Not Everything Turns To Gold For Texas Longhorns

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Not Everything Turns To Gold For Texas Longhorns
On Friday, ESPN's The Longhorn Network will debut. It's all Texas all the time and the money associated with the deal and the fear that it could cause them to leave the Big 12, has forced Texas A & M to look east and consider joining the SEC.

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Let's start with the Longhorn Network, which launches Friday, but has no carriers. Texas will receive $10.98 million a year and receive guaranteed three percent bumps through the life of the contract.

But Texas will only receive the truly big bucks — equal to 70 percent of the net revenue — after ESPN nets $295 million on the project. That might never happen. Carriers will surely come, but at what price will they accept a deal? And how many Longhorn fans will push their local carriers to get something done with one football game and eight men's basketball games? ESPN officials did not immediately respond to comment.

Then there's the issue with ticket prices. Texas is charging $70 for the Rice game, $75 for Kansas and Kansas State, $85 Oklahoma State & BYU and $95 for Texas Tech. Coming off a horrible 5-7 year, it appears like there's a glut in the marketplace for the non-marquee games and fans easily see that now that StubHub is the official secondary ticketing site of the Longhorns.

With hundreds of tickets under $50 for the Rice game, Texas sent out an e-mail to its season ticket holders this week offering half-price seats on its non-marquee games. Some of those seats are in areas where people have paid a donation on top of the face value, showing just how overpriced some of its tickets are.
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Breaks my heart to see Texass struggling to sell tickets to home games. Remember when Nebraska had to resort to half-price tickets to fill Memorial Stadium?

Yeah. Me neither.

 
That's why I don't see the big threat about texas' independence. They're egotistical and think they're the greatest but rarley back up all their talk.

 
I would love to see the Whorns go 5-7 again. Then have aTm takeover as the marquee team in state of Tejas. And I don't even care for aTm that much.

 
Texas fans are just like California fans. They go with whoever is winning and become their fans. If USC is down and UCLA is up everyone in Cal is suddenly UCLA lifelong fans. In Texas they just change tshirts to match the team that is actually winning be it Texas, aTm, Cowboys or the Houston Texans. I would love to see Texas have another losing season and continue down that trek of losing week in and week out. This would really show ESPN at the same time to stick with conferences and not some team full of pole smokers.

 
matthew_m_g said:
irafreak said:
That's why I don't see the big threat about texas' independence. They're egotistical and think they're the greatest but rarley back up all their talk.
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Try telling that to their ego, IRAFreak. :)
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All I get from them is a..."huh huh we're texas"

 
NUance said:
I would love to see the Whorns go 5-7 again. Then have aTm takeover as the marquee team in state of Tejas. And I don't even care for aTm that much.
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Wouldn't the marquee team in Texas already be TCU?

 
NUance said:
I would love to see the Whorns go 5-7 again. Then have aTm takeover as the marquee team in state of Tejas. And I don't even care for aTm that much.
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I'd love to see them go 0-12!!!!!!!!! that would be hilarious.

 
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