[h2]Texas A&M goes to NCAA on Longhorn Network[/h2]
Posted on: July 31, 2011 6:53 pm
Edited on: August 1, 2011 7:49 am
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Texas A&M is urging the NCAA to use a 17-year-old rules interpretation that it believes would keep the Longhorn Network from airing high school games.
CBSSports.com obtained documents that show A&M wants TLN classified as an "institutional publication", per bylaw 11.2.3.4, which would make it an "athletics representative of the institution." The 1994 interpretation dealt most mostly with what was, at the time, an explosion among specialty print publications. Several newsletters, magazines and weeklies sprung up in the 1990s that covered individual schools' sports. Several of those publications reported recruiting news in varying degrees as part of their coverage.
They were, in essence, what could interpreted as print versions of what the TLN is attempting to become in 2011. A&M is asking that the NCAA apply that Nov. 1994 ruling -- regarding those print publications -- to video-based publications.
If not, the school said, "the NCAA, in allowing institutions to create video-based publication agreements without any restriction on content, is opening Pandora's box."
A&M even uses a quote Texas AD DeLoss Dodds to drive home its point about TLN being an "athletics representative."
“This is yet another step leading up to our launch which will offer viewers unprecedented access to our sports programs …
