LHN caves on high school content

[Horn_in_Toronto]

According to Chip Brown tweet about half and hour ago.

Texas has agreed to have NO high school content on the LHN, not even high lights approved by the NCAA.

Says Chuck Neinas gave Texas 24 hours to consider Tier 3 concessions.

No high school content for the next 6 years, and a granting of Tier1/2 rights to the conference for 6 years as well.

And RIP Steve Jobs! You will be sorely missed, along with your vision and relentless drive for perfection.

Texas did not want to limit LHN programming and grant rights to the conference for longer than that.

The hope is that Mizzou reacts favorably by joining the agreement, and staying put.

I think the first step in the LHN turning into a full fledged conference network has been taken. I figure keeping it the LHN for 2-4 years gives Texas face saving way to then turn it into a conference network, as Texas can then claim that its own investment in the network has been recovered.

And RIP Steve Jobs. You will be sorely missed, along with your vision and relentless drive for perfection.

 

[atxbomber]

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[horn4jc]

I think this was a resonable concession. This is the Longhorn Network not the high school football network.

Okay Missouri. Your coach got what he wanted. Now, will you please get off the ledge and stop prostituting yourself?

 

[TheGallopinGoose]

Okay. Losing high school games or highlights is not a big deal. But if you really want to see those high school games so bad, there are plenty of ESPN channels: just show the games you were going to show on the LHN on another ESPN channel instead.

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[majorwhiteapples]

I think the UIL will sue. Their product is being limited. I see this bubbling up from the HS level.

 

[Das Mook]

I am getting the feeling that we will be "forced" to go indy after Mizzou leaves and the conference just implodes.

 

[reyhorn]

No big deal. ESPN will simply sidestep this by showing the games with the highest prospective recruits for Texas like they did a few weeks back and no one can do anything about it.