Clay Travis thinks you are dumb
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How ironic.
I think Clay Travis is a SEC lapdog and click-bait trolling, mouth-breathing, Southern TN dumbass. I can't believe he graduated from Vanderbilt. Guess he's just pandering to his base. Maybe ESecPN will hire him cheap now that Cowherd is gone.
I think Clay Travis is a SEC lapdog and click-bait trolling, mouth-breathing, Southern TN dumbass. I can't believe he graduated from Vanderbilt. Guess he's just pandering to his base. Maybe ESecPN will hire him cheap now that Cowherd is gone.
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Who is the dumb one here?
DeMarcus Cousins calls out Clay Travis over arrest prediction
http://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/2015/01/30/demarcus-cousins-calls-clay-travis-arrest-prediction/22603519/
DeMarcus Cousins calls out Clay Travis over arrest prediction
http://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/2015/01/30/demarcus-cousins-calls-clay-travis-arrest-prediction/22603519/
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Desperate for clicks - insult one of the largest fan bases in sports. He's a poor-mans Skip Bayless. Please don't click the article.
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Bomani Jones is going off on Clay Travis this morning on Twitter. It's hilarious.
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From that FoxSports article, with some responses, for purposes of illustration.
To demonstrate the non sequitor style of writing -- the only style Clay Travis can mange -- that is utterly childish and would not pass an 8th grade Language Arts mid-term.
" ... the vast majority of Texas Longhorn fan bragging has to do with how much money the Longhorn athletic program brings in a year ... "
Response:
The vast majority of SEC bragging has to do with how much tv revenue each member brings in each year.
"...do you know how many national titles the football or men's basketball team has won in the past 45 years? One. One title! ..."
Response: (arguments only mean what they mean based on selective data)
"The University of Texas has claimed 50 team championships dating back to 1949. View the complete list of National Championships by sport and year."
source, July, 2013, needs to be updated:
http://www.texassports.com/sports/2013/7/29/GEN_0729130655.aspx?id=328
" ....a full 92% of the people who are Facebook fans of Texas didn't go to Texas .... "
Response:
A full 99.999999999% of the 71 Million people who are Facebook fans of Taylor Swift have never met her, much less dated her.
" .... This is so dumb even Alabama fans, Outkick's curent dumbest fan base title holders..."
Response:
It's spelled current... not curent... So dumb.
" ... Because while every other team is focused on trying to win, the Longhorn fan base just wants to brag about how much money the university made playing sports last year. ..."
Response:
" ... Because while every other team is focused on trying to win, the TEXAS A&M fan base just wants to brag about BEING IN THE SEC while playing sports every year. ..."
" ... What's more, Texas has adopted a swaggering, "We're better than everyone else because we make more money than they do... "
Response:
What's more, TEXAS A&M has adopted a swaggering, "We're better than everyone else because we .... (See previous)
SUMMARY: The above responses show there is zero logical import to anything Clay Travis writes, and/or you can draw the same sarcastic line of thinking aimed at A&M (or at the SEC) or anywhere else you choose to write prejudiced journalism.
Meaning: Clay Travis writing doesn't amount to more than a stale bag of dog poop left on the garbage can overnight in a newspaper bag in July heat. (Wait till you open the garage door the next morning and smell... just like smelling anything Clay Travis writes).
Footnote:
Clay Travis was born and raised in Tennessee, and graduated in 2001 with a degree in history.
We assume therefore he can read a little, but obvious he can't seem to express himself beyond high school rhetoric and hallway locker talk.
He does have a stellar background in sports having worked as a student basketball manager while attending George Washington University.
Has a law degree from Vanderbilt, but not sure if he ever passed a bar or practiced law, either that or writing a blog now pays more than a practicing lawyer.
So how did he get enough recognition to end up writing on a sports blog?
Ripley's Believe or Not, or an Aggie Joke:
While living in the US Virgin Islands, Travis was unable to get NFL Sunday Ticket, the satellite TV package
to watch NFL games in the islands, and went on a "pudding strike," eating only pudding every day for 50 days,
with the goal of forcing DirectTV to carry the package in the Virgin Islands. The effort failed,
but he blogged about the experience and received media attention. (source: Wiki)
His wife Lara is a former Tennessee Titans cheerleader, and they have three sons.
