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[QUOTE="kyleslamb, post: 22756, member: 895"]
Personally, I think the Big Ten would be willing to allow Texas to keep the network for non-conference rights and just not take part in revenues for BTN.

For instance:

Texas gets to broadcast all non-conference football games and basketball games (remember the PBC post specifies it wants a guarantee of 4 non-conference games? I believe that's a hint) on the LHN. This would amount to 3-4 football games a year and upwards to 7-8 basketball games. Meanwhile, the BTN would retain rights for all Texas home games against conference teams.

Further, the BTN could grant rights for replaying Texas conference games on the LHN after 24 hours or some other arranged time period. All other conference and television revenues involved postseason and Tier-1 rights would be split evenly among all teams.

I know this surprises people, but I think they'd actually make that concession. Also, I had a big, long post on this elsewhere, but I have been hearing that the Big Ten will be shopping its Tier 1 rights around in 2015 when it negotiates with ESPN. It's not happy with the leader right now, and do NOT be surprised if the BTN lands on NBC/Versus since NBC is now pushing Versus (NBC Sports Network) as the competitor to ESPN. As luck would have it... this sure would work out perfectly in their bid for Notre Dame.
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