PPV??? Are you kidding me???

by Longhorny on Aug 24, 2008 7:08 PM CDT Comment 19 comments

Is anyone else upset about this? Well If you are in Texas its prolly no big deal, but I am stationed in the FL Panhandle, so it's a different situation. I thought Texas was a big enough school that they would not have to do PPV. Sigh.....

I pray this is a contract thing and that all the games (that are not ESPN games) are not PPV... Otherwise it will be difficult to follow Texas this year. Will the game be available on MBfootball that night??? Does anyone know??? Any horns in the Pensacola FL area???

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PPV-Good or bad for Texas???

Bad, F - U Fox, thanks for the c*ck block..

89 votes

Good, mo money, mo better...

7 votes

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yeah no sh#t

it totally sucks, thank god I’m going to the game, but still it ain’t right. I expect bowl games and what not to go to ppv but season openers? To hell w/ PPV

by vivalonghorns05 on Aug 24, 2008 7:24 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs

Grab your pitch fork...

…if you don’t have a lantern grab a torch.

by Longhorny on Aug 24, 2008 8:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I guess I should be pissed

but really I just expect this type of thing early in the season. But you’re correct in that PPV sucks and we shouldn’t have to pay $30 to see our team.

Now if you will excuse me I need to go order the game…

by UT2001 on Aug 24, 2008 9:46 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Texas Exes

I feel like most Texas Exes chapters have a regular bar that they watch Texas games at, and they usually get the bar to order the ppv games, but I can’t speak for all of them. You might want to look for the one in your area.

by dtc on Aug 24, 2008 10:11 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Still alot cheaper than tickets, gas, etc.

by ryanlionrah on Aug 24, 2008 11:23 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Just the result...

……of consistently scheduling pansies of the SunBelt and/or C-USA. If this were a team from the bottom third of a BCS Conference……., say Vanderbilt or Northwestern, this game would be on TV.

This wasn’t a problem before Mack brought his scheduling to the 40Acres.

--- All roads to the Big-XII Championship lead through OU/RRS. It's not just another game! We're all about championships here. ---

by HornChamps on Aug 25, 2008 1:38 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

I more or less agree with the first point,

though I think we’d have to aim higher than Vandy or Northwestern to get any sort of national coverage. But this is hardly a phenomenon unique to Mack Brown, every premier program schedules a few non-bcs tomato cans. USC is perhaps the least guilty of this, but Carroll still does so at least every other year.

In CFB, where there are no pre-season games and we live in the somewhat illogical world of a 12 game “playoff”, this is a complaint common to fans of pretty much every quality team. If all teams played 12 competitive games, and one or two loss champions were common instead of dubious, then ire should be directed at Mack if he still scheduled the non-bcs all stars.

As it is, I think you’ve got a bone to pick with more gents than Mack Brown.

by learned hand on Aug 25, 2008 10:28 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

I agree with both of you

I don’t want our first game of the year to be against someone in a BCS conference. But I also hate playing complete gimmes that we have no ties to every year. I don’t mind playing Rice because they’re an old SWC team, but I wish we could play them in the first game of every year instead of some random Sun Belt team. Then later in the OOC schedule play a CUSA team or a bottom-third BCS team.

The only problem with that is that those teams will require a home and home or at least a 2-home, 1-away deal, which takes away home games for us, which those of us who complain about bad scheduling will also complain about.

by billyzane on Aug 25, 2008 11:45 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Just think of it as a preseason practice

That’s really all it is. Pay a crappy team to come in, charge outrageous PPV fees ($30!), and put on a laughable excuse for a football game. Everyone goes away feeling cheated.

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. If they get mad, you're a mile away AND you have their shoes.

by Caradoc on Aug 26, 2008 9:34 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Which cable companies carry FSN ppv?

'Til Gabriel blows his horn...

by mattyj on Aug 25, 2008 6:37 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

SEC Biggetry...

HAHAH a big12 game in georgia…Ya Right….PPV might become my best friend…I’m replacing food with my local PPV Channel…

Hook Em!

by mccoy12 on Aug 25, 2008 6:56 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Online

Is there any way to watch the game online?

by McChiles on Aug 25, 2008 10:46 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Game not sold out

I’m hazy on this so correct me if I’m wrong. I think the telecasts go to PPV if the games aren’t sold out by a certain time preceding the game day. The game isn’t sold out, so it goes to PPV. Now, if I am severely mistaken, and this is not why the game is PPV, I’d love to know the real reasons. Please someone more in the know, holla back.

by Kool Hand on Aug 25, 2008 6:16 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

UT is not among the top dogs.

You’ should have noticed the last two years the Horns have had very few games nationally broadcast; only the marquee match-ups, unlike 2005 when the Horns were always available in some manner. Last year I think we had three national games (aside from the bowl).

So, Texas slides down the scale. ESPN2 and FXSSW will pick us up a lot because the Horns dominate the regional market. But when we play teams like FAU, there’s not much to bulk things up.

I suspect, aside from the scheduling problems with VY, retiring the jersey’s was one of the considerations for pumping up the home opener in the new stadium to get a true sell out. Otherwise, FAU may not have sold anymore tickets than Rice will except that it is the first game and that gets a bump. The football world doesn’t revolve around us this year, although many do adhere to the Copernican perspective that by god it should.

I don’t think PPV has anything to do with sell out games; if it was such a big game, someone would be broadcasting it because there would be money to be made the old fashioned way; that is, advertising and propaganda.

by whills on Aug 25, 2008 6:57 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

NFL

You are thinking of NFL games. They have something like a 48 hour rule where they will locally blackout a game if it’s not a sellout. Never heard of that in college. Games like this go to PPV simply because they know that the vast majority of the people interested in watching will be hardcore fans that will pay the 30 bucks.

by rchorns on Aug 26, 2008 12:04 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Trust that your grass is greener

Texas gets every game televised every year. One game a year is PPV, and it is usually the patsy we start the season with.

Colorado on the other hand usually has at least one if not two or three games a year that is only available on the radio.

I have not hard facts on how this compares nationally, but my guess is that very few schools (ND, USC, and probably most of the SEC) can say they have every game every year available on TV nationally (if you have a dish).

by Wells on Aug 26, 2008 8:37 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Big 11 gets most on TV

Even before they got their own Network, ESPN covered all of their games. If it was not free, you had to have GamePlan or PPV it to watch. My boss is an tOSU fan and does not miss any games here in the Land of Theives. I have cable and cannot get the damn game here. Damn commie state.

Gona try to find a dish to watch. Did anyone figure out how to get it on the Net? I know some of BON did get the games that way last year.

by Bevoboy94 on Aug 26, 2008 4:16 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs