Stevie Clark back to D1

Hello, I'm Sooner04, and I have DirecTV.

I also could not care less about Stevie Clark.
 
He finally gets his chance at OU ... from the article ... how ironic ...

. . . He'll have two years of eligibility and has to start OU classes this summer.

. . . officials told Clark that they know his past, but when he gets to OU, he's "moving forward ... another chapter."
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Thanks for posting the article. I went and saw him play in high school several times while OU was recruiting him. At the time, I thought he was a talented player that would be fun to watch in crimson and cream. I hope the young man succeeds in life. Because of his basketball talent, he is being given every opportunity. He needs to make the most of it. It will be interesting to see if he does.
 
Sooner04 said:
Hello, I'm Sooner04, and I have DirecTV.

I also could not care less about Stevie Clark.
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I used to have DirecTV, but I cut the cord. Now I have:

HD Antenna for local channels
Amazon Prime/Instant Video
Netflix
Hulu Plus

Total cost: $15 per month, because I bum Netflix from a friend. :)
 
thebigabd said:
I used to have DirecTV, but I cut the cord. Now I have:

HD Antenna for local channels
Amazon Prime/Instant Video
Netflix
Hulu Plus

Total cost: $15 per month, because I bum Netflix from a friend. :)
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what do you do for sports?
 
SoonerBounce13 said:
what do you do for sports?
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I get NBC, ABC, FOX, and CBS in HD for free with my HD Antenna. So, that covers many sporting events.

Outside of that, I use a "Watch ESPN" app on my Amazon Fire TV, but I have to use my mother-in-law's cable subscription (one time thing) to use it. So, if I didn't have that, I wouldn't be able to watch anything on ESPN.

I have MORE TV options now, but sports is always the tough part for cord cutters. However, Sling TV is only $20.00 a month and gives a ton of cable channels. I don't do it though.

I am going through a phase of my life where I am trying to watch less TV. So it's not that important to me. Sometimes I just track the score online or on my phone, and don't necessarily feel the need to watch every second of it. If we are talking The Masters, I have to watch. If we are talking OU vs. Kansas State, I can track it online and watch the highlights. I still get plenty of OU games though.

Golf/exercise more, watch TV less.

You will gain a lot by cord cutting, and save a lot of money, but you have to sacrifice something. Can't have everything for $15 per month.
 
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thebigabd said:
I get NBC, ABC, FOX, and CBS in HD for free with my HD Antenna. So, that covers many sporting events.

Outside of that, I use a "Watch ESPN" app on my Amazon Fire TV, but I have to use my mother-in-law's cable subscription (one time thing) to use it. So, if I didn't have that, I wouldn't be able to watch anything on ESPN.

I have MORE TV options now, but sports is always the tough part for cord cutters. However, Sling TV is only $20.00 a month and gives a ton of cable channels. I don't do it though.

I am going through a phase of my life where I am trying to watch less TV. So it's not that important to me. Sometimes I just track the score online or on my phone, and don't necessarily feel the need to watch every second of it. If we are talking The Masters, I have to watch. If we are talking OU vs. Kansas State, I can track it online and watch the highlights. I still get plenty of OU games though.

Golf/exercise more, watch TV less.

You will gain a lot by cord cutting, and save a lot of money, but you have to sacrifice something. Can't have everything for $15 per month.
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I would really like to do what you've done, but I just haven't been able to pull the trigger. I can't bear the thought of not being able to watch my Sooners if they're being televised somewhere, no matter what the sport.
 
scrybe said:
I would really like to do what you've done, but I just haven't been able to pull the trigger. I can't bear the thought of not being able to watch my Sooners if they're being televised somewhere, no matter what the sport.
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You get over it... I used to watch Golf Channel like 24/7 and didn't think I could go without it... One week after cutting the cord I didn't care about it at all.

It's amazing how well you adjust to it. Other cord cutters I know have similar stories, about how they couldn't go without this or that, and not one of us has any regrets about cutting the cord.
 
thebigabd said:
I get NBC, ABC, FOX, and CBS in HD for free with my HD Antenna. So, that covers many sporting events.

Outside of that, I use a "Watch ESPN" app on my Amazon Fire TV, but I have to use my mother-in-law's cable subscription (one time thing) to use it. So, if I didn't have that, I wouldn't be able to watch anything on ESPN.

I have MORE TV options now, but sports is always the tough part for cord cutters. However, Sling TV is only $20.00 a month and gives a ton of cable channels. I don't do it though.

I am going through a phase of my life where I am trying to watch less TV. So it's not that important to me. Sometimes I just track the score online or on my phone, and don't necessarily feel the need to watch every second of it. If we are talking The Masters, I have to watch. If we are talking OU vs. Kansas State, I can track it online and watch the highlights. I still get plenty of OU games though.

Golf/exercise more, watch TV less.

You will gain a lot by cord cutting, and save a lot of money, but you have to sacrifice something. Can't have everything for $15 per month.
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There is also Vue. The Vue packages are a little more expensive than Sling, but they include a ton of channels, including the ESPN and FS networks, and cloud DVR.

I haven't cut the cord yet, but I've looked into it. As long as I have access to live sports, I can live without the other stuff. The money-saving aspect of cord-cutting is appealing, but more than anything I lament the amount of time that I waste on cable. I find myself engaging in a lot of mindless TV watching (i.e. reruns of old shows to which I barely pay attention while "watching"). It detracts me from other pursuits, such as reading.
 
Smash Williams said:
As long as I have access to live sports, I can live without the other stuff.
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I could do away with just about everything but sports.

My wife watches HGTV and TLC a lot but I think she could get over that. Other than that, we watch some HBO shows, local channels, and sports
 
But the problem with satellite and cable, you can't just purchase sports packages, you've also got to buy a bunch of those other channels. Ala carte is a great concept, but it's virtually nonexistent in cable/satellite.
 
scrybe said:
But the problem with satellite and cable, you can't just purchase sports packages, you've also got to buy a bunch of those other channels. Ala carte is a great concept, but it's virtually nonexistent in cable/satellite.
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And that's why Cable/Satellite providers are losing about 35,000 customers every month... It's a dead industry unless they pull something out of their ass.

In 1994 it seemed like Blockbuster was a great business model, and then Netflix/internet/streaming killed it... Fast forward to 2016, and paying $150 a month for 700 channels when you only watch 6 of them is turning out to be bad business, and once again the internet is providing an alternative.

Nobody will have cable/satellite in 10 years. The online options (Vue, Sling, etc) are coming all the time, and more and more content is being added to Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, etc.

The HD Antenna solves the problem of local channels.

However, I suspect the cable companies will just start charging double for internet to make up the costs, and they will cite people streaming videos as the reason to pay for more bandwidth... That will work until Google Fiber takes over and eliminates the cable companies all together. Once Google Fiber is in your city, you will have absolutely no need for the Cable Company.
 
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