No high-school games, limits on conference games on LHN

Big 12 athletic directors voted to ban broadcasts of high-school games on the LHN for one year while the NCAA figures out what it wants to do with school- and conference-specific networks. Additionally, conference games can only be broadcast by LHN if the opposing school agrees and LHN (or UT) compensates that school.

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TB, I saw your comments over at BON from yesterday about this subject

Don’t know why you bothered jumping into that discussion with so many unreasonable people, both from UT and A&M fan persuasions. But being as you did, you’re questions were logical – and of course – by-and-large ignored. UT fans seem to think the (undeveloped) world is against them so they can justifiably say “screw you” and turn independent, while A&M fans bang on the “Big-12 is doomed” meme until all the air is out of the tire. It’s exhausting reading those discussion threads. But anyway, you did good – and were the lone voice of reason in a sea of insanity. Thank heavens these are just fans and that administrators and athletic directors seem to have cooler heads and more realistic outlooks.
While I do think the high school games being shown on LHN is an issue for the conference, it is for college football as a whole, too. I just don’t see the conference breaking up anytime soon, but perhaps that is just my wishful thinking.

by CT-K-Stater on Aug 2, 2011 9:00 PM CDT reply actions

so that made me go read the thread on BON

BON thread

and at the bottom of the BON thread is this link which pretty much echos what RMN’s article said.

If nothing else, all this stirred up lots of rivalry … wonder if it will go away before the football starts?

The time for calm and rational discourse is past, now is the time for senseless bickering -Anonymous the Younger

by Anon_the_younger on Aug 2, 2011 9:41 PM CDT up reply actions

I still think

that A&M and Texas are tied to the hip more than they’d each like to admit. And OU likes being in the same conference with Texas, too, warts and all. And Barry Tramel makes some of TBs points in a post today.

by CT-K-Stater on Aug 3, 2011 8:44 AM CDT up reply actions

What I liked best was the constant references to Deloss Dodd's "tactical brilliance"

A&M made Texas blink twice in as many years. How is overreaching and being forced to back down tactical brilliance? Something tells me that Dodds could spit on the sidewalk and Longhorn fans would consider it tactical brilliance.

by Gaknar on Aug 3, 2011 2:30 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs

Very true, Gak

and I liked your comment (or should I say outburst? :)) at Cowboys Ride for Free last week regarding suggestions that Mizzou was a guilty party in the Big-12 chaos last summer.
I think Mizzou, K-State, KU, Iowa State, TTU, Okie State and Baylor need to band together as much as possible in order to provide a stronger core for the conference going forward. Our best hope is to stick together regardless of how all this stuff shakes out, Big-12 remaining in place or not (I still think it holds together better than media pundits suggest and I don’t buy the “Super Conference” notion for a many reasons).

by CT-K-Stater on Aug 3, 2011 3:06 PM CDT up reply actions

Yeah, it's "tactically brilliant" in the same way

that MacArthur chasing the N. Koreans to the Yalu, and then getting waylaid by the Chinese, was “tactically brilliant.” In other words, Dodds had better have as good of PR men as MacArthur had if he wants this gaffe to be thought of as “tactically brilliant.”

Improve every day. (Read it again. It has more meaning than what you first see.)

by K.S.B. on Aug 5, 2011 12:15 AM CDT up reply actions