ESPN SEC digital network broadcasting its first live track meet Saturday - 4 - 6:30 ET

If you have the SEC network as part of your digital television package will it also be on tv? Or only the internet?

rojo,

Since when is paying for cable free?

They're lying to you. I watched a TAMU indoor invitational last year on ESPN3 and it was free without authentication.

I remember it well because I was wondering what south Texas needed with an indoor track. I checked the weather and it was about 70 degrees and sunny that day.

Well... Because the NCAA has an indoor season, that's why.

Bad Wigins wrote:

They're lying to you. I watched a TAMU indoor invitational last year on ESPN3 and it was free without authentication.

I remember it well because I was wondering what south Texas needed with an indoor track. I checked the weather and it was about 70 degrees and sunny that day.

You watched the SEC Indoors on ESPN3. Last year, the only way to watch the invitationals/duals at A&M is if you had Aggie All-Access which cost like $12/month

it was still an indoor SEC meet, making this one not the first time.

That's odd. I read the SEC, ACC, Big 12, and Big 10 want to follow the Pac-12's lead and start sheding / tapering down contracts with ESPN, FOX, entrepreneurial TV producers, and fanbois (Flotrack, Runnerspace, etc) in favor of self-coverage by university personnel.

LetsRun.com wrote:

We got an email today from some people at ESPN SEC network saying for the first time they'll be broadcasting a live track meet on Saturday.

Bad Wigins wrote:

it was still an indoor SEC meet, making this one not the first time.

But it is the first time on SEC Network+...

Free Enterprise System wrote:

That's odd. I read the SEC, ACC, Big 12, and Big 10 want to follow the Pac-12's lead and start sheding / tapering down contracts with ESPN, FOX, entrepreneurial TV producers, and fanbois (Flotrack, Runnerspace, etc) in favor of self-coverage by university personnel.

Where did you read that?

I want to thank Lets Run for alerting me to this meet--I had it on in the background as I was doing other work, and therefore got to see a remarkable 5k for this early in the season run by Rachel Johnson--15:40.45 Of course, she's coming off a 5th place finish in NCAA XC, so obviously in top shape, but still that's a great race to run solo as she did. She could do some fantastic things in the steeplechase this Spring.

On another topic--its trivial, but I just wanted to express my irritation with "Free Enterprise system" for referring to this site as a "fanboi" site. First, I hate that misspelling, because its an attempt to be cool reminiscent of ignorant teenagers. I also am not a boy. And finally, every use of fan boy I've seen on the Internet refers to someone who is so devoted to a product (especially Apple) or some celebrity that they can't be critical. And one thing we know about this site in general is that it is extraordinarily--maybe even too--critical of the sport.

That rant out of the way, I again thank Let's Run for keeping us fans alerted to what's going on in running, and congratulate Rachel Johnson on her great early season 5k.

Made it two mins in and they started filling "dead" time aka middle of a hurdles race with Katy Perry and Imagine Dragons...can they not find at least two people to sit there and tell people what is going on instead of playing crappy music. They have no shortage of commentators for mid-major football games on a tuesday night but they couldn't find anyone to at least talk about who is winning instead of the PA and a powerpoint slide.

If you don't like my music then just put it on mute, I'm sorry you need somebody to call a track meet like a horse race which never happens....