(04-12-2013 11:57 PM)jml2010 Wrote: (04-12-2013 11:15 PM)USAFMEDIC Wrote: (04-12-2013 10:21 PM)jml2010 Wrote: Besides aggie alums/students/t-shirt fans, no one will want to pay for the SEC network in this state. Texans have already demonstrated our dislike for the LHN and we will do the same for the SEC network. I promise this isn't a slam on the schools I like in the SEC ( LSU & Arkansas) but we won't help fill the coffers of a school who left the state.
Seriously think about this? You think Coog, Mustang, Owl, Horned Frog, Longhorn, Bear and Red Raider fans will be happy paying for something they could care less about? Ask Aggie fans how they feel about paying for the LHN?
And I seriously doubt there will ever be a Big XII network, as no one anywhere outside the Big XII cares about your conference. Maybe you all better warm up to the big dog a.k.a. LHN as thats all you will ever have. Aggie fans will buy the SECN and thats all we care about...
I agree about a Big 12 network. I mentioned in another thread that was a "Big IF".
Texans have already proved that we won't pay for the LHN and we won't pay to watch a team that left the state. aggie fans only represent a small miniscule fraction of the 26 million that live in this state. I promise you, all hell will break loose if Texans are asked/forced to pay for the SECN. I didn't care when DirecTV added the BTN but I along with millions of others in this state will cancel if we are forced to pay for a SE based conference in which only 1 team from this state plays in. Satellite/Cable companies know this and they will listen to the masses as they are losing subscribers by the day because of rising fees.
Your argument makes sense. But I would proffer that cable companies are losing subscribers for reasons far more poignant than rising fees and that if the SECN doesn't claim as much of the Texas market as it thinks it will it won't be because it has only 1 SW team. The biggest reasons for cable decline is the economy and because of that the jobs situation for many citizens of this nation, not just Texas. Their decisions are a matter of priority. The second reason is that you pay tremendous amounts of money for crap. I never realize that a rock song I heard in the early 80's would prove to be so true. Back then it was "57 channels and nothing on". Today it could be 457 channels and nothing on.
There is no artistry in production of most of the new shows. The plots are thin if they even exist, the dialogue is cut to snippets of meaningful discourse when it isn't simply puerile banter, and the best shows on were produced either by a company like HBO, or public television, or were produced in the 1960's & 70's and were memorized by someone my age 30 years ago. Now there have been exceptions all along, but not many and they are getting to be fewer and fewer.
I doubt the sports channels will suffer too much because a game is at least live and consists of new material. (Unless you watch the reruns of those which I don't.)
When you consider the span of your life statistically and then discount almost a third of that in sleep then the pertinent question becomes how much of my life can I afford to spend watching the tube? Activity and interaction with people are what make life enjoyable and oddly enough are activities associated medically with longevity. TV is not and actually decreases your average life expectancy significantly the more hours you watch it. One of the things that I think young people are doing right these days is cutting the cord.
If you don't listen to the garbage they call news, don't veg out in front of the tube, and spend noise and distraction free time with your family and friends you'll survive and thrive and probably be a lot happier. Then, if you watch your team play on Saturday and they win its a great week. SEC, Big 10, Big 12, ACC, PAC these are just hollow corporate logos. It's the people behind them that can be interesting and the people you are with when you watch them that make the spectating of the sport meaningful. If your team wins and nobody else cares is it really worth the investment of your time to keep up? But if the team is the starter of relationships that you share with others then it's worth every penny.