re: For everyone convinced TAM is coming to the SEC....

I doubt A&M is eager to be seen as UT's bitch.

is the pac 10 going to let texas lunch a network? well i guess they couldn't stop them bc tx is going to run shite

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is the pac 10 going to let texas lunch a network? well i guess they couldn't stop them bc tx is going to run shite

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With the Pac10 Golden Child in the toilet, they need a hero and would probably (my guess) let Texas do what they want in order to get them. As long as the LSN doesn't enter other schools' TV markets, why would they care? From what I've read it will be limited to Texas and other markets east.

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I disagree arrakis

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With what part?

All of it.

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all of it

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Ok, but you don't offer a rebuttal.

Expansion of LSN is on Dodd's list and has been in the planning stage for 2 years.

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Unlike most athletic departments which lose money, Texas is the highest grossing and has all of the resources and the audience to have its own television channel.

Here is what Dodds had to say:

"I always thought that individual institution networks serve institutions better than the conference network. Texas people would rather be able to go to the Texas network and catch all of our sports and all of our events and all of our academic side rather than going to the conference network, where one-twelfth of the inventory will be Texas."

There are always people who want to see more Longhorn sports and this could be the best way to expand it.

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A&M athletic money shortfall

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One thing that should be reassuring to Texas A&M is that in a move to the Pac-10 Texas all but loses its chance to start its own TV network. That was a point of contention for A&M, which has an athletic department $16 million in debt and had to borrow that money from the school's general fund to pay it off.

That became a big rift at A&M between the administration and athletics department and may have contributed to the forced resignation of A&M president Elsa Murano, who wanted the athletic department to be more diligent in paying the loan back.

A&M was not excited about having Texas, with $125 million in revenue and its coffers overflowing, starting a TV network and adding yet another revenue stream that A&M couldn't match.

But with all schools on an equal revenue playing field in the Pac-16 (or whatever we're going to call this league), A&M's worries probably subside.

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With A&M in another conference, the possibility of expanding the LSN gets easier in state. With the SC problems, the Pac10 could be more open to allowing TX to do their thing as long as it doesn't have a direct impact on another school's market.

We'll see how it plays out.

Chip brown has posted tons of driveling crap over the past several years that has either been completely incorrect or never came to fruition.

The fact that people are taking everything this guy has to say as gospel is interesting to say the least.

The poster who mentioned ohw chip brown is just regurgitating what the Texas administration is telling him to say is pretty much spot on. I liked the one how he broke the story on the Texas Legislature "forcing" them to include BAYLOR to the Pac-16 was a good one......funny because the texas state legislature wasnt even in secession and is comprised almost exclusively by A&M and Longhorn alums.....like they give a flying rats tail about Baylor.

Give me a break.

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Ok, but you don't offer a rebuttal.

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nope just disagree

Texas knows if they join the PAC 10 there is no true increase in their level of competition. Oh, what a Pac 16 championship with a USC hobbled by the NCAA for CHEATING? Their lickin' their chops. Texas= vagines just like FSU and Bobby Bowden in 1992.

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So Texas would fore go $125 to join the Pac 16? NFW

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They're not giving up $125M. They would just be giving up any additional that a TV deal of their own would bring in.