There are those who will say that we now have our own network. Let's get that one out of the way. It's in the works, probably coming in a few years, as suggested in the article below. Check out the last paragraph of the article. Interesting. Notre Dame Network & Swarbrick-Dodds Relationship
Good logic by Swarbrick. Texas Longhorn Network will most likely endup as a State of Texas only network, but that will reach 90% of the fans. Currently though the Longhorn Network has nobody carrying it, not Directv, not Comcast not AT&T U-Verse....nobody. ND fans are nationwide and not heavily concentrated in one state like Texas so an Internet Portal does make a lot of sense. Many people are now adopting portals like Netflix and Hulu.com for viewing of at least some things that previously would have been cable/sat or over the air content. There is even talk that there is enough online content that some may be able to drop their cable contract.