🏈 A reminder in all of this NIL talk. The Birmingham TV market has been #1 for 12 straight years for college football.

[TerryP]

The same market is ESPN's largest.

 

[OldPlayer]

The same market is ESPN's largest.

For clarity, Birmingham has the biggest share (percent of households watching), not the most eyeballs.

Birmingham declared top ESPN market for 12th consecutive year

 

[Rolltide24]

I’m on vacation and met a Texas supporter and grad at the pool Tuesday. Talked a lot of football. You’ll love this. He said the UT Network has been a big factor in their football program demise. Yes, you heard me correctly. A little of my beer escaped my mouth when he said that. Beer I couldn’t get back. He said the players and coaches are always having to record shows and do analysis for the network. Distracts them from preparing for games. You can’t make this stuff up!!

 

[252BAMA]

I’m on vacation and met a Texas supporter and grad at the pool Tuesday. Talked a lot of football. You’ll love this. He said the UT Network has been a big factor in their football program demise. Yes, you heard me correctly. A little of my beer escaped my mouth when he said that. Beer I couldn’t get back. He said the players and coaches are always having to record shows and do analysis for the network. Distracts them from preparing for games. You can’t make this stuff up!!

Goes back to at least 2013.

“I didn’t ask for it,” Brown said Monday, noting he’s worried that the six hours a week he spends taping three television shows and the network’s access to the first 30 minutes of daily practice may tip opposing coaches to player injuries, tendencies and schemes."

Mack Brown Doesn’t Like the Longhorn Network Either

"I didn't ask for it," the UT football coach said before adding that the ESPN channel gives opposing coaches too much information on his football program.

www.texasmonthly.com

 

[rick4bama]

Because, of the Network Texas play like crap!!

 

[TerryP]

Goes back to at least 2013.

“I didn’t ask for it,” Brown said Monday, noting he’s worried that the six hours a week he spends taping three television shows and the network’s access to the first 30 minutes of daily practice may tip opposing coaches to player injuries, tendencies and schemes."

Mack Brown Doesn’t Like the Longhorn Network Either

"I didn't ask for it," the UT football coach said before adding that the ESPN channel gives opposing coaches too much information on his football program.

www.texasmonthly.com

What didn't he blame during that stretch?

 

[252BAMA]

What didn't he blame during that stretch?

True, but six hours a week? And he was probably being conservative with that number. Sounds as if he had reason to complain.

 

[TerryP]

True, but six hours a week? And he was probably being conservative with that number. Sounds as if he had reason to complain.

From the article you linked earlier:

“[It] was either an example of simple honesty or a brilliantly executed shifting of the media narrative,” suggested Mike Finger of the Houston Chronicle.

Except there was no shift. If anything, the narrative switched from “we bounced back from that Oklahoma loss and beat Baylor for the first time since 2010” to “people on the Internet want to fire Mack Brown, so now Mack Brown blames the Longhorn Network.”

After this set of excuses from Mack, an ESPN spokesperson said it wasn't true; it was maybe two and a half hours and part of that was a radio simulcast that existed before they launched LHN. It was two TV shows. That fact 22 minute show takes an hour to put together...that's simply bad production.