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

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Texas boots player for racial slur posted on Facebook page

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A Texas Longhorns team leader said Monday he approved of the way coaches handled the dismissal of a player who posted a racial slur on his Facebook page about President-elect Barack Obama.
Backup center Buck Burnette left No. 4 Texas on Wednesday for what was announced as an unspecified violation of team rules. Burnette, a sophomore, played in seven games this season.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Burnette apologized and said he made a "terrible decision" to post a text message he received about Obama's victory that contained a racial slur.
Senior defensive end Brian Orakpo said he considered the dismissal "appropriate."
"I thought the coaches did a good job on handling the situation," Orakpo said. "My prayers are for him, but we've got to move on. Guys got to make better decisions for their future."
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Entire article: Buck Burnette was dismissed from No. 4 Texas on Wednesday. - NCAA Football - SI.com
 
HailToMichigan;1322447; said:
A little harsh given that lots of players commit actual crimes that actually hurt actual people (or have the potential to) and get to keep their scholarship.
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without knowing much about the situation, your post seems right on to me. my initial reaction is that this is rediculous.
 
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Longhorn TV and ESPN

http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1148672

Looks like Texas will garner $12 million per season for the rights to their TV network. I believe that Texas only has the rights to 1-2 of their own games per season. ESPN essentially blew the market away on the deal, which basically means that subscription rates can almost be guaranteed to be increased to cover the cost. I think ESPN really wants to keep all Texas games in-house. BTW, it is a 10-year deal.

This is after last week was reported that $3 million per season is what could be expected (http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/67235)

That just seems like extremely poor business, however the college football market has seen unheard of growth in the viewership rates and revenue, so $12 million could be a bargain... eventually.
 
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This makes no sense, and sounds like a bunch of wild rumors to me.

First of all, ESPN does not decide what channels cable and satellite providers show. Next, who is providing the overhead? The B10 numbers are after profit. If Texas needs to foot the bills for the network, well, $10 million a year goes quick.

Are they saying ESPN will turn into "The Longhorn Network?" Where is this channel actually going to be shown? If ESPN just controls the rights, it does not guarantee coast to coast viewership.

This whole article is fishy, just like the crap about the new contract the B12 spewed this Summer.

Of course it's written by Chip Brown, so excuse my while I call bullshit.

edit: Reading more on this, the same trouble word comes up over and over again....revenue. The B10 Network makes way more in revenue than $10 million per school. That $10 million per school is profit. I would really like to see some more details. I fail to see how ESPN can pay a school $12 million a year, run the entire network, and actually make a profit with about 1% of the game content you see with a conference. I could understand if it was a Notre Dame like deal for all home games. Yet 1 football game and a handful of basketball games is not much. In order to get it on the air they would need to further leverage their brand which is already stretched with ESPNU, ESPN Classic, ESPN3, etc.
 
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Scott, I couldn't agree more.

This deal seems like it is lacking in some details currently. I think the $12 million is high. It could be $12 million to Texas may also be having ESPN ask UT to put up the infrastructure, I have no idea. Texas' brand isn't THAT high.

But that's the article currently. I think Chip Brown has a lot of issues with reporting with scant details, but he was correct on that 16 team issue and also correct on UT backing out of it so he has some credibility amongst Longhorn issues.
 
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Diego-Bucks;1805423; said:
Scott, I couldn't agree more.

This deal seems like it is lacking in some details currently. I think the $12 million is high. It could be $12 million to Texas may also be having ESPN ask UT to put up the infrastructure, I have no idea. Texas' brand isn't THAT high.

But that's the article currently. I think Chip Brown has a lot of issues with reporting with scant details, but he was correct on that 16 team issue and also correct on UT backing out of it so he has some credibility amongst Longhorn issues.
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He was right as many times as he was wrong. I have no doubt he has some info fed to him, but he likes to report without solid facts. Of course he and his Longhorn/B12 buddies are still reporting ABC/ESPN is going to pay the B12 more per school than they do the SEC.

