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

[BB73]

No high school games for at least the first year.

SI.com

Big 12 places restrictions on Longhorn Network

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Big 12 athletic directors voted Monday to prohibit the broadcast of any high school sporting events on the newly created Longhorn Network for at least the next year.

The conference announced that the ADs voted unanimously to forbid such content on any medium branded as a conference or member institution platform. Controversy had been stirred up at the suggestion that Texas could show games featuring players it was recruiting on its network set to launch this month.

The athletic directors instituted a one-year moratorium and decided that it would not be lifted unless the NCAA rules that such content would be permissible. The ADs also suggested that the Big 12's board of directors should encourage the NCAA to impose a similar one-year moratorium across the country.

The ADs also decided that any conference game aired on the Longhorn Network would require approval of the conference and the opposing school.
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Texas is the only Big 12 school with a network that qualifies so far, although Texas A&M and Oklahoma have discussed putting one together. The Longhorn Network - created through a 20-year, $300 million deal with ESPN - is set to launch Aug. 26.

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[Bleed S & G]

Seems like a slippery slope.. and feels dirty.. airing the HS school games that is.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

you got that first part about [censored]-hole right. Not all soldiers from Riley [censored] their funds away. Many drive to Kansas City, stay on post, or you could do like me and drive home over the weekend since it's within the 250 mile radius (Omaha).

What, no love for Junction City?

I went to Power & Light a few too many times and did unthinkable things to some statues by the International (I think that is the name).

I lived in both the Little Apple and JC. Both are awful. Manhattan is a terrible college town. But it is nice to see Soldiers steal college girls from the broke hippy/emo/popped collar college boys from time to time.

 

[Muck]

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).

All of them deserved a better fate or just TCU?

If the latter...why?

The only school with a worse conference record in the SWC than TCU was Rice. TCU trailed both Baylor & Tech (who were abominable for most of the conference's existence).

 

[Jaxbuck]

I went to Power & Light a few too many times and did unthinkable things to some statues by the International (I think that is the name).

I lived in both the Little Apple and JC. Both are awful. Manhattan is a terrible college town. But it is nice to see Soldiers steal college girls from the broke hippy/emo/popped collar college boys from time to time.

If we weren't getting laid we were beating some college kids ass when we went down there and we went down there a lot.

They were not big fans because most of us were vets, older, traveled in large groups and came from significantly different (rougher) backgrounds than they did. The football players were a special target. Groups of soldiers that didn't even know each other would team up and do some damage when they were on the radar. I feel bad about it now but at the time I was liquored up and pretty well pissed off at life. :!

One good thing about Manhattan, I saw Sam Kinison do a show there two nights in a row shortly before he died, all new material. It was almost worth the 4 years of hell I spent in that place.

 

[ArmyVet83]

If we weren't getting laid we were beating some college kids ass when we went down there and we went down there a lot.

They were not big fans because most of us were vets, older, traveled in large groups and came from significantly different (rougher) backgrounds than they did. The football players were a special target. Groups of soldiers that didn't even know each other would team up and do some damage when they were on the radar. I feel bad about it now but at the time I was liquored up and pretty well pissed off at life. :!

One good thing about Manhattan, I saw Sam Kinison do a show there two nights in a row shortly before he died, all new material. It was almost worth the 4 years of hell I spent in that place.

You pissed off at life? I find that very hard to believe.

Sam Kinison. One of the great shock comics of all time. Fucking loved that guy. Wife would get pissed when I would listen to him in the car with my step-son (12 at the time). I couldn't figure out why because we both would be laughing so hard we would be shedding tears.

As far as us VETS go, it didn't matter if it was a college town or a foreign land. We took it upon ourselves to be great ambassadors, especially to the lady folk and if anyone had a problem with it, we dealt with it in the appropriate military manner.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

No high school games for at least the first year.

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Am I the only one who feels the Big XII-II is held together by duct tape and chewing gum? The crumbling of what's left seems inevitible...

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

As far as us VETS go, it didn't matter if it was a college town or a foreign land. We took it upon ourselves to be great ambassadors, especially to the lady folk and if anyone had a problem with it, we dealt with it in the appropriate military manner.

Yes we do. I would like to thank multiple Army towns for allowing me to be an ambassador of peace, hope, and love.


I will always remember the day in Lawton, OK when the Texa$ fans watched the Buckeyes beat them at home and the day in Manhattan the Mizzou and WVU fans watched as their chance at a NC went bye-bye.

 

[BB73]

All of them deserved a better fate or just TCU?

If the latter...why?

The only school with a worse conference record in the SWC than TCU was Rice. TCU trailed both Baylor & Tech (who were abominable for most of the conference's existence).

I meant TCU specifically. They had been a member of the SWC since the 1920s, and had National Championship years in the 1930s with Sammy Baugh (a Charter member of the NFL Hall of Fame) and Davey O'Brien (who won the Heisman and has a QB Award named after him). I think their long history has been a real factor in their resurgence over the past decade. Admittedly, they were pretty bad in football from 1960 until 1995.

Houston also could be said to have deserved a better fate, but they had only been in the conference for about 20 years when it dissolved. Their basketball program had great success in the 1980s, but football is what matters down there when conference realignment occurs.

Rice had great academics but little to offer from the perspective of the main sports teams.

Baylor just never moved the needle for me, although they had a decent stretch under Grant Teaff.

SMU was still wallowing in the after-effects of their scandals/probation, and I didn't care what happened to them after they got the Death Penalty.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

I feel bad about it now but at the time I was liquored up and pretty well pissed off at life. :!

Good lord. We're experiencing the mellow version of jax? That's scary.

 

[alexhortdog95]

No high school games for at least the first year.

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Damn, Matthew McConaughey will be upset that he can't take his shirt off...

 

[knapplc]

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...

For the record, Nebraska was working on their own network as well. It would have been a success, too, and would have further fractured an already badly fractured conference.

 

[Muck]

I think their long history has been a real factor in their resurgence over the past decade.

See I don't believe that at all. I firmly believe their resurgence is based on...

1. Playing a bottom feeder schedule (people can hate on Gee all they want but he was absolutely correct).

2. Massive reinvestment in the athletic department bringing the infrastructure inline with what is required to be competitive at a national level.

In TCU's defense They didn't have much choice in regards to #1 and they should receive credit for #2 which is IMO the primary factor in helping them find a home in a BCS conference (albeit the Big East).

 

[BB73]

See I don't believe that at all. I firmly believe their resurgence is based on...

1. Playing a bottom feeder schedule (people can hate on Gee all they want but he was absolutely correct).

2. Massive reinvestment in the athletic department bringing the infrastructure inline with what is required to be competitive at a national level.

In TCU's defense #2 is IMO the primary factor in helping them find a home in a BCS conference (albeit the Big East). They didn't have much choice with #1.

The schedule has certainly helped them, but I think the history is a big factor in getting the reinvestment into the athletic department. Not every school has a T. Boone Pickens or a Phil Knight willing to dump a bunch of money into a program that never had big-time success.

 

[Muck]

The schedule has certainly helped them, but I think the history is a big factor in getting the reinvestment into the athletic department.

What is the reason that you believe that to be the case?

Did the decision makers ever say "Well look before 1940 we didn't suck so it's time to work towards getting back to our rightful place in CFL"...how many of their current fans even know that they were pretty good in the 30's?