Please tell me if I'm wrong here - if it turns out to be the ISU-Texas game that goes to the Longhorn Network that would mean I'd have to give money to Texas to watch it live??? **** that.
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Please tell me if I'm wrong here - if it turns out to be the ISU-Texas game that goes to the Longhorn Network that would mean I'd have to give money to Texas to watch it live??? **** that.
Won't happen, we have the say in that game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyrok
And also, it is likely the second best game that week.
There are thinkers in Missourah? Funny I was in Missourah last week and I didnt see any thinkers.Quote:
Originally Posted by CycloneErik
If I want a good look at a tbone, I could stick my head up Bevo's ***, but I'd rather just take coach's word on it.
I couldn't care less. Are we still making more than a year ago? Yup. Are we still in a BCS conference? Yup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyrok
The ISU/Texas game is in Ames, therefore ISU makes the call. Let alone the obvious fact that all of their network essentials would be located in Austin, which would be a massive pain in the ***/expense to attempt to bring up to Ames and setup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyrok
Not sure why anyone is up in arms about this, it's a single game for one year, who cares. With Texas televising this one game, FOX gets to add another B12 national broadcast to it's lineup as well. So yeah, Kansas fans may not get to see Texas shitstomp the Jayhawks in Austin this year, but two other teams get an opportunity to play in a nationally broadcasted game that they otherwise wouldn't have gotten.
People are just ****** because it's Texas and they feel the need to be angry about something.
I agree. If Texas makes any move beneficial to themselves, everyone is going to panic.Quote:
Originally Posted by CYphyllis
I don't know, Bevo network beats no TV, which we've seen plenty of times in the lasat few years. Everything changes for the better in 2012.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyrok
This is brilliant and deserves a rep boost, but I can't do it, since you said something else recently.Quote:
Originally Posted by CYphyllis
We aren't going to lose anything on this, but we'll win in the deal. Sounds like a good deal to me.
Chances are they'll get a game in order to get the Longhorn Network more subscribers. A Texas-ISU game doesn't attract many new subscribers. To that end, depending on how we start the season, that game very easily could land on ABC, especially if we knock off Iowa.
Chances are it'll either be the Kansas game for Texas, or one against a team from Oklahoma or Texas. That's where LHN wants subscribers, they know that the Iowa State game isn't gonna deliver much.
Hey I live in Missouri (but north of the Missourah line), but I am an ISU grad so there are some thinkers down here.Quote:
Originally Posted by CyCrazy
There's two games that are likely candidates to be the second game to be placed on LHN
10/29 vs Kansas
11/5 vs Texas Tech
We play Tech on the 29th and we play Kansas on the 5th. The LHN getting another game means we're likely going to see one of our games against two of the worst teams in the Big 12 get bumped up in the TV pecking order, likely from FCS to FSN. This isn't a bad thing and is just another example of how Texas wanting more actually works out to help us in the long run.
It won't be the ISU game, as we're at home. Conventional wisdom holds that it would be Baylor or Texas Tech. That's what I'd go with, if I were them and trying to get the network to go. I'd like them just happy enough with it to keep them around the Big XII, but not so happy that they go independent like BYU and Notre Dame. Need to keep that BCS money floating to ISU's AD for facility improvements for a long while....
i cant believe some of you are trying to justify this! wow.
i follow ISU as a second team considering i went to school there, so i hate to see this happen.
Al_4_state, you might as well just bend over and take it, because that is what you are doing without complaint.
essentially what is happening here is that UT is going to make more money off of other fans that have to buy the network to watch one game and that money could be spent on that fans own team! and tv is tv sure but not everywhere is going to have access to the longhorn network.
ISU fans are the ONLY fans in the big12 that seem to be ok with this happening other that UT of course. there is a reason that the other 8 teams arent too happy about it. i mean give me a break, i understand that ISU has not had historically great teams but that doesnt mean they need to just bend over.
I guess I'll change all of my thoughts because a Husker fan with their balanced view of Texas tells me that nobody else in the conference that they are leaving supports this sort of thing.