Horns247 Board

If 100,000 people signed a petition, it might get someone's interest.

I think ESPN and even to some degree the Longhorn brass are attempting to go farther with the LHN than initially contemplated and it is potentially to the detriment of the university.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by that?

I think three football games on a network virtually no one can see hurts Texas football. I think it hurts Texas football significantly, particularly nationally at this time.

I'll be able to see every Alabama, Southern Cal and Notre Dame game this year on DirecTV. Not Texas. Same with every major sportswriter/media personality.

Not really. BU was the better team. We turned tha ball over. Often. Non of that offsets the manner in which the game was called. Baylor didn't need any help to beat us. They got it anyway in the name of getting Griffin and the conference the Heisman. Rewatch the game and see how late hits out of bounds weren't called, holding was allowed at a TTU08 level and borderline plays were called against UT. I.e the Irby TD that was called out despite his foot being well in bounds.

You're blind if you don't think that sort of thing happens all the time. And yeah, we've been the beneficiary of it a few times as well. KSU was rank incompetence. BU had intent.

They overturned this one. It counted.

Ok.

I'd sign a petition but I really wouldn't change from Uverse to Comcast if Comcast got it.

Look man, I'm not one of those dudes who refuses to ever blame officials. I firmly believe that the officials screwed us out of the KSU game last year.

But the Baylor game was all on us. The officials didn't give up a 60 yard bomb on the second play. The officials didn't throw four picks. The officials didn't lose two fumbles.

I'd bet that there is no other human being on this planet that turned that game off cursing the officials. They were an afterthought, and a perfectly officiated game would have led to a similar result. The only thing that could have changed that outcome was a healthy stable of RBs.

And for the record, the Irby catch was miraculous because it didn't seem possible that he could get his foot down in time. He did, and they eventually got it right, but I can't blame anyone for initially missing that call. It was an amazingly acrobatic play.