2012 SEC BaSEB all M Edia Guid E - Southeastern Conference

December 8-9, 1932 – At the annual Southern Conference
meeting in Knoxville, Tenn., the 13 members
west and south of the Appalachian Mountains
reorganized as the Southeastern Conference.
1933 – Win a 8-1 record, Georgia wins the first
ever SEC Baseball Championship.
November 30, 1933 – Alabama defeats Vanderbilt
7-0 to finish 5-0-1 in the conference and capture
the SEC’s first football title.
August 21, 1940 – Martin S. Conner, former governor
of Mississippi, takes office as the first commissioner
of the SEC in Jackson, Miss.
February 21, 1948 – Former LSU coach Bernie H.
Moore appointed the SEC’s second commissioner
and conference office moves to Birmingham, Ala.
March 23, 1948 – Two years removed from winning
the NIT title, Kentucky wins its first national
championship with a 58-42 victory over Baylor.
1950 – Alabama becomes the first SEC team to
advance to the College World Series.
October 20, 1951 – The Alabama-Tennessee football
game, played at Birmingham’s Legion Field,
becomes the first televised event in SEC history.
1959 – SEC Baseball expands to include the
Eastern and Western divisions.
April 1, 1966 – A.M. (Tonto) Coleman succeeds
Moore as the conference’s third commissioner.
August 1, 1972 – Dr. H. Boyd McWhorter becomes
the league’s fourth commissioner.
January 1, 1977 – The SEC begins its long-standing
agreement with the Sugar Bowl to send its champion
to New Orleans as Georgia faced Pittsburgh.
SEC Milestones
1977 – In Oxford, Miss., Ole Miss wins the first
ever SEC Tournament.
July, 1983 – The SEC signs agreement with the
Turner Broadcasting System to begin airing a
“Game of the Week” beginning in the fall of 1984.
1983 – Alabama’s Dave Magadan sets the
single season batting average record with
a .525 on the year. Magadan would become
the SEC’s first national player of the year that
season.
March 26, 1986 – The SEC and Jefferson-Pilot
Teleproductions signed a contract to televise basketball
games on a syndicated basis throughout
the region. In February, 1992, the SEC continued
its relationship with JP sports announcing a fouryear
agreement to televise an SEC football game
of the week.
September 15, 1986 – Dr. Harvey W. Schiller succeeds
McWhorter as SEC Commissioner.
January 10, 1990 – Roy F. Kramer becomes the
conference’s sixth commissioner.
May 31, 1990 – SEC presidents unanimously recommend
that the commissioner be authorized to
enter discussions with interested institutions for
the purpose of expansion.
1990 – The first ever neutral site SEC Tournament
is held in Hoover, Ala., where Mississippi
State and LSU were declared co-champions
due to lighting during the championship
game.
1990 – Georgia wins the SEC’s first national
championship in baseball.
August 1, 1990 – Arkansas accepts invitation to become
the SEC’s 11th member.
September 25, 1990 – South Carolina accepts invitation
to become 12th member of the SEC.
November 29, 1990 – SEC presidents announce
divisions and vote to adopt an eight-game football
schedule to begin in 1992.
May 30, 1991 – SEC presidents award the inaugural
SEC Football Championship Game to the city
of Birmingham.
February 27, 1992 – SEC signs agreement with Jefferson
Pilot Sports to televise SEC games annually
through the 1995 season. On November 7, 1994,
the League extended its agreement with JP Sports
through the 2000 season.
April 15, 1992 – ABC Sports announces a four-year
contract to nationally televise the SEC Football
Championship Game. On October 13, 1994, ABC
extended its agreement with the conference to televise
the Championship Game through 2000.
December 5, 1992 – SEC hosts the nation’s first Division
IA conference football championship game
at Legion Field. Alabama defeats Florida 28-21 to
win the 1992 SEC crown and the league’s USF&G
Sugar Bowl berth.
February 11, 1994 – SEC announces multi-sport
television agreement with CBS Sports to televise
SEC football (1996-2001), men’s basketball and
women’s basketball (1994-95 through 2000-2001).
February 25, 1994 – SEC announces that the membership
has voted to play the 1994 and 1995 Football
Championship Games in Atlanta’s Georgia
Dome. On June 1, 1995, the conference extended
the agreement with the Georgia Dome through
1998 and on May 29, 1997, the SEC further extended
the agreement through 2001.
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