So... let's see.... history major, law degree, basketball team manager, married to a cheerleader..
...leveraged a 50-day pudding diet to qualify for a sports blogging career...
...now an expert on collegiate athletics with one sour-ass attitude and burr up his rear over The University of Texas.
Yep, that about sums up Clay Travis.
To demonstrate the non sequitor style of writing -- the only style Clay Travis can mange -- that is utterly childish and would not pass an 8th grade Language Arts mid-term.
" ... the vast majority of Texas Longhorn fan bragging has to do with how much money the Longhorn athletic program brings in a year ... "
Response:
The vast majority of SEC bragging has to do with how much tv revenue each member brings in each year.
"...do you know how many national titles the football or men's basketball team has won in the past 45 years? One. One title! ..."
Response: (arguments only mean what they mean based on selective data)
"The University of Texas has claimed 50 team championships dating back to 1949. View the complete list of National Championships by sport and year."
source, July, 2013, needs to be updated:
http://www.texassports.com/sports/2013/7/29/GEN_0729130655.aspx?id=328
" ....a full 92% of the people who are Facebook fans of Texas didn't go to Texas .... "
Response:
A full 99.999999999% of the 71 Million people who are Facebook fans of Taylor Swift have never met her, much less dated her.
" .... This is so dumb even Alabama fans, Outkick's curent dumbest fan base title holders..."
Response:
It's spelled current... not curent... So dumb.
" ... Because while every other team is focused on trying to win, the Longhorn fan base just wants to brag about how much money the university made playing sports last year. ..."
Response:
" ... Because while every other team is focused on trying to win, the TEXAS A&M fan base just wants to brag about BEING IN THE SEC while playing sports every year. ..."
" ... What's more, Texas has adopted a swaggering, "We're better than everyone else because we make more money than they do... "
Response:
What's more, TEXAS A&M has adopted a swaggering, "We're better than everyone else because we .... (See previous)
SUMMARY: The above responses show there is zero logical import to anything Clay Travis writes, and/or you can draw the same sarcastic line of thinking aimed at A&M (or at the SEC) or anywhere else you choose to write prejudiced journalism.
Meaning: Clay Travis writing doesn't amount to more than a stale bag of dog poop left on the garbage can overnight in a newspaper bag in July heat. (Wait till you open the garage door the next morning and smell... just like smelling anything Clay Travis writes).
Footnote:
Clay Travis was born and raised in Tennessee, and graduated in 2001 with a degree in history.
We assume therefore he can read a little, but obvious he can't seem to express himself beyond high school rhetoric and hallway locker talk.
He does have a stellar background in sports having worked as a student basketball manager while attending George Washington University.
Has a law degree from Vanderbilt, but not sure if he ever passed a bar or practiced law, either that or writing a blog now pays more than a practicing lawyer.
So how did he get enough recognition to end up writing on a sports blog?
Ripley's Believe or Not, or an Aggie Joke:
While living in the US Virgin Islands, Travis was unable to get NFL Sunday Ticket, the satellite TV package
to watch NFL games in the islands, and went on a "pudding strike," eating only pudding every day for 50 days,
with the goal of forcing DirectTV to carry the package in the Virgin Islands. The effort failed,
but he blogged about the experience and received media attention. (source: Wiki)
His wife Lara is a former Tennessee Titans cheerleader, and they have three sons.
So... let's see.... history major, law degree, basketball team manager, married to a cheerleader..
...leveraged a 50-day pudding diet to qualify for a sports blogging career...
...now an expert on collegiate athletics with one sour-ass attitude and burr up his rear over The University of Texas.
Yep, that about sums up Clay Travis.
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Clay Travis came out last year and claimed SECN was going to be the greatest launch in the history of broadcasting. A later article bleated about how
“Every SEC School Will Make More TV Money Than Texas, Notre Dame.†A number of us called bullshit then and now we have hard numbers to work off to figure out the financial impact of SECN.
If we look at the difference between the average Big 12 payout and the average SEC payout and multiply that by 15, we know the total payment from Disney/ESPN to the SEC was roughly $100 millionfor 9 months of SECN operation). That is roughly $6.5 milion/ school.
