Comments on: National and SEC Goodies for Aggie Football & Mack Brown isn’t Big on His Longhorn Network.

By: Ace

Ace — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 02:04:47 +0000

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.

By: Bevo

Bevo — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:05:49 +0000

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.

By: Ace

Ace — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:15:42 +0000

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.

By: Bevo

Bevo — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:14:28 +0000

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.