And once they backed out each school was free to make their own deal, as they have always been. The SEC package has never included spring games.
One of my former broadcast crew members is now with ESPN. He was in town to cover the O&W game for ESPN. We talked about it while he was here.
Right, but it was quite late in the process. SS and CSS declined, but I'm not sure they would have if we had planned to go with one of them all along.
Either way, spring games with far less have been broadcast in the past. It surprised me that they didn't pick it up.