After many minutes of bragging about the SEC's accomplishments -- and they were many -- commissioner Mike Slive gave a State of the SEC speech before the print media this afternoon.

Here's some of his key points:

• First, the bragging. The SEC had 6.7 million fans attend games last year. That's 75,000 per event, with stadiums filled to 97 percent capacity.

• He noted that the league was fortunate to finalize the deal for its new 15-year TV contract with CBS and ESPN before the fullest impact of the current economic recession.

• He addressed the technological revolution, a subject that is obviously interesting to we media folk. He made sure to note that the SEC retained the conference's digital rights when it was negotiating its TV deal. As a result, the SEC will launch a digital network, with a formal announcement coming in the next few weeks. Slive said it will be a state-of-the-art Web site that allows the conference to manage and distribute digital content of past and future games and highlights and make them available in real time.

• He touched on secondary violations, an offseason problem in the conference. He said the conference will take a closer look at schools to see if patterns or trends emerge, and if they do, penalties for schools will become more severe.

• We're currently hearing about the TV deal from an ESPN spokesman. Right now it sounds a lot like a product pitch. If there's anything of note, I'll pass it along.