I am sure there is some shred of truth to all of this, but he loves to shoot out details with zero confirmation. It's one thing to report speculation, it's another to report unsubstantiated details.
 
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http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsport...-purchase-of-longhorns-with-300-million-deal/

ESPN completes purchase of Longhorns with $300 million deal

Posted by John Taylor on January 19, 2011, 11:48 AM EST

Back in November, the Texas Board of Regents gave UT president William Powers the authority to pursue the creation of the Longhorn Network.
That months-long flirtation reached its climax Wednesday, and presumably there will be many a UT official puffing on a Marlboro in the consummation?s money-green afterglow.
First reported by the Sports Business Daily Tuesday, and later confirmed by the Austin American-Statesman, Texas has reached an agreement with ESPN on a 20-year, $300 million deal that will create a 24-hour television channel devoted to all things Texas Longhorns.
As the agreement was negotiated by IMG College, the Longhorns? multimedia rights holder, UT will actually realize annual compensation of roughly $12.5 a year from the ESPN deal after IMG takes their cut. The first years, however, UT will be forced to ?get by? on ?just? $10 million a year. Combined with the Big 12-ish?s network deals ? UT?s share is not impacted by the new side deal with ESPN ? UT stands to rake in at least $30 million a year just from those two deals.
?We see this as a very important part of sort of continuing to reinvent the models through which we do business,? Powers said. ?This is reflective of being much more creative in how public higher education positions itself as we go forward, even aside from the athletics.?
Unbelievably, ESPN is paying $15 million a year ? plus committing $400 million in production value according to the SBD ? and will only televise one, maybe two football games a year. Other programming on the Longhorn Network (ESPNUT?) will include, the American-Statesman writes, a larger but unspecified number of men?s basketball games and a variety of other men?s and women?s sports, including volleyball and swimming. Then there?s this beauty:
Non-athletic fare is likely to run for about three hours a day and include musical performances, plays, and documentaries by faculty members and students, Powers said. Details are yet to be worked out.
?This will be high-level, entertaining cultural, music, scientific, Discovery Channel, History Channel kind of stuff,? Powers said. ?And we have a team put together working on it, and that will be done in collaboration with ESPN.?
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What, no ?Austin City Limits? or ?Walker, Texas Ranger? reruns?
The new network is scheduled to officially launch this coming fall. As far as distribution is concerned, it?s expected to appear on basic cable platforms in Texas, Oklahoma and possibly parts of Louisiana, and in premium packages throughout the rest of the country.
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ScriptOhio;1322036; said:
Texas boots player for racial slur posted on Facebook page

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- A Texas Longhorns team leader said Monday he approved of the way coaches handled the dismissal of a player who posted a racial slur on his Facebook page about President-elect Barack Obama.
Backup center Buck Burnette left No. 4 Texas on Wednesday for what was announced as an unspecified violation of team rules. Burnette, a sophomore, played in seven games this season.
In a statement to The Associated Press, Burnette apologized and said he made a "terrible decision" to post a text message he received about Obama's victory that contained a racial slur.
Senior defensive end Brian Orakpo said he considered the dismissal "appropriate."
"I thought the coaches did a good job on handling the situation," Orakpo said. "My prayers are for him, but we've got to move on. Guys got to make better decisions for their future."
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Entire article: Buck Burnette was dismissed from No. 4 Texas on Wednesday. - NCAA Football - SI.com
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fourteenandoh;1322454; said:
without knowing much about the situation, your post seems right on to me. my initial reaction is that this is rediculous.
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Move to oversigning thread?
 
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Even though this was probably part of the deal the school made to stay in the Big 12, it's somewhat obvious why some schools (Mizzou) want out of the Big 12 ASAP and away from certain inequalities that are not present in other conferences.

Three for us, one for you.
 
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Supposedly the Fox bid was $2 Million annually and they haven't exactly been low balling on the various rights packages they've been competing with ESPN over.

I have a feeling that ESPN massively overpaid to get the UT deal down and is probably going to lose money on the deal...the big question is why? ESPN isn't stupid so what is coming down the pipeline that we don't know about yet?
 
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