Oklahoma, Texas A&M may look at moving to SEC

[boksooner]

I still can't figure out why they were blindsided by this. It sounds like something Texas would do reguardless of rules. There is no way it's legal to have a network with your universities name to play high school football games. It's like playing high school football games of unsigned players on an official web page It's illegal.

The funniest part is that the head of the LHN may have already committed two minor NCAA violations by mentioning two recruits by name in an interview. This seems like a minefield of NCAA compliance issues for UT. Are the announcers/reporters considered representatives of UT or ESPN? Their allowable contact with vary greatly by the answer to that question.

 

[stoops4pres]

The funniest part is that the head of the LHN may have already committed two minor NCAA violations by mentioning two recruits by name in an interview. This seems like a minefield of NCAA compliance issues for UT. Are the announcers/reporters considered representatives of UT or ESPN? Their allowable contact with vary greatly by the answer to that question.

That's the big conundrum. Because the guy you are talking about that committed those minor violations I believe was an "ESPN representative", but the way he was talking about the high school players (especially Texas commit Jonathan Gray) you'd think he was affiliated with Texas.

 

[boksooner]

That's the big conundrum. Because the guy you are talking about that committed those minor violations I believe was an "ESPN representative", but the way he was talking about the high school players (especially Texas commit Jonathan Gray) you'd think he was affiliated with Texas.

He is an employee of ESPN that is also the head of the Longhorn Network. How can you truly severe that relationship from a compliance stand point? I don't think you can. I, honestly, do not see how they can show high school sports on the LHN without violated NCAA rules.

 

[stoops4pres]

He is an employee of ESPN that is also the head of the Longhorn Network. How can you truly severe that relationship from a compliance stand point? I don't think you can. I, honestly, do not see how they can show high school sports on the LHN without violated NCAA rules.

I don't think it can be done either. Like I said, the way he was talking about Jonathan Gray you would've thought he was a Texas fan. Hard to differentiate between an objective ESPN employee and a partial employee to Texas in that scenario.

If somehow Texas does manage to get away with televising these high school games (especially out-of-state), it will just be another example of the NCAA's hypocrisy.

 

[CzechM8]

Yeah beebe sure thought this all out before he decided to let OU and texas have their own television networks...

what a clown he is.

 

[oSuJeff97]

Yeah beebe sure thought this all out before he decided to let OU and texas have their own television networks...

what a clown he is.

Well it seems like a real simple fix is:

(A) Yes - you can create your own network

(B) No - you can't air high school games on said network

Done and done.

 

[DenverSooner]

I agree with all of this.

Ideally, the Big 12 should be the league expanding and adding new markets, not ditching to join someone elses party. There is a lot of tradition in this league, lots of rivalries, and I would hate to see it disbanded.

Add BYU, Memphis, and New Mexico to the Big 12 North.

Add South Florida, Central Florida, and TCU to the Big 12 South.

That is actually one of the better proposals I have seen. This would add several TV markets. I am not a huge fan of TCU because I don't think it adds much in the way of TV revenue and I don't think TCU can sustain its success playing OU, Texas, A&M, OSU and Tech but right now they are producing a really good product.

 

[boksooner]

Well it seems like a real simple fix is:

(A) Yes - you can create your own network

(B) No - you can't air high school games on said network

Done and done.

It is if you can't get UT's weenis out of your mouth long enough to confront them.

 

[oSuJeff97]

It is if you can't get UT's weenis out of your mouth long enough to confront them.

Touche.

 

[BoulderSooner]

He is an employee of ESPN that is also the head of the Longhorn Network. How can you truly severe that relationship from a compliance stand point? I don't think you can. I, honestly, do not see how they can show high school sports on the LHN without violated NCAA rules.

its easy ... UT doesn't own the LHN espn does .. just like espnu .. they bought media rights from UT .. but they own and run the network .. they sell the adds they have the risk ...

 

[boksooner]

its easy ... UT doesn't own the LHN espn does .. just like espnu .. they bought media rights from UT .. but they own and run the network .. they sell the adds they have the risk ...

It is branded as an affiliate of UT, therefore it is a de facto representative of the university, even if UT doesn't own it. A high school player is not going to be able to distinguish between the school and the network. The only thing that will matter from an NCAA perspective is whether the LHN and its employee act as representatives of UT, and if so, how should their contact with recruits be governed.


And this isn't just about UT. The Big 10 Network and BYUtv are very interested on how the NCAA comes down on this.

 

[NickZepp]

If the NCAA allows this Notre Dame will be able to use NBC as a recruiting tool, All the big schools will be using their websites and create networks just to be recruiting tools not to action broadcast school events.

 

[CzechM8]

If the NCAA allows this Notre Dame will be able to use NBC as a recruiting tool, All the big schools will be using their websites and create networks just to be recruiting tools not to action broadcast school events.

Except that no other conference commissioner is as dumb or desperate as beebe so they won't allow individial schools to have their own networks....

 

[NickZepp]

Except that no other conference commissioner is as dumb or desperate as beebe so they won't allow individial schools to have their own networks....

Well then major schools would go independent for a recruiting advantage. Notre Dame and BYU can't really have as big an advantage because it's not as easy to get to those schools. But if a Texas decides to go indy just so it can have a recruiting TV network it would do it in a second.