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Out of the six BCS conferences, only the Big East has a worse overall regional TV package than the Pac 10 (The Big 12 is barely better). Thanks to the current economic climate the Pac 10 is looking to add to its revenue stream by starting its own regional network.
According to 2007 Internal Revenue Data, the Pac 10 was trailing the other major conferences in gross receipts (game day revenue) — by a wide margin.
The Big 10 led the way with $177 million in 2007 followed by the ACC ($162 million), the SEC ($149 million) and the Big 12 ($119 million). The Pac 10 reported a little under $88 million in gross receipts for 2007.
How bad is their regional TV pact? The Pac 10 receives approximately $43 million annually from its television deals with Fox, and ABC/ESPN. The Big 10 picked up $66 million from its own network in 2008.
What about the Big 12? Don’t expect a conference regional channel anytime soon.
Texas is finishing out TV production facilities in the north end of DKR Memorial Stadium
UT didn’t put TV and radio production facilities in the north of of the stadium just to help out a Big 12 Regional Network. At some point the Longhorn Channel could become a reality.
As might be expected the SEC was proactive and cemented their regional TV future for the next 15 years.
All the SEC had to do was casually mention that it was thinking about starting its own channel, and their network partners jumped in with buckets of money.
The SEC recently signed a pact with ESPN that will bring in $2.25 billion to the conference over the next 15 years. Combined with a renewal of their CBS contract, that means that the SEC will bring in $205 million a year in TV revenue.
It’s not just the increased revenue stream that is important for the SEC. They are now the crown jewel in the WWL brand for college athletics. Get used to being inundated with promos for “The SEC on ESPN,”
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GoHornsGo90 commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 58 minutes ago
Barnes’ three “strengths”:
Defense, rebounding, recruiting.
This team just proved the first two are non-existent (out-rebounded by 25; fucking KIDDING me?) and the last one is over-hyped as well. Every ESPN basketball recruiting analyst who actually had Bradley ahead of Wall should be taken out back and executed Inglourious Basterds style.
I hate Turgeon and I
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skymonkeyhorn commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 42 minutes ago
a Good System will usually beat a talented team that does not play together and are thinking instead of playing basketball ,over a season the system wins more then they will give away.
A team that is scared to make a mistake and thinks before they react is going to lose to a confident but -
Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 16 minutes ago
Nordberg,
Ironic indeed……teachable moment, I guess….
NY Horn,
I hope your drunk, because Izzo ain’t coming to Texas……Why don’t we just get Coach K. I mean Coach G came from Duke, they have to be dying to get out of Durham….
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 20 minutes ago
Egg, that’s fine, but at what point do you blame Barnes? Seriously, man. You’ve thrown players under the bus left and right, but at a certain point, doesn’t the buck stop somewhere. I know you’re more of an NBA guy so it begins and ends with players there, but we need fucking
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 20 minutes ago
Egg, that’s fine, but at what point do you blame Barnes? Seriously, man. You’ve thrown players under the bus left and right, but at a certain point, doesn’t the buck stop somewhere. I know you’re more of an NBA guy so it begins and ends with players there, but we need fucking
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 21 minutes ago
Trips,
I hear ya. I’m frustrated as well. I guess I just don’t prescribe to such a black and white characterization of the situation. I do know that no matter what happened in the huddle, JCB made a dumb play. If Rick didn’t explain or remind him of the situation, then I
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 29 minutes ago
Pat, know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as a fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit that’s
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 29 minutes ago
Pat, you know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as a fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 29 minutes ago
Pat, you know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit that’s
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 32 minutes ago
Shitty season…..Rick needs to hire some offensive help and someone needs to say it to him. Deloss?
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 34 minutes ago
Trips,
Do you know that he didn’t? JCB has made bad decision all season, why would this be any different. Barnes coached a shitastic game, but on the teams I was the best FT shooter, I never game up the ball unless it was an uncontested layup…..It’s not hard and it doesn’t take a
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 34 minutes ago
mcpayne, yes, you don’t leave that shit to chance. You don’t let your guys break the huddle or dead ball not knowing precisely what’s expected from them. Barnes doesn’t get 2 mil for coaching PE where he’s hoping the right guy gets fouled.
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 36 minutes ago
mpayne, I’d agree with you if J’Covan had been playing all season and had been in situations to make that decision. Like, you know, against Baylor, when he played all of 3 fucking minutes thanks to rick.
So yes, it is rick’s fault.
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 36 minutes ago
With 15 seconds left, out of a dead ball, most coaches would make it perfectly clear who they wanted to be fouled.
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 39 minutes ago
Stupid decisions by Brown are one of the reasons he sat on the bench for most of the season…lack of coaching maybe, or just a lack of basketball IQ?
Oh well, if Brown doesn’t go off in the 2nd half, we aren’t even playing in OT. Too bad he didn’t get much of a chance
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 40 minutes ago
Pat, if you were making 2 million a year, would you leave that up to chance?
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 40 minutes ago
Actually, if your a PG and the best FT shooter on the team and played basketball your entire life, you’d pretty much know not to give up the ball if you had any brains…..Such a dumb play…..
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D W commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 42 minutes ago
Oh, and a stupid decision by Brown in giving up the ball to Johnson.
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 42 minutes ago
Be nice if we’d coached our 90 percent foul shooter not to give the ball up.
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 42 minutes ago
Ransom,
1 for 2, that was not shitty defense……
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Mister Mike commented on the blog post State of the Union – NU Basketball, Part 1 (or Why We Are Where We Are) 3 hours, 42 minutes ago
Well if you had read it all the way, you would’ve noticed this little tidbit:
In the second part I’ll do my best to give an outline of what exactly is wrong with the program, what we can do to fix it, and then what will probably happen TO fix it.
