Awful Announcing
Aschoff, an ESPN reporter since 2011 who worked at the Gainesville Sun before that, passed away at 34 in December. He was particularly known for his work covering the SEC, and the conference has now honored him with a new communications internship in his name.
"The outpouring of love, admiration, and gratitude for his life have been so incredible, and have helped me through these last few days. It has brought me brief moments of joy in this darkness to see all the pictures, videos, and memories of all the lives he touched."
ESPN/ABC is negotiating a deal that will reportedly pay the SEC $300 million annually.
The 13.7 million viewers for Saturday's SEC championship game mean that CBS had both the #1 and #2 CFB games so far this year.
“We believe that we have a good faith obligation to offer to enter into an exclusive negotiation period with CBS, but do not believe that CBS has any first refusal rights for reasons that can best be addressed by our legal counsel.”
"It's fun to call a game when there's points and there's strategy and it's not just every yard is such a grind and every third down is 'God, is anybody ever going to convert a third down?' You've got these two offenses that can score literally in 11 seconds."
The SEC Officiating account has already received waves of replies about past questionable calls. Whoever's running that should be in for a fun season.
SEC coordinator of football officials Steve Shaw told SI "I’m not sure we can live in a ‘no comment’ world anymore."
"Oh my goodness! What just happened?"
Jimmy Haslam did not seem to be pleased with this article.
"Hey, stop the ball, stop the drill! I'm having a press conference! Thank you!"
The SEC appears set to cash in in a big way.
This run more or less put Georgia in the College Football Playoff (we assume).
Jon Gruden was actually in Seattle and not at this Knoxville restaurant. The Calhoun's Twitter account released a statement apologizing "for the misunderstanding."
The SEC's premier game of the year is losing some of its luster.
