2012 SEC BaSEB all M Edia Guid E - Southeastern Conference

August 4, 1994 – A group of Division I-A conferences,
including the SEC, select the Fiesta, Sugar
and Orange Bowls as hosts for the Bowl Alliance
games beginning at the conclusion of the 1995
regular season. For the first time since the 1976
season, the SEC champion will not contractually
serve as the host team in the Sugar Bowl.
1996 – One of the most famous plays in college
baseball history occurs as LSU’s Warren Morris
hits a walk-off home run to beat Miami 9-8 in
the CWS National Championship Game.
1997 – LSU’s Brandon Larson becomes the
SEC’s single season home run champion by
belting 40 on the year. The SEC has four teams
advance to Omaha.
February 2, 1998 – SEC announces it has reached
a multi-year extension with CBS Sports to broadcast
its football and men’s and women’s basketball
games. Beginning in 2001, CBS expanded its
SEC football commitment and provides exclusive
national network broadcasts of SEC home games
and its basketball coverage will continue to expand
nationally.
May 23, 1999 – The largest crowd in the history
of the SEC Baseball Tournament, 16,165,
gather to watch Alabama face Arkansas in the
finals.
June 7, 1999 – SEC announces it has reached a
multi-year extension with ESPN to televise football
and men’s and women’s basketball for the
next eight seasons.
2001 – After winning five national championships
in ten seasons, Skip Bertman retires as
head coach of LSU to assume the role of LSU
Athletic Director.
December 6, 2001 – The SEC and CBS Sports announce
an agreement for the network to televise
the SEC Football Championship Game each year
through 2008.
March 12, 2002 – Roy F. Kramer announces his
retirement as the SEC’s sixth commissioner, effective
when a new commissioner is named. During
his tenure as the SEC commissioner, the league
won 85 national championships and the league distributed
more than $654 million back to its member
institutions.
July 2, 2002 – Michael L. Slive becomes the seventh
Commissioner of the SEC.
June 4, 2004 – The SEC Task Force on Compliance
and Enforcement issues its report at the 2004 SEC
Spring Meetings. The report is unanimously accepted
by the 12 member institutions calls for having
none of its schools on NCAA probation within
the next five years.
2004 – For the second time in history, four SEC
teams advance to the College World Series.
February 23, 2005 – SEC announces the formation
of its Academic Consortium, which will link academic
resources of its 12 member institutions.
2007 – National Player of the Year David Price
of Vanderbilt selected as the first pick in the
MLB Draft.
August 14, 2008 – CBS Sports and the SEC announce
a 15-year agreement to extend broadcasts
of SEC football and basketball games.
August 25, 2008 – ESPN and the SEC announce a
15-year agreement beginning in 2009-10 through
2023-24. It is the longest national rights agreement
in ESPN history. ESPN entities (ESPN,
ESPN on ABC, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPN Regional
Television, ESPN360.com, ESPN Mobile TV,
ESPN GamePlan, ESPN Full Court, ESPN International,
ESPN Deportes, ESPN Classic) will carry
more than 5,500 SEC events including football,
men’s and women’s basketball, Olympic sports and
SEC Championships.
2008 – Every game from the SEC Tournament
televised in high-definition for the first time.
The SEC’s winningest coach of all time, Ron
Polk of Mississippi State, retires.
June 2009 – League distributes $132.5 million in
revenue to members. The $132.5 million is the
highest total ever distributed in SEC history and
represents a 4.0 percent increase from the $127.6
million distributed to the schools in 2007-2008.
2009 – LSU wins the SEC’s seventh national
championship since 1990.
2010 – The number of regular season SEC
baseball telecasts more than triples with the
leagues’ new television contract with ESPN. A
pitch clock is implemented at the SEC Baseball
Tournament in Hoover.
2011 - ESPN announces a Thursday night, primetime
SEC Baseball Game of the Week to air
on ESPNU starting in early April. Over 100 SEC
regular season baseball games are televised.
June 2011: League distributes $220 million in revenue
to members. The $220 million is the highest
total ever distributed in SEC history and represents
a 5.3 percent increase from the $209.0 million
distributed to the schools in 2009-2010.
June 2011 – South Carolina and Florida meet
in Omaha in an All-SEC National Championship
Series. The Gamecocks won their second
straight national title, the third in a row for the
SEC.
Fall 2011 – League announces that Texas A&M
and Missouri will join the conference effective July
1, 2012, with competition to begin in all sports for
the 2012-13 academic year.
January 2012 – Florida and South Carolina begin
the season ranked No. 1 & No. 2, respectively.
SEC announces will expand conference
tournament to 10 teams.
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