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Originally Posted by Stewie
You really don't understand Texas (which I hate BTW). They have 50,000 students. Where'd you come up with 50,000 fans? Texas buries any school in the PAC by a long way. In fact, they bury all universities except maybe ND.
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Don't count "fans", count subscriptions. Just about every Longhorn football game will be on a channel the average Longhorn fan can get without an increased subscription. One, maybe two games a year will be on the LHN,which I'm sure most sports bars will subscribe to. The rest of the programming is non football sports.
Don't think in terms of state populations, or TV market shares, or the general Longhorn fan. The only people that are going to add another 5-10 dollars to their cable bill are hardcore fans that don't have much better to do. Not only that, but the deal they made was with a much smaller cable company, Verizon (which I have and really like, by the way). This means you not only have to want to have a higher cable bill, you also have to go to the trouble of switching your cable provider (something Verizon, I'm sure, is hoping for). They went with the smaller company because none of the larger ones were interested in airing it.
So, yes, about 50,000 is a more accurate number. And just about any cable exec outside of Verizon will tell you that.