Texas to give up high school highlights on LHN

[WestCoastHusky]

http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1275023

This could mean Missouri is staying. This is good news for us. If Missouri is staying and they only add 1 school, I would think BYU would be it and B12 stops at 10.

This means SEC has to get a 14th team somewhere. If they don't get WVU which means 1 ACC team will be on SEC's target list. If that happens, it could be good news for UCONN as #14.

Of course, if B12 goes to 12 or 14 and take multiple BE teams, we are still screwed.

 

[upstater]

I don't think this was relevant for anyone but Oklahoma and Texas A&M.
They were the only two other schools that could possibly compete with Texas for a top recruit. Missouri has no worries in this regard. They are not beating out Texas for Texas recruits. It has little impact on their bottom line.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

The NCAA was going to take care of this eventually anyway.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

No, this could be a sign the Big 12 is making a play to keep Mizzou. Of course, the LHN and Texas' demands are the only reason the conference was breaking up in the first place. The high school broadcasts were one of the key points of contention of all of the other schools. Could be good news, could be nothing.

 

[HartbeatHusky]

I think Mizzou is as good as gone. They said that they wanted Big 10 but that SEC is "what's left". Doesn't sound like they are planning to stay to me.

 

[RS9999X]

This reminds me of GM, Ford and Chrysler flying to Washington on pricey private jets in Fall 2008 to ask for handouts acting like they were all AIG Financial or something.

It defines the relationship in a nutshell. Texas is either completely clueless or wants vassal slaves or sizes up the situation entirely wrong.

 

[Fishy]

If anyone thinks Missouri's underwear is in a bunch because the Longhorn Network was gonna show high school football highlights, they be nuts.

It's not even an issue for A&M - the Brinks' trucks filled with money making weekly stops at the U of T is the issue. A&M and co. don't want to recruit against Texas when the Longhorns are gluing diamonds onto players' shoulder pads and providing a harem of hookers to lace 'em up for them on game day.

 

[Chuck]

If anyone thinks Missouri's underwear is in a bunch because the Longhorn Network was gonna show high school football highlights, they be nuts.

It's not even an issue for A&M - the Brinks' trucks filled with money making weekly stops at the U of T is the issue. A&M and co. don't want to recruit against Texas when the Longhorns are gluing diamonds onto players' shoulder pads and providing a harem of hookers to lace 'em up for them on game day.

Unless A&M and Mizzou don't have a problem with the concept of paying players with gemstones and carnal favors, but just can't compete with the quality of Tejas' hookers, should they really be going to the SEC? They'd be going from a conference where they have to worry about a few programs to one where even the bottom feeders have a payroll that makes the Yankees demand a salary cap.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Unless A&M and Mizzou don't have a problem with the concept of paying players with gemstones and carnal favors, but just can't compete with the quality of Tejas' hookers, should they really be going to the SEC? They'd be going from a conference where they have to worry about a few programs to one where even the bottom feeders have a payroll that makes the Yankees demand a salary cap.

Agreed this is a crazy argument. The SEC is much deeper and just as top heavy. A&M is leaving so it doesn't have to forever be the 2nd best TX school in its league. Oklahoma is routinely better than UT anyway. Missouri will stay. The SEC was just a nice fallback when it looked like the Big XII leftovers would need to merge with the BE. They're just buying time to talk the B1G into offering them. Nobody in St. Louis or KC feels any connection to the deep south. Missouri has tons of students from Chicago, that is their undergraduate recruiting area.

 

[RS9999X]

Missouri has a long tradition in the B12. More precisely the Big 8 before they fell for the Texas Merger with Texas, texas Tech, A&M and Baylor.

The Kansas/Missouri rivalries aren't kissed off lightly. If UConn and BC had 100 years of football rivalries it would be similar. 1907!

