• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

Shaggy Texas - Shaggy Bevo, Thujone, MS Pain, Butt Hurt, and BBQ (RIP)

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
AJHawkfan said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/s...xtends-deal-with-nfl-for-15-billion.html?_r=0

$1.9 Billion per season. And people wonder why cable rates have ballooned so badly (or how the NFL can afford to pay Goodell $45M per year). That comes out to more than $111,000,000 per week......just for MNF - which basically sucks if you, you know, have a job to get up for....

They can hypothesize and debate all they want about why a 2 loss Alabama team deserves to be in the playoffs, but this is the real "ESPiN looking stupid" discussion topic.
Click to expand...

Let's just hope they don't come to their senses until after the next B1G media deal is signed.

colobuck79 said:
Rhetorical question: Can you name one conference to which Tejas has belonged that it didn't destroy?
Click to expand...

As much fun as it to blame Tejas for everything that has happened to the Big 12, it's really being destroyed by the same demographic pressures that destroyed the SWC (and Big 8).

A conference can't survive on Texas (the state) alone.
 
Upvote 0
This bright boy put on his thinkin' cap and actually realized what the LHN was all about and that it has made UT ESPN's fucking gimp.

It is obvious in hind sight that ESPN paid us the enormous fee that they did to keep us under their thumb and not for our 3rd tier content. They made it so we could never move our content to another network and made it harder for us to get accepted by another conference since they were all moving to consolidate their 3rd tier into one conference network that we couldn't consent to be a part of at all. We were paid the $$$ to keep us from slipping ESPN's noose. We're in the Big 12 until we can shake off the thumb we allowed ourselves to get pinned by.
Click to expand...
 
Upvote 0
Palpie said:
http://www.shaggytexas.com/board/showthread.php/163578-I-Want-Out-of-This-Fucking-Conference

om nom nom nom, longhorn tears
Click to expand...
Think I lost a few IQ points reading that thread... what a bunch of crying homo's.

Absolutley hate people that cry "refs" after a loss but they take it a step further demanding to go Independent "b/c we are the biggest name brand". Tejas destroys the B12 and now they want out, fucking laughable.

They say two things come from Texas and I am certain those on shaggy aren't steers.
 
Upvote 0
Texas and Notre Dame having a yearly game both as Indie teams would be pretty cool.

I'd love to have the opportunity to play Texas more than a couple of times every two decades as well.

That being said, if Texas were to go Independent I am POSITIVE the Longhorn Network would no longer exist and we all know that that's ultimately the biggest dick swinging in this whole mess.
 
Upvote 0
AJHawkfan said:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/s...xtends-deal-with-nfl-for-15-billion.html?_r=0



$1.9 Billion per season. And people wonder why cable rates have ballooned so badly (or how the NFL can afford to pay Goodell $45M per year). That comes out to more than $111,000,000 per week......just for MNF - which basically sucks if you, you know, have a job to get up for....

They can hypothesize and debate all they want about why a 2 loss Alabama team deserves to be in the playoffs, but this is the real "ESPiN looking stupid" discussion topic.
Click to expand...
That was the counter pressure I didn't elaborate on. ESPN is losing tons of money as they lose more and more $6 a pop cable/satellite subscriptions to streaming services.

At the same time they are locked into billions of dollars in contracts for broadcast rights which they can't renegotiate for many years.

Somethings gotta give- right now they're laying off employees but I'm sure before too long people who want to watch live sports at home are going to start getting royally screwed.
 
Upvote 0
Buckeye86 said:
That was the counter pressure I didn't elaborate on. ESPN is losing tons of money as they lose more and more $6 a pop cable/satellite subscriptions to streaming services.

At the same time they are locked into billions of dollars in contracts for broadcast rights which they can't renegotiate for many years.

Somethings gotta give- right now they're laying off employees but I'm sure before too long people who want to watch live sports at home are going to start getting royally screwed.
Click to expand...
Well to look at this a bit more long term, they can/should start working directly with Apple, Roku, Google to offer their streaming ESPN app for a fee. Then they can cover their bases there. As a guy with an affection for Apple TV, I hope they do that soon.
 
Upvote 0
Anyone who thinks the B1G would refuse UT if they abided by our equal revenue-sharing and abandoned the ill-conceived LHN is being foolish.

UT would be an outstanding addition to our league, regardless of what you might think about their fan base. After all, it's pretty much how everyone else regards the Buckeye fan base.
 
Upvote 0
I think had it not been for the LHN, Texas and the Big Ten would both benefit BIG TIME by them joining. Yes, Texas would have to still compete for guys in Texas, but it opens up for recruiting in the Midwest, more so than they've had in the past. (Jordan Hicks is the only one I can think of recently)
 
Upvote 0
1. As an Irish - German, red haired (well, used to be - now it's mostly gray), blue eyed and feckled person I resent the way the term is being tossed about. I for one have yet to meet a guido with feckles. Oh, wait a minute you said "feckless" possibly meaning one who has no feckles. OK, never mind, carry on.

2. I've been on the Shag several times in the past three years. The losses are beginning to have a visible affect on the tone of their posts - much more ethnocentric, much more academic smack, much more how dare you speak ill of Texas and much angrier at aTm.
 
Upvote 0
cincibuck said:
1. As an Irish - German, red haired (well, used to be - now it's mostly gray), blue eyed and feckled person I resent the way the term is being tossed about. I for one have yet to meet a guido with feckles. Oh, wait a minute you said "feckless" possibly meaning one who has no feckles. OK, never mind, carry on.

2. I've been on the Shag several times in the past three years. The losses are beginning to have a visible affect on the tone of their posts - much more ethnocentric, much more academic smack, much more how dare you speak ill of Texas and much angrier at aTm.
Click to expand...
Yeah, UT has become aTm's little bro.
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top