re: Longhorns have GOT to be asking themselves....

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I don't expect anyone to get a payday like the horns did in the future especially since they are realizing that the value isn't there without more content.

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In my reading of the tea leaves (i.e. the internet), I think the content is there but a couple factors are working against the LHN being picked up:

1. Asking price of ESPN (rumored at $0.40 a subscriber or something like that) is too high for the carriers. That's on ESPN - why not get it on as a bargain and renegotiate it up later?
2. The possible shift to a la carte subscription services.
3. The upcoming DirecTV - ESPN end of contract in December. If you're DirectTV, why do something now...why not just wait. I get that. And DirecTV seems like a domino that has to fall for the LHN to pick up steam. IMHO.

Not really sure if one or all of these factors are the main problem - and you're right, it could be a content issue as well. Picking up UTSA games, Friday Night Lights, could suggest this is the problem.

You must not talk to that many people. I don't know anyone who wants them in our conference. frick Texas.

Hell I didn't want a&m in it either.

There is no way...I repeat...NO WAY Texas would EVER come to the SEC. Texas has always and will always want to rule whatever conference they are in. As far as the SEC wanting them-there is a reason two conferences have gone to the way side because of those pricks.

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Again, you must only talk to people that reach conclusions based on emotions...notice the

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Ok.

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If the conference is going to expand, you want the best competition along with the best TV ratings possible. There is not a single school in the nation that could bring to the table what Texas can (that is not already in a solidified conference).

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Texas has proven time and time again to be a conference killer. Why would you want that cancer in your conference?

Also, like Texas a&m, they don't really fit into the conference's culture.

This is a moot point anyway. They won't want equal revenue sharing, so we don't want them.

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They won't want equal revenue sharing, so we don't want them.

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They just agreed to equal revenue sharing in the Big 12.

They still have the longhorn network right?

I would be ecstatic if Texas was in the SEC, from a fan's perspective it would be great. But I agree (maybe not for same reasons as Arkansas fans) that it won't happen.

I do think the Big 12 had poor leadership - if that let Texas use its power improperly then shame on us but also shame on the conference. However, each team gets 1 vote and 1 vote only (by the president)....so issues that only Texas favored to the detriment of other schools (especially the smaller schools) should have been decided against Texas.

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I've read it - can you point me to the clause that allows ESPN to suspend the network without paying its monetary obligations under the contract (i.e., in clause 10a)? Not saying it's not there, just don't remember seeing it written that way.

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I don't even play a lawyer on the internet, but 14c.

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They still have the longhorn network right?

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That's third tier rights. LSU makes money on their third tier rights that are not shared. As do many other teams in the SEC and around the country.

Should LSU and Alabama start sharing their ticket revenue with Vanderbilt? No conference has completely equal revenue sharing.

I'm not disagreeing with you concerning this, but ask yourself this.... would any school from the SEC, PAC, or B1G leave to join the new Big 12? No. However, the major schools in your conference ARE leaving.