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Texas Tech Football to Cancel Next Season’s Game Versus Texas State?
It’s very rare to see a game scheduled for an upcoming season cancelled for reasons beyond acts of god. It appears the Texas Tech football team could set a precedent by cancelling their scheduled game for Saturday, September 8th against the Texas State Bobcats in San Marcos. The reason? The Texas Longhorns-focused, ESPN-based Longhorn Network. [...]
TweetTexas Tech Would Reportedly Rather Cancel Football Game Than Appear On Longhorn Network
Texas Tech played complacent with the Longhorn Network as Texas A&M and Missouri cursed it on their exit from the Big 12. But as ESPN begins flexing its broadcast muscles, perhaps in an effort to land the station greater distribution, the Red Raiders are living a Tier 3 television rights nightmare. Texas Tech‘s road game [...]
TweetBig 12 Football Preseason First, Second And Third Teams: Advising Athlon
Each summer, college football preview magazines appear on grocery store shelves and each year, I find myself less enthused. That’s not disappointment at the arrival of amateur pigskin, it’s because so much of the information therein those publications appears daily on the Internet. As the New Orleans Times-Picayune lessens printing to three days per week, [...]
TweetThe Big XII Conference: To expand or not to expand?
For the last several weeks, there have been so many rumors surrounding the possibility of the Big XII potentially adding teams that it is difficult to determine what is fact and what is fiction. Though the conference appeared on the verge of an early death this time last year with the departures and imminent departures [...]
TweetAdding post-season bowl game with SEC a brilliant move by Big XII
This time last season, college football fans and media were writing off the Big XII conference as all but dead and gone. In just two years, the conference lost four schools to other conferences; the Nebraska Cornhuskers ran off to the Big 10 and the Colorado Buffaloes, perhaps afraid of being left out, left for [...]
TweetBig 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby Meets His Makers
New Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby answered the tough questions during his introductory press conference, like whether he was in the bag for Texas. As long as DeLoss Dodds is the athletic director in Austin and the Longhorns continue printing money, there’s always going to be whispers about who runs the show. All the former [...]
TweetTexas Tech Looks To Join Texas, Oklahoma With Television Network
If a Big 12 member school wants to keep up these days, then your institution had better be researching the possibilities of a campus network. Texas and ESPN launched Longhorn Network last summer amid the riches of a $300 million contract and 17 people capable of viewing it. Oklahoma and Fox Sports agreed on a [...]
TweetBig 12 Football Coaches in Bobby Petrino’s Situation
As the college football offseason plods on and most of the South waits for word on Bobby Petrino‘s replacement, it begs the question in Big 12 territory; how entrenched is each head coach? Nothing about the scandal in Fayetteville made me believe it would have cost Petrino his job had he not hired her. That [...]
TweetBig 12 On The Verge Of Massive TV Extension With ESPN
Losing four teams to realignment won’t hinder Big 12 television revenues according to the Sports Business Journal. Due for an extension (in 2016) for their Tier 1 rights, the Big 12 is reportedly nearing an agreement with ESPN/ABC on a 9-year, $1.3 billion extension. Coupled with the recent $1.2 billion deal with Fox for Tier [...]
TweetTexas Tech Football Players Charged With Felony Credit Card Abuse
With the arrival of head coach Tommy Tuberville– in the wake of the departure of popular former head coach Mike Leach– football fans in Lubbock had a reason to be optimistic. With a 2011 5-7 finish (2-7 in Big XII play) expectations have leveled, and the pressure is firmly on the shoulders of Tommy Tuberville. [...]
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