Barking Carnival

Fox is getting out of college football altogether, deciding that the BCS was not worth $500 million, so the BCS games will be moving to cable.
Starting in 2011, the BCS series will become a part of the Four-Letter Network. In its announcement that it was dropping out, Fox sounded just like the jilted lover stating […]

The ABC/ESPN conglomerate recently made a billion dollar deal with the SEC to lock up a large part of that conference’s TV rights through 2014. They also may be getting ready to jump back into the BCS Championship Bowl Series.
Right now ABC is enjoying a ratings jump of 33% for their Primetime College Football on […]

The current pact between the BCS and Fox ends in 2010 and the BCS wants Fox to pay 60% more for the Post Season games. That would mean that Fox would pay $132 million a year for its four BCS games.
That’s a huge jump in rights fees, especially with the way the economy is right […]

Mr. College Football, Tony Barnhart, said he thinks Fullmer is done at Tennessee.
It’s hard to see Fulmer returning as Tennessee’s coach: Phillip Fulmer is an old offensive lineman which means he will work and fight until the last game is over. But what I saw Saturday night in Knoxville was a sense of resignation that […]

It will be their first ever trip to Lubbock. Duh.
This will be the third time in four weeks that ESPN has covered Texas. Hopefully this will put the ‘ESPN is biased against Texas’ meme to rest. At least for another week.
This is the biggest thing to happen in Lubbock since the premier of Larry the […]

Thoughts from BL.
Bill Little commentary: The treasure chest
Saturday in Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium was a keepsake kind of day.
Oct. 19, 2008
Bill Little, Texas Media Relations
Somewhere, tucked away in a box of old keepsakes, is a faded orange ribbon.
It is about an inch wide and probably six inches long,
Oh. My. God. I think Bill’s writing […]

First, the post RRS euphoria

Then, this cover of Texas Monthly

And now, even the NBA preview
H/T to quite a few people

Colt McCoy had a conversation with Jim Rome earlier today, which does not in fact violate his religious beliefs as we initially reported since Rome is not technically, it turns out, a pimp. We sincerely apologize for the mistake. We’re currently researching any potential theological complications should Colt need to be in the same room […]

Texas is a unanimous number one.
Other Big 12 teams:
4. OU
7. Oklahoma State
8. Texas Tech
16. Missouri
19. Kansas

The State is not strong.

Effective immediately.

I may be the only one here who cares, but this sucks.

Editor’s Note: This writer is mean. He once hitchhiked to Will Rogers graveside to speak ill of him. He even shot a man just for snoring. But it’s funny, so here you go. - SR
I have a confession to make. “Fake Ken Tremendous” is not my real name. […]

ESPN has assembled a panel comprising ‘analysts, former players, former coaches and ESPN.com’s college football staff’ to vote on their Heisman candidates at this point in the season.
Chase Daniel is the clear favorite at this point followed by Tim Tebow and Mark Sanchez. I’d personally rank Sanchez number one at this point because he has […]

I had hoped that Brown would at least change it to “Rolling (with the) Tide” in deference to his colleague, Mike Price, but no luck there.
“Give El Paso credit; this place was electric,” Brown said. “They surged at the first of the game. Then our guys stood up and handled it.”
It is nice to […]

I found it interesting that on the same day that the Wall Street Journal runs an interview with Roger Goodell where he talks about simulcasting games on the web while they are being broadcast on TV that the NCAA handed out restrictive blogging guidelines.
The Wiz breaks down the blogging policy as giving the host institution […]

When the Big 10 created its own cable channel, speculation began that others would soon follow. Not the SEC — they decided that having their broadcast partners (CBS/ESPN) do all the heavy lifting was a better idea, so they signed multi-billion dollar deals that run to 2025.
The Big 12? Maybe, but one school in the […]

Excited about this presser. Seats are assigned for the media today. Cleve Bryant has offered to help me find mine. Maybe Cleve isn’t so bad after all.

“I’d like you to meet Mohammed, Jugdish, Sidney and Clayton.”
Fucker.
Brown is about to start. Great team performance. New stadium that is fabulous. Who gets the first praise?
“First, I’d like […]

The jocks at Fox Sports finally figured out how to remerchandize their stash of Big 12 games, so they are rolling out Big 12 No-Huddle this season. You essentially get their broadcast with all of the time cut from the whistle to the next snap. The entire game is shown in one hour. […]

Austin is officially a top 50 Nielsen TV Market (#49). The Market rankings were released last week for the 2008-09 season. It used to be a significant number for local stations, in that the Top 50 was a breaking point for large institutional buyers. Today, not so much, although it can’t hurt. But it matters to […]

The four-letter network is going to pay the Southeastern Conference  $2.5 Billion over a 15 year period — about $150 million a year – for the Conference’s TV rights to any and all content not taken by CBS.
This ESPN deal matches up with the 15-year pact the SEC signed with CBS, both will run from 2010-2025.
The […]