So to answer your question:
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 42 minutes ago
The line kills us, as it should have.
Fuck Rick Barnes, as this was the worst coaching I have seen in all my years of watching UT sports.
This saved us from Kentucky, but I feel bad for Damo, he was a hell of a Longhorn.
Hook ‘em!
And FUCK RICK BARNES!
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 42 minutes ago
Feel bad for Damion…..Dexter and Mason, not so much….
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D W commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 42 minutes ago
So the season ends with missed free throws and shitty defense by Bradley. Pretty fitting.
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 43 minutes ago
Yup……We knew that FTs would get us….
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 44 minutes ago
F’n Gary’s been awful tonight….
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 44 minutes ago
GJ at the line…big heart needed!
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 45 minutes ago
Why does Brown give it up there?
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 45 minutes ago
Bilas explaining why we’re not a smart team…Oh good, I want Gary at the line…
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 3 hours, 45 minutes ago
The good news is that now I know to fill out the census, so i’m not going to jail…not for that anyway.
Facebook User said:
May 15th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
It’s not just the increased revenue stream that is important for the SEC. They are now the crown jewel in the WWL brand for college athletics. Get used to being inundated with promos for “The SEC on ESPN,”
Will USC be sad?
TaylorTRoom said:
May 15th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Maybe, in the spirit of conference unity, UT will share some of its facilities, programming, and revenue streams with the rest of the Big 12?
srr50 said:
May 15th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Maybe, in the spirit of conference unity, UT will share some of its facilities, programming, and revenue streams with the rest of the Big 12?
Sure.
About the same time Mike Leach starts running the Wishbone.
TaylorTRoom said:
May 16th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
How much does the Big 12 get from its non-ABC contract? Per the linked story, CU got $5.7 million last year from football, and $2 million from basketball. They said the Big 12 distributed $113 million overall. How does that compare to the Big 10’s contracts- their ABC cut, and their $66 million from their network? Basically, I’m asking where the conference is with respect to its peers.
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_9352442
anonymous said:
May 16th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
This would be a good time for the Pac Ten to realize how much more marketable their conference would be if they cannibalized the biggest schools in the big 12 south and cut some of their lesser lights.
gravitational pull said:
May 16th, 2009 at 2:45 pm
With all this money potentially floating around, how about we just drop all the talk about comparable peer institutions and just go and join the SEC, along with OU and A&M, and turn that conference into the first super conference, a conference with no more gimme games.
Either that or UT could isolate itself and attempt to steer as much of the Big12 money it generates back to itself, as it is doing now, but, in the near future, it maybe doing so in a conference which maybe on its last legs and which may come to lack the ability to generate true fan interest in the coming new age of media saturated, overhyped college ball.
The other options don’t seem to be much better. Both the B10 and the PAC10 are just too damn far away and in the B10’s case, it is also too damn cold and it’s girls are, in general, too damn ugly for it to be conference I’d ever want to be apart of. If I want to go see ugly ass, masculine looking cheerleaders who look like the type of girls who don’t bother to shave their armpits, then I can just go home to the wife, or go hang out near a philosophy department on some campus. I sure as hell on don’t need to be seeing any of them while I’m sitting back, attempting to relax, and trying to enjoy my favorite past time in the fall. Compared to the kind of cheerleaders typical of the B10, I’d almost rather see Aggie milk men yell leaders. At least they always manage to give me a chuckle or two.
TaylorTRoom said:
May 16th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
I’m trying to figure out where the value is in UT Bevo-D broadcasting that the Big 12 wouldn’t own if they set up their own network. If a Big 12 network were started, wouldn’t they automatically own UT girls volleyball games, for example?
Does UT own the broadcasts of pre-Big 12 games?
srr50 said:
May 16th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
I’m trying to figure out where the value is in UT Bevo-D broadcasting that the Big 12 wouldn’t own if they set up their own network. If a Big 12 network were started, wouldn’t they automatically own UT girls volleyball games, for example?
The idea of a Big 12 Network isn’t getting off the ground right now. The Big 10 had the strongest base of any conference (in terms of potential sets of eyes in front of the television)and they had a very hard time getting clearances to begin with. They are doing fine now, but the Big 12 would have an even tougher time getting cable system clearances out of market.
I don’t know if there is anything written in the Big 12 bylaws about ownership of games when it comes to a regional network. I do know that Texas has done its homework, and they believe that they are one of a handful of schools that could make a school channel viable.
In order to work it would have to be offered on a basic tier and would have to be at about the price of BEVO-D (with a ceiling probably of $9.95 a month).
Obviously the number of live events in football would be next to nothing — but the school would have replay rights with our current vendors.
Basketball is a little different. ESPN essentially controls the Big 12 broadcast rights, and they get to pick a total of 95 games over the year to control
The basic breakdown is:
ESPN, ESPN2, ABC, CBS 43 games
ESPNU, ESPN360.com 20 games
Big 12 Network 32 games
Each Big 12 school retains the media rights to all men’s basketball games not selected for telecast by ESPN. These are already marketed through ESPN but could easily be taken over by the school. They could be packaged with the coaches’ shows as well as internet and radio rights for a multi-tier sponsorship.
UT obviously would have a deeper selection for baseball and women’s basketball.
I think that the concept behind a Longhorn Channel would be built around a few live events from the major sports, various live events from the other sports, and then a boatload of “insider” material — coaches’ shows, features on players, repeats from the archive of great games in the past, etc.
The key of course is keeping the price point at a reasonable rate for a first tier cable or satellite system.