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Texas Longhorns (big hat, no cattle; please don’t Horns Down us)

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matcar;1962577; said:
Who cares about that when you can have ratings?
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Indeed....


Truly, though, ESPN and Texas ought to be very careful how far they dig their heels in on this broadcasting HS games issue. If the BTN followed suit and the Pac 12 network gets up and running and also follows suit ESPN could be in trouble. Now, they might think "Well, we've got Tejas and the SEC, we'll be fine"... And... maybe they will be... but... pissing off the rest of the Big XII, losing sets to the BTN and Pac 12 seems to me to be a very stupid business decision. Frankly, I hope they do it. They already have a tough road to hoe on the court of public opinion and I'd just as soon they be held in check though competition since nothing else seems to work.
 
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Texas A&M - We're serious this time.

Uncertainty? Aggies are clear regarding Longhorn Network

COLLEGE STATION - The Big 12's athletic directors are supposed to meet today in continued discussions about the Longhorn Network. Texas A&M, leading the charge against the LHN, has made itself clear through president R. Bowen Loftin and athletic director Bill Byrne.

The Aggies are opposed to the LHN airing a Big 12 football game, and they're especially opposed to the LHN airing high school games. Should the ESPN-owned LHN press forward with plans to do both - and right now the Big 12 has put those plans on hold - I expect the Aggies to announce they're bolting the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference.

Less than two weeks ago, Loftin described the Big 12 as being in a state of "uncertainty" thanks to the intentions of the LHN. A reporter from the Bryan-College Station Eagle, a reporter from KBTX-TV and I were present for the interview following a closed-door session by the A&M regents. Since then Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe has tried twisting Loftin's words to say the A&M president meant the Longhorn Network was in a state of uncertainty - not the league.

Beebe's Twist didn't work, and let's be clear: Loftin was talking about the league. He repeated it several times to the three of us. Loftin also was clearly upset that what he described as a much-discussed idea of equality among league members from the June Big 12 board meetings wasn?t coming to fruition.

"We left that meeting feeling very good about ourselves - that we'd had a major step forward to achieve stability in the conference, and to really move forward solidly into the future, with a more unified view of where we were going than before," Loftin said.

Then, the Longhorn Network's announced plans for a Big 12 football game (UT vs. a TBD opponent) and airing high school games were "troubling" to that idea, Loftin said.
 
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muffler dragon;1962752; said:
To me, it's all for show. The Texas Legislature will keep that grouping together regardless of what the individual schools want.
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Good thing the Governor is a A&M grad... I hope it happens. I can't wait to see the melt down
 
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MililaniBuckeye;1962764; said:
The legislature can't say shit as to which NCAA conference a school belongs.
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What happened in the mid-'90s, when the SWC dissolved and the Big XII was formed, was talked about last year when expansion rumors were flying. The governor back then was Baylor alum Ann Richards, and if she hadn't been the guv back then Baylor probably would have headed for the WAC or Conference USA, which is what happened to Houston, Rice, SMU, and TCU (who deserved a better fate).

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Legend has it that Baylor's surprise invitation to join the Big 12 in 1994 was the result of some political arm-twisting behind closed doors. Richards, a Baylor graduate and lifelong Democrat who was governor of Texas at the time, wasn't about to let TCU beat out her alma mater for the final Big 12 opening.

Richards reportedly used intermediaries to inform legislative members who graduated from Texas and Texas A&M that some state-funding problems could develop for their alma maters if her beloved Bears weren't invited to the Big 12 party.

Richards wasn't on her own in this power play. Bob Bullock, the state's lieutenant governor, aided her because he had degrees from both Baylor and Texas Tech, the other school from the disbanded Southwest Conference that gained Big 12 membership.

And House Speaker Pete Laney, a Texas Tech alum, also helped secure the Red Raiders' future in the Big 12.

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knapplc;1962746; said:
That's what I don't get. A&M was in the SWC with Texas. They are not new to the Texas Way. Why they are suddenly so upset about this is beyond me.
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No High school games this year Big 12 backs one-year ban on high school telecasts on Longhorn Network

on a side note, I guess Oklahoma is working on their own network.... this is gonna be a mess ... So you'll have the Sooner Network, the Longhorn Network, the Aggie Network (UT mouth piece Chip Brown was saying how "A&M was behind on getting their own network up and running" and this is why they were bitching)

Also the mouth pieces on the radio were saying how they couldn't believe the Big Ten Network didn't do this first and how if the NCAA rules that they'll be showing high school games all the time...
 
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