Longhorn Network makes playing Texas worthless: Just ask Ole Miss

[pmull]

Texas will have trouble scheduling a big non conference game in the future unless they agree that it can be televised on a national network.

As announced Tuesday, the second and final game between the Rebels and Longhorns in Austin has been optioned by LHN, relegating the game to a paltry TV audience of an estimated 10 million subscribers nationwide and virtually blacking out the visiting team's TV footprint (for now). If it's aired only on the LHN, almost no one in SEC country will see the game, nor will any future college football players in almost every state the Rebels regularly recruit.

The University of Mississippi will get paid for the game, no doubt, but as a member of the opulent SEC, that's a footnote. The point of the game was and is national exposure, and the Rebels just got a taste of what sent Texas A&M into the neighborhood.

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[Marshal Dillon]

Wow! The only teams who will schedule Texas will be the most lower-end teams around like UAB, Georgia State, Indiana, Tulane, etc. The Longhorn Network is destined to have a short life.



 

[ricky023]

Hey MD either that or TEXAS will have have a short life. I gather this is all their sports not just football. RTR!

[Catch Prothro]

It will be funny when Ole Miss beats them.

[SUPERCOACH]

It will be funny when Ole Miss beats them.

Indeed. 

[cbbama99]

It will be funny when Ole Miss beats them.

Absolutely. I have never pulled much for the Rebs, but I sure will be given them my full support that day.

[pmull]

It will be funny when Ole Miss beats them.

Absolutely. I have never pulled much for the Rebs, but I sure will be given them my full support that day.

Ole Miss is like Vandy. It does not hurt for them to win a few games as long as they stay out of our way.

[McBaman]

I can't remember the chronology of it all, but it seems like the landscape in college football has significantly changed since LHN was announced.  To some degree, LHN triggered the start of all the change.  So LHN may well end up being one of those "seemed like a good idea at the time"  type of things.  If TX wants to have meaningful non-conf games in the era of the new playoff system, where strength of schedule will be scrutinized, then some change will have to be made at least for football games on LHN.

[Leroy]

It will be funny when Ole Miss beats them.

 

[Marshal Dillon]

I can't remember the chronology of it all, but it seems like the landscape in college football has significantly changed since LHN was announced.  To some degree, LHN triggered the start of all the change.  So LHN may well end up being one of those "seemed like a good idea at the time"  type of things.  If TX wants to have meaningful non-conf games in the era of the new playoff system, where strength of schedule will be scrutinized, then some change will have to be made at least for football games on LHN.

Good points. The only teams which will be seen on the Longhorn Net. are bottom of the barrel types. This will kill their SOS. Why would anyone subscribe to watch Texas vs UAB, Texas vs Georgia State, etc. I bet the same problem will occur in basketball. Even Mack Brown does not like the LHN.


 

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