At 6 P.M. EST today, the SEC Network launched. This is long overdue. A network that will have 45 football games, 100 men's basketball, 60 women's basketball, 25 women's soccer, 75 baseball and 50 softball games will have all the south buzzing.
The Paul Finebaum Show will be on every weekday, from 3 P.M. to 7 P.M. EST. If you haven't heard his show before, it is a riot. Broadcasting out of the deep South in Alabama football country, he gets a lot of diehard Crimson Tide and War Eagle fans fighting it out on air with live call-ins.
At 7 P.M. EST, SEC Now will come on each weeknight. It will be a talk show about the SEC. Dari Nowkhah will anchor the show alongside Maria Taylor and Peter Burns.
Expect the rest of the programming, until football season really gets kicked off, to be a healthy dosing of SEC Storied and football preview shows. They will also, just like ESPNU, replay a lot of classic college football.
When the season gets into full gear, a lot of analysis will be centered on SEC only. Fans now can look programming about college football, without having to wait around for news about SEC teams. The launch of the SEC Network will have a trickle-down effect. Though the Big Ten network has already been in play, for the past few years, the SEC Network audience will definitely dwarf the Big Ten viewing. Expect all of the other major conferences to have their own network with in the next few years.
The SEC Network launch is born. Get ready America. It's Roll Tide, War Eagle, Gamecocks, Gator Chomp, Woo Pig Sooey, Hotty Totty, Miss St. Cowbells, Anchor Down, Blue Grass Cats, Tigers of Mizzou, the Aggies 12th Man, UGA Dawgs, Geaux Tigers and Good Ole Rocky Top time.