tier on directv.
also, if there is an sec channel it could negate the florida deal. for example, the bucanneers signed a deal with brighthouse networks cable for a 24/7 buccaneers channel. the nfl nixed the deal when the nfl network was born.
i don’t think one (florida deal w/fox) has much to do with the other (proposed sec channel).
July 15th, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Holy crap that’s a $100,000,000 contract! Big fucking difference between 10 mill and 100 mill… Fox got sodomized sans lubricant on this one, IMO.
(for those who don’t know, sodomy is code for… butt sex)
July 15th, 2008 at 2:45 PM
i just read the linked story. this is an
. sun sports (nee sunshine network) has had the rights to gators athletics (as well as florida state) for years.
the author clearly doesn’t know this. sun sports has broadcast taped games and some live games as long as i’ve known they’ve been around.
apples and oranges comparing this to a proposed sec channel. this is no different than comcast chicago having rights to taped delayed illinois sports.
July 15th, 2008 at 2:48 PM
so august is okay with being sodomized as long as theres a liberal application of lube
July 15th, 2008 at 2:52 PM
All sodomy here is between The Gators and Fox… leave me out of this!
July 15th, 2008 at 2:54 PM
key element to the story:
July 15th, 2008 at 3:54 PM
Wow, that is the gayest picture than the gayest thing in Gayland.