Yea, it'll be closed down. My joke is ESPN will rebrand it the SEC West Network, leave it in Austin, and have it cover all the West division schools like LSU, Arkansas, Texas, and to the delight of aggy, Texas A&M.
It's become mostly unwatchable, anyway. I only hang on to it up here and pay a premium to see how the new season pans out. The pressers etc are good, though it is way over the top how many times they replay them. Does anyone not have DVR?
Yeah I'm hoping the 3rd tier games of ours just move over to the SEC Network. LHN is a disaster for everything other than All-Access and the random baseball or volleyball game.
I will miss the baseball coverage, especially the Tuesday night games. Greg Swindell and Keith Moreland were awesome.
They had a chance each semester to let every professor have an hour lecture on there, but instead it's the 127th replay of an event from 2015. Surely with 14 current teams, the SEC Network doesn't have many re-airings, do they?
I'm not paying for a sports network to listen to "professors" talk or any other BS that should be on West Mall.
Wish you had had the opportunity to sit through a lecture of H Wayne Morgan. Dr Morgan was a riot, and drove the liberals screaming out of the lecture hall. Find an American history book written by a Harvard professor(s), and invariably it will be edited by H Wayne Morgan. Always impeccably attired, with a perfect dimple in his tie. I'm sure today's administration would never allowed his lectures on LHN, but they would be a good comedy hour.
After a day at the office I enjoyed kicking off my shoes, sitting back and watching the Horns beat OU, A&M, USC and Georgia and Arkansas over and over and over my only regret is that they spent so much time covering the game when we played the Utes in the Alamo Bowl. The Ute Poms were the best in the history of the cosmos
It should be the Longhorn Network not the Longhorn sports Network. Guessing you didn't have many business classes, where the objective was maximize profits.
No, I didn't take any business classes, but I do get that part, thanks. Are they maximizing profits by showing political BS on that channel? If so, I don't care, I tune out.
Then there are those of us that had Little Willie Cunningham for marketing and learned only that they guys making the most noise on TV make money - Jim McIngvale, Oscar Snowden, Art Grincle
No, because they don't have any. My point is some non-sports programming would be better than the 124th airing of the students who biked Austin to Anchorage.
Yes, they do have non sports programming. That's what I am talking about. Which network are you talking about? Look, I didn't even have to scroll 2 hours ahead to find non sports programming. Hey, I always tune in to see films from the RTF Department.
Texas has sucked for a decade. There just aren't very many good games to show ad nauseam that aren't, for example, 2008 Texas-OU.
The story of the students who bike from Austin to Anchorage is the definition of non-sports programming. Also Longhorn Film Showcase LBJ Presents And I am sure I am missing a couple of others. Now, if your contention is that LHN is just mailing it in these days, I am right there with you. But you cannot say they are all sports programming all the time.
HIC, How can you think that "LBJ Presents" is horrendous. It is a multi-cultural, multiple college credit class. Courses like: 1) How to bully the media and make them like it 2) How to judge a man by what he drinks 3) Maximizing cemetery voter registration 4) Tracing really old headstones onto paper to get the registration correct 5) Why George Parr should have a statue on Capitol grounds 6) Marrying for money and enjoying it 7 How to keep your girlfriend's husband happily employed 8 Insuring silence of your secret service detail without violence 9) What is Secret Service code name "Hummer" referred to.
Reminds me of the public access channels shown on cable in Austin in the 1990’s. I remember one about nudist camps shown late at night.
Yes, that's the contention. Sorry I left off the word 'new'. Airing something from 2015 in 2021 isn't enough to qualify as non-sports programming for me. LHN needs consistent new non-sports programming. I bet more people watched the Film Showcase (if it was new) than the 123rd re-aring of Texas 4000.
LHN has been great for us baseball fans but with ESPN+ now showing pretty much everyone's baseball games the need for LHN has gone down substantially.