Then there's the hard reality -- Texas tried to throw them under the bus in 2010 and again in 2011. Big 8 conference mates Nebraska and Colorado knew enough to leave. A&M knew enough to leave. The 4 predators are still there. Waiting for a better deal to gut the remaining members of the Big 8.

They have to go if the SEC beckons. They want another 100 years of tradition and rivalries and yes, a stable income flow.

 

[UConnSportsGuy]

If Texas is willing to go to equal shares on all Tier 1 and 2 games, and make concesions on their LHN....why wouldn't they just go to the PAC 12 then?

The reason the PAC 12 didn't want Texlahoma a month ago was because of the LHN and revenue splits. If Texas is willing to make those concessions now, why not just make those concessions and go to the PAC 12 instead of the Big 12? They would make more money and be in a more stable/reputable conference.

It makes me think that Texas never had any intention of leaving the Big 12, they were just trying to keep as much as they could before keeping the Big 12 together. Which sucks, because that is what started all of the expansion stuff (and ACC raid) in the first place!

 

[alexrgct]

Missouri has a long tradition in the B12. More precisely the Big 8 before they fell for the Texas Merger with Texas, texas Tech, A&M and Baylor.

The Kansas/Missouri rivalries aren't kissed off lightly. If UConn and BC had 100 years of football rivalries it would be similar. 1907!

Then there's the hard reality -- Texas tried to throw them under the bus in 2010 and again in 2011. Big 8 conference mates Nebraska and Colorado knew enough to leave. A&M knew enough to leave. The 4 predators are still there. Waiting for a better deal to gut the remaining members of the Big 8.

They have to go if the SEC beckons. They want another 100 years of tradition and rivalries and yes, a stable income flow.

If by "fell for," you mean "joined forces with one of the largest markets and pools of high school talent before their union of worthless Plains states was unable to get a competitive TV deal," you're spot on.

And actually, Mizzou actively courting the Big 10 (and CU the PAC) over the last several years set off the almost conference armageddon of 2010. Nebraska always had its panties in a wad because Texas refused to join the Big XII until Nebraska discontinued its tradition of using state scholarship programs to inflate their roster and admitting partial qualifers...and then repeatedly beat them on the field. God forbid there be actual academic standards.

What meaningful tradition and rivalries is Mizzou going to have in the SEC exactly? Kansas and Missouri are border states with a lot of shared history that has nothing to do with football. In fact, the football has been mostly terrible.

A&M leaving was just stupid. They're joining a conference where every big program has its own Tier 3 rights, is dirty as hell (as in dealing with street agents, paying players, and a bunch of other stuff Texas doesn't do), and will out-recruit them in their own respective backyards and possibly A&M's. What's especially funny is that Texas approached A&M with a joint network proposal years ago. A&M was too rudderless and visionless to see the potential, and now they're using the LHN as an excuse for doing something their own president admitted they were looking to do months before the LHN deal was even inked.

 

[alexrgct]

If Texas is willing to go to equal shares on all Tier 1 and 2 games, and make concesions on their LHN....why wouldn't they just go to the PAC 12 then?

The reason the PAC 12 didn't want Texlahoma a month ago was because of the LHN and revenue splits. If Texas is willing to make those concessions now, why not just make those concessions and go to the PAC 12 instead of the Big 12? They would make more money and be in a more stable/reputable conference.

It makes me think that Texas never had any intention of leaving the Big 12, they were just trying to keep as much as they could before keeping the Big 12 together. Which sucks, because that is what started all of the expansion stuff (and ACC raid) in the first place!

The PAC with Texas, TT, OU and OK State would be a monstrosity of a conference spanning three and a half time zones (AZ has its own time zone because it doesn't observe DST) and thousands of miles. Its two biggest football commodities, USC and Oregon, are dirty as hell. For non-revenue sports, the travel would be ridiculous.

Texas would much prefer a more localized conference featuring as many matchups as possible between schools within the state of Texas. It's great for recruiting, it keeps money in Texas, and it keeps costs down.