From Disney's financial filings, we can tell the increase in subscriber revenue attributable to SECN for the six monhs ending Mar 29, 2015 was right at $210 million. That equate to roughly $425 million for a full year (making minor adjustments). Travis is claiming initial revenue was going to be well over $610 million and with tital SECN revenues, with ad revenues added, to be roughly $800 million. Disney intermal management reports show total SECN subscricers as of Nov 2014 to be 63 million, not the 75 million Travis was dreaming of.
Some of you guys understand broadcasting better than I do. With the seasonality of SECN programming and the rather tepid demongaphics of the SEC, I am saying ad revenue will struggle to get above $100 million, or 25% of subscriber fees. If we add $100 millionin add revenues to $425 in subscriber fees, we get a total revenue stream of $525 million. A full year distribution for each SEC school to get $10 million, plus a share for the conference office would cost ESPN $150 million. Assuming a 50/50 net revenue split that we can been told exists (by Travis), that accounts for $300 million in total revenue, leaving $225 million (or $18.75 mil/month) for operational espenses.
Now,one of thebig excuses the SECN distributions were only $6.5 million.yr was because of "start-up costs over the first few years." Disney/ESPN is putting up the capital for this venture, not the league office or the schools. Anyone who understands accounting understands the expenses such as cameras, trucks, studios, control rooms and the like are capitalized, not expensed. Whatever the amortization of the start-up costs is, that money will be added as an amortization expense, to the $225 million operating budget is probably more loke $200 million if each team is going to get a $10 million payout.
TTravis is absolutely wrong projecting $40 million/school Tier 3 payouts for SECN. I don't see how they get over $10 million.
The question is, what does it cost to operate SECN and broadcast 50 live football games as well as a couple hundred football and basketball gamesand to also produce additional contentto add to the schedule? It has to be more than $200 million/ year. So far it looks as if it is somewhere north of $300 million.
“Every SEC School Will Make More TV Money Than Texas, Notre Dame.†A number of us called bullshit then and now we have hard numbers to work off to figure out the financial impact of SECN.
If we look at the difference between the average Big 12 payout and the average SEC payout and multiply that by 15, we know the total payment from Disney/ESPN to the SEC was roughly $100 millionfor 9 months of SECN operation). That is roughly $6.5 milion/ school.
From Disney's financial filings, we can tell the increase in subscriber revenue attributable to SECN for the six monhs ending Mar 29, 2015 was right at $210 million. That equate to roughly $425 million for a full year (making minor adjustments). Travis is claiming initial revenue was going to be well over $610 million and with tital SECN revenues, with ad revenues added, to be roughly $800 million. Disney intermal management reports show total SECN subscricers as of Nov 2014 to be 63 million, not the 75 million Travis was dreaming of.
Some of you guys understand broadcasting better than I do. With the seasonality of SECN programming and the rather tepid demongaphics of the SEC, I am saying ad revenue will struggle to get above $100 million, or 25% of subscriber fees. If we add $100 millionin add revenues to $425 in subscriber fees, we get a total revenue stream of $525 million. A full year distribution for each SEC school to get $10 million, plus a share for the conference office would cost ESPN $150 million. Assuming a 50/50 net revenue split that we can been told exists (by Travis), that accounts for $300 million in total revenue, leaving $225 million (or $18.75 mil/month) for operational espenses.
Now,one of thebig excuses the SECN distributions were only $6.5 million.yr was because of "start-up costs over the first few years." Disney/ESPN is putting up the capital for this venture, not the league office or the schools. Anyone who understands accounting understands the expenses such as cameras, trucks, studios, control rooms and the like are capitalized, not expensed. Whatever the amortization of the start-up costs is, that money will be added as an amortization expense, to the $225 million operating budget is probably more loke $200 million if each team is going to get a $10 million payout.
TTravis is absolutely wrong projecting $40 million/school Tier 3 payouts for SECN. I don't see how they get over $10 million.
The question is, what does it cost to operate SECN and broadcast 50 live football games as well as a couple hundred football and basketball gamesand to also produce additional contentto add to the schedule? It has to be more than $200 million/ year. So far it looks as if it is somewhere north of $300 million.
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