The Blue Board

The SEC's main television rights are held by ESPN and CBS. From what I understand, any game not broadcast by ESPN or CBS would be eligible for an SEC network. A lot of attractive basketball games are not broadcast by either one of those channels. Almost no baseball games are broadcast on those channels and the SEC has a much better brand of baseball. All coaches shows, press conferences, and possibly game replays could be shown, although I am not totally positive about the replays

The only difference I see is that SEC teams would only have one football game apiece available to be shown on the SEC network and it would be a lower level game, while the Big 10 network has a few more conference football games. At least I believe that would be the only difference, unless somebody can show me where I am wrong

It's been successful, so why not?

I was answering your question.

Again, you have to put yourself in the shoes of the cable companies. I have no doubt that they can go into most SEC states and demand a good subscriber rate for the SEC network to be on the standard tier of programming. However, even with satellite being on the standard tier, you are only going to get about 10% of the in-market (SEC footprint) rate when you go outside the SEC market area. And if there will only be one football game per team that will be shown on the network as you say, that makes it even harder to sell the product. I think PSU has had 3 or 4 games on the BTN each year.

Originally, Comcast (based out of Philly) did not offer the BTN on the standard tier. Fans were pissed and were dropping Comcast for Satellite or Verizon. This caused Camcast to do an about-face, but the BTN still only gets, I think,$ 0.75 per viewer in PA vs $1.10 in the rest of the Big Ten footprint. I am willing to bet that something similar will happen in Texas, only they will have a MUCH harder time getting the cable companies there to fold because aTm plays second fiddle to the Longhorns. It wouldn't surprise me if they never get it on the standard tier in that state.