National and SEC Goodies for Aggie Football & Mack Brown isn’t Big on His Longhorn Network.
Sports Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012The nation’s leader in sacks and tackles for loss Damontre Moore of Texas A&M was named Southeastern Conference Defensive Lineman of the Week on Monday for his strong play against No. 6 LSU. Moore, Even after getting pretty banged up Saturday. The junior defensive end from Rowlett High School, produced a team-high 10 tackles,while also contributing a sack, two tackles for loss, a broken up pass and a quarterback pressure…It was Moore’s second weekly SEC honor after being named Co-DL of the Week for his play in the season-opener against Florida.
Texas A&M redshirt freshman Johnny Manziel was named one of 16 semifinalists for the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award on Monday. Narrowed down from all 124 starting quarterbacks from NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision schools, semifinalists were selected by the Davey O’Brien National Selection Committee, with the Fan Vote accounting for five percent of the total vote. The committee was asked to consider the following criteria: quarterback skills, athletic ability, academics, character, leadership and sportsmanship.
Texas coach Mack Brown once welcomed the Longhorn Network. Now he sounds like he’d rather do without it. Brown complained Monday about his weekly time commitment to produce three shows, the network’s access to practice and the tips opposing coaches may get from watching it. Brown says he “didn’t ask for” the network, the school’s 20-year collaboration with ESPN that pays Texas $300 million. Brown says he wants to sit down with network and school officials to address his concerns. The network shows the first 30 minutes of daily drills and some of the conversations coaches. Brown says a Texas staff member monitors the network to make sure not too much is revealed.
Barry Sanders knows his trading cards are bought and sold every day. When the Hall of Fame running back learned that a Houston couple desperate to have a baby was auctioning off one of his most rare cards to fund one last attempt at in vitro fertilization, he was stunned. The former Detroit Lions star is helping spread the word about the sale of the card signed by both he and Walter Payton so Todd and Ula Nelkin can raise $20,000.00 Sanders tells The Associated Press it would be “very, very special” if his card helped the Nelkins have a baby. Todd Nelkin says: “I would love to keep the card, but I would rather have a kid.’
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Well, t sips in pursuirt of the almighty dollar have sold their souls and it is coming back to bite them. I hope Mack Brown quits in disgust. Not that I dislike Mack Brown, he is a great coach. But, the greedy alumni who sold all the things that made t sip land bearable should be ashamed of their blatant greed. But, they won’t. let it bother them because they don’t love their school, only the money they can make off of it.
Exactly how is it “coming back to bite them”? What coach would not complain about the requirement to produce 3 shows a week during the season? It does not surprise me that he wants to make some changes to his schedule after doing this for only one year. What role do you think the “greedy alumni” play in this? The alumni do not get a voice in how the athletic department is managed, and when it produces profits, I can assure you that they are not shared with the alumni.
I doubt that any organization that is creative enough to produce an incremental $15 million per year with does it with no problems along the way that have to be worked through.
Ace, the athletic department is funded primarily by alumni donations, That’s why a school with a high number of affluent alums, like tu, has such impressive facilities. That’s why Mack Brown is paid 5 mil/yr. He is NOT paid by the Texas taxpayer. The Longhorn Network is privately funded by wealthy alumni as a money making exercise. And they are the ones making the demands on Brown. Therefore, it seems to me to be coming back to bite them because they are interfering with the running of the team, which should be the coach’s primary focus. ?Not making videos for the Longhorn Network. But hey, if it causes problems for tu and they don’t perform as well as they could because of this distraction, no sweat of my brow. Gig ‘em.
Faux Bevo-
Thank you for the tutorial on how athletic departments at all colleges and universities are funded.
Getting back to the original topic, you are absolutely wrong about how the Longhorn Network is funded. The Longhorn Network is 100% funded by ESPN. Not one red cent of alumni money went into the funding of the Longhorn Network, it is a deal between the university and ESPN. The only way any alumni will make any money off this deal is by being shareholders of Disney, who as I am sure you know, owns ESPN.
So you don’t really think that rich alumni are paying UT $15 million per year for access to the athletic department, so they can produce the Longhorn Network, yet somehow get it carried by ESPN do you? I bet you don’t really believe that these same rich alumni would then have access to the football coach and somehow call the shots on how he runs the program, do you?
Do you also think that their football program is in shambles? UT is ranked 23 and A&M is ranked 20 in this weeks BCS standings and the two teams that beat Texas are ranked higher than A&M. A&M’s higher ranking is due in part to losing to two higher ranked opponents than the two teams that beat Texas.