re: So How Bad Did the LHN Hurt Texas?

I think it has hurt their national brand and image more than anything. Before LHN, most people nationally had a favorable image of Texas football. Most of us cheered for them against USC, liked their cowgirl cheerleaders, and loved Austin. Deservedly or not, the LHN turned Texas into a bully and as a national symbol for everything wrong with college sports. If you polled America and asked what single event caused conference realignment, the vast majority would say the LHN.

In fact, I recently read an article about the failure of the LHN, and it stated that unlike the Big Ten network where customers forced cable companies to broadcast it, the LHN has had the opposite effect. People are calling cable companies all across America letting them know they will drop them if they add the LHN and force them to pay for it. National people like me wanted the Big Ten network to see a variety of games. No one outside of Texas wants to pay for a network that promotes only one university and a university that now has such a terrible image.

Bottom line.....the nation hates the LHN and therefore, the nation hates Texas football. Huge mistake by UT and an even bigger mistake by ESPN.