Morning Coffee

by Peter Bean on Mar 28, 2007 11:14 PM CDT in Texas Longhorns Basketball

Let's start with football, shall we? The Spring Game is this Saturday at noon, though the gates to DKR will open at 11:00 a.m. A note to any fans hoping to tailgate: the side streets surrounding the west, south, and east of the stadium will be closed for a 5k event. I'm going to be planning my own tailgate tomorrow, so if I learn anything of value, I'll pass it along to you.

If you're not in Austin this Saturday, there will be other ways to follow the action. AM 1300 The Zone will be broadcasting the game both over the local airwaves and via a live streaming internet feed. Additionally, MB-TF says that the game will be televised on Fox Sports Southwest. If that's correct it's great news for fans not in the area.

Speaking of MB-TF, presser transcripts from this week are up, including a view on the progress of the offense from Greg Davis and Limas Sweed, as well as some notes on the defense from Duane Akina, Brian Orakpo, and Derek Lokey.

Allow me a brief word on the commentary on the various decade lists of Longhorn football players: for starters, thank you. You'll be hard pressed to find a bigger fan of Longhorn football than myself, and though I've become quite the student of Longhorn history, it's simply impossible for a 27 year old - however big a fan - to have a complete perspective on every Longhorn great. My own knowledge base and opinions of these players is already tenfold what it was before we embarked on this project together. Please, by all means, keep the commentary coming.

There have been some legitimate questions about the format of the list, and honestly, after taking in all this commentary, I'm still working through how I'll compile the final product. For now, just note that it's a fluid process and I'm taking every comment into consideration. Again: thanks.

--PB--

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Cat maybe gone, but dont forget #9 softball

they blanked #2 A&M "last night" 5-0.

In addition to splitting the series with #3 OU.

by the other Andrew on Mar 29, 2007 12:02 AM CDT reply actions

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it sucks being a longhorn fan that lives on another state. thats mean i cant watch the spring game or regular games since its always in fox sports southwest or abc (southwest region). any help?

by texaslonghorns07 on Mar 29, 2007 12:58 AM CDT reply actions

Hmm

Hard to say. If you have a friend with DirecTV or another satellite package, see if they get Fox Sports Regional coverage of other areas.

--PB--

by Peter Bean on Mar 29, 2007 1:04 AM CDT up reply actions

other suggestions

If you have Time Warner digital cable, you could get BevoD. Can you get that in other states?

Also, MB-TF has a link to a subscription service you can buy for video of pretty much everything, so I would assume they would incude the spring game.

by hornbone on Mar 29, 2007 1:19 AM CDT up reply actions

I'm in another state and my cable package

has three channels called Fox College Sports in the digital area. Last year the Spring Game came on one of those (not live), but it eventually came on.

Check if you have those

by the other Andrew on Mar 29, 2007 9:52 AM CDT up reply actions

Drect TV Ch 643

From 1 to 2 pm EDT. If you don't have it I am sure a sports bar will, and considering that there is not that much going on at that time in sports, I would bet they would change a TV to that channel for you.

by Wells on Mar 29, 2007 11:35 AM CDT up reply actions

BevoD?

Can you give some detail por favor?

Street level

by UT2001 on Mar 29, 2007 8:24 AM CDT reply actions

yeah...

I don't have it, but from what I know, it's UT athletics on demand. Just like you can get HBO on demand. So you can select what you want to watch, like last year's Rose Bowl, or the baseball national championship game, or the men's swimming Big 12 championship, etc. I'm betting that they would have the spring game, but I don't know that for sure.

by hornbone on Mar 29, 2007 9:48 AM CDT up reply actions

thanks

for the suggestions. i guess im just gonna have to purchase fox sports southwest. do u guys know if all longhorn football games are previewed in fox sports southwest? by the way i live in cal, so i see games like usc, ucla and other neighboring states.

by texaslonghorns07 on Mar 29, 2007 11:30 AM CDT reply actions

Most of your football games will be blacked out

If you get FSSW, because they will be on ESPN game day package. I dont think I got a single game last year on FSSW and maybe one the year before that, they were all either game day or, for games like North Texas, $30 bucks PPV. I was able to get all of the games at my house, but you got to pay for the Game Day and PPV.

You do get a good bit of the basketball games that are not part of full court, but any game that is on FSSW only in Texas will be blacked out, even if it is not Full Court or PPV.

Overall, the Fox Sports every channel is not worth it unless you are getting it as a free add on to a larger premium package.

by Wells on Mar 29, 2007 11:40 AM CDT up reply actions

The add-on was a good value in Wisconsin

I added all the Fox Sports channels when I lived in Madison and I got regular programming for each of the channels and it cost $1 a month for the whole package. I got all the Big XII and Pac 10 games I could handle, along with stupid Brewers games on the local Fox Sports channel.

by Bob LaBlog on Mar 29, 2007 11:50 AM CDT up reply actions

I have it too

And it was worth it to me because they at least replay Longhorn football games a couple of times after it's broadcasted.

Also, I got several basketball games (which are exceptionally rare here in NYC) and I got both Longhorn Sports shows and general Big XII wrap-up shows, and also High School football, all of which make me feel a little more at home.

But most football games are on ABC these days anyway, and so gameplan is your best bet.

by BrooklynHorn on Mar 29, 2007 11:57 AM CDT up reply actions

If youre in LA,

You'll see most of the Big 12 games on Fox Sports West or Prime ("fox sports west 2"), so you probably dont need to buy the package.

Because of the time difference between the two time zones there usually arent any Pac 10 games on at the same time as Big 12 games.

by the other Andrew on Mar 29, 2007 12:00 PM CDT up reply actions

How to get tickets?

Do any of you guys know how one would get tickets for the orange-white scrimmage this weekend? Do they sell them at the site or? I've had a look at the UT sites, but they don't really seem to have any info on them.

Would be good to go and see how our football team is looking for next season.

by chrmc on Mar 29, 2007 1:19 PM CDT reply actions