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Posts posted by DCLonghorn
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Ticket sales still a huge percentage of football revenue.Attendance is hardly relevant any more.
It is all about television eyes.
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My NoVa eyeballs always see three times more WVa gear on folks than VTech or UVa gear on Saturdays. But a lot of all three. After those three, I see as many Longhorn decals on cars as any other national brand...ND, Ohio State, etc. Some UNC. Lots of military academy license plates... mostly Navy, then Army. But this place is full of folks from every where. I have a TCU flag and another Longhorn on my block. And a bunch of SEC flags in the hood. I don't give a shit, but the VA DMV offers aggy plates, but no UT plates. I always guessed that's because we just go with the metalish Longhorn decal over a plate. I see way more Horns than aggy... But they are around here too.Yeah, not saying they're not there, just saying they don't really dominate the conversation, football wise. UVA is positioned more as basketball.- 1
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My guess is that ESPN is less interested in poaching from another all-ESPN conference. If the ACC is as relatively underpaid and locked into such a long contract as discussed pages above, that's a good deal on good content for Mouse. Why blow that up when you can blow up Fox properties in the Big 12, Big 10, or the PAC?Clemson and Florida State may not be Texas and ou, but there is a lot of value in blowing up the ACC if the SEC has grand visions in the long-term. Go to 20 with those two and North Carolina plus Virginia and you force Notre Dame into a decision. Pick off the BIG three to close the door on the rust belt option and Notre Dame has to come. Grab some PAC schools and select a couple more BIGs or ACCs to get to a national conference with four 8 or 9 team divisions.- 1
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"The new deal will not change the conference’s philosophy on Thursday- or Friday-night games, Sankey says: There will be none."Yes, CBS is out and ABC in, for SEC Tier1.
https://www.si.com/college/2020/12/10/sec-espn-abc-tv-contract-leaving-cbs
Did not know this.- 1
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No doubts... But big doubts OU will be happy with that based on their anger over Fox Big Noon game.Well now ESPN has another network to throw lower tier SEC games to, the rebranded LHN now known as the SEC2 Network. Plus ESPN+ is going to get a lot of content, thus driving up subs. -
Bigger league with bigger marquee matchups... Scheduling for tv will get harder, not easier. Strange logic from OU.
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I am starting to wonder if the remaining Big 12/Ir8 structure becomes a Fox property when ESPN backs out... So that this fight for the remains is Fox v ESPN. Ir8 can go to ESPN, which is the stronger network, but the lesser conference (for now), or choose to keep the Big 12 and expand with the stronger conference but lesser network money. This could get interesting.
Will Bowls y send the same letter to Fox? Ha. -
This is becoming the Rick roll of this thread.
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Wasn't he one of the first non Cronkite "what starts here changes the world" voices on LHN?Never knew Bruce McGill was a UT alum. Awesome -
I called TEX from an airplane phone over the Pacific ocean. It cost a fucking fortune, but felt pretty damn futuristic compared to sitting on the ground in the Drum waiting for someone to come drop a class in person.For that real 90s throwback feel, you had to be calling Tex from a pay phone at some gas station in the middle of nowhere.- 2
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Drum in person Fall 89. Can't remember if they rolled out TEX for Spring 90 or not. Maybe?We had TEX as incoming freshmen in 1990. -
... and hurts FoxThis is more along my thinking but instead of coercing remaining schools coercing other conferences for a bump, by defacto ending the B12, that in the end saves ESPN and TX/ou money. -
SECN posted some hypothetical podsThe only people running with the pod stuff are fans from what I can see. No one with actual sources seems to be talking about pods. I think it's going to be 2 divisions. -
And HS football games! Ha ha haEven though it would be rebranded to be the SEC West Network, technically, wouldn’t Aggy play all their games on what was originally the Longhorn Network? That is going to sting a little -
No one by that names works for the SEC.Nothing to ragert. Not sure about source
https://www.secsports.com/article/11285694/sec-office-staff-directory- 2
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Nope... Just odd to say they underperform every year a month and a half after they made super regionals.So is it your contention that UT softball is historically an NCAA power, like say volleyball or women's swimming & diving or track & field? (Purposefully ignoring women's basketball.) -
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UT softball is entrenched but a perennial underperformer.
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You just made me cry a littleSo when we move to the SEC does that mean realignment talk will go away?- 1
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Yeah... I keep wondering why 16 is a magic number. Why do the others have to follow if they can't poach great programs?I have a sneaking suspicion that the B12 is t going to die, and so this will go the legal/negotiated buy route.
We all talk about schools poaching the Tagalong 8, but which ones move the needle enough to make the move worthwhile?
Can you justify expansion to USC and UCLA by saying TT and OSU will bring in more $$?
Does bringing in KU, ISU or OSU fly with Minnesota or Michigan, knowing that those inclusions won’t increase the payout and will finally kill the dream of landing ND?
How do you sell WVU to the rest of the ACC, knowing they are only “valuable” for a group of 3 geographic rivals.
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To be injected directly into your cock veins
https://www.si.com/college/2021/07/24/texas-am-cant-escape-sec-shadow-longhorns
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Have never seen this. Where the hell have I been? This is amazing. I am now fully on board with joining the SEC.One of the best videos of all time. Bitch would not be denied.- 1
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Everyone should spend some time watching SECN and Paul F. You may miss Lowell before too long.That makes me wonder where Lowell Galindo will wind up?
I wonder if there will still be a need for what he does calling sports and pre game shows, just much less of it. I hope they find a way to put the LHN content on E+ or SECN+ and they keep up the pregame/halftime stuff for at least the big 3 sports. For all the LHN grumbling, it goes a long way to connect far away alumni to UT. And nothing better to indoctrinate my kids in all thing UT from a time zone away.- 3
Realignment talk not going away
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Last year, we made $20.6m on media rights. In 2019, we made $37m on ticket sales.
Of course TV/streaming has more growth potential than tickets. But with cord cutting, that's not a given.
And these numbers are before our new uterine suites are raising more money...and before any SEC TV money bump.