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Posted on 7/21/21 at 8:57 pm to bigDgator
Aggies going to run screaming from the league like little girls if the t sips join
Posted on 7/21/21 at 9:04 pm to Krampus
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The Big 12 got Oklahoma to stay by guaranteeing them the same minimum annual payout as Texas. Both minimum payouts are paid by taking miney away from the other 8 schools in the Big 12.
And even now, with all that. OU has regular season games that are not televised. They're on PPV like it's still 1993. Or only availabe by online stream. Because Texas wants their own channel instead of building one the whole conference can benefit from.
Texas is not a partner. They're a solo act, regardless of what conference they're in. OU's lot is thrown in with Texas because the Big 12 is the best they can do unless and until the OK legislature uncouples them from Okie St. So IMO they're making the best lemonade that can with the lemons they've been given by their government.
I have no problem at all with OU joining the SEC BTW. I think they'd be a good culteral fit, a good partner, and be great competition for the SEC.
You are kind of all over the place with your arguments here which only makes you look way too desperate, it is kind of pitiful. I am going to argue each one individually.
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The Big 12 got Oklahoma to stay by guaranteeing them the same minimum annual payout as Texas. Both minimum payouts are paid by taking miney away from the other 8 schools in the Big 12.
OK do you think Texas is going to get a bigger payout than everyone else in the SEC? I can assure you they will not.
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And even now, with all that. OU has regular season games that are not televised. They're on PPV like it's still 1993. Or only availabe by online stream. Because Texas wants their own channel instead of building one the whole conference can benefit from.
This argument is also moot. Every game is televised in the SEC. I have no idea how they will work out the Longhorn Network though. I would think it will now go away as it wasn't a big money maker IIRC.
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OU's lot is thrown in with Texas because the Big 12 is the best they can do unless and until the OK legislature uncouples them from Okie St.
I was told the same thing by A&M fans 10 years ago about the Texas legislature that they would never let A&M go to the SEC because it would hurt Texas.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 9:06 pm to bigDgator
You finally get out from under big bros shadow, head off to college only for him to transfer the following year and start banging all your friends
Posted on 7/21/21 at 9:07 pm to bigDgator
No you weren’t.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 9:07 pm to bigDgator
We would never agree to allow that cancer to ruin your conference.
If they come in, so does the girls school from Tallahassee. Careful what you wish for.
If they come in, so does the girls school from Tallahassee. Careful what you wish for.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 9:38 pm to laxtonto
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Texas then approached A&M to partner on a network and received essentially the same response,
Because y’all wanted to split the costs and media inventory requirements in half but then get more of the revenue split. The “Lonestar Network” proposal was just another example of arrogant Texas bullshite.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 9:59 pm to cardboardboxer
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Because y’all wanted to split the costs and media inventory requirements in half but then get more of the revenue split. The “Lonestar Network” proposal was just another example of arrogant Texas bullshite.
Almost correct. Not "split" costs, not in the end.
The first offer was a 50/50 split but A&M couldn't afford the initial payout for startup costs.
A&M didn't have the liquidity at the time to split the significant startup costs, so the compromise proposed was that UT was going to be on the hook for building the entire production facility, communications setup, all the other static broadcast hardware and take a different percentage. UT was willing to do this because they were planning are dumping cash into their broadcast journalism program anyways, so it was partially earmarked already.
A&M didn't believe at the time it would ever break even to balance out the cost to hardwire their other infrastructure to provide broadcast feeds (much less split costs on a shared facility), so they declined in the end.
Once again, at the time I cant blame them because the Conference Network model was an unknown and very simply the payout by the media deals made these types of "gambles" hard to go with considering 08 and 09 weren't banner years and so the cash made sense to be spent elsewhere.
The revisionist history on these things are mind blowing.
Posted on 7/21/21 at 10:01 pm to bigDgator
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This argument is also moot. Every game is televised in the SEC. I have no idea how they will work out the Longhorn Network though. I would think it will now go away as it wasn't a big money maker IIRC.
Those weren't arguments. They were examples of the "cherished relationship" you claim OU has with Texas, and how well it's worked out for them.
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