Posted on 06/14/2010 5:15:20 PM PDT by Shamrock498
The Big 12 Conference will stay alive after all 10 remaining teams have agreed to remain members, according to multiple reports late this afternoon.
Texas turned down an invitation from the Pacific-10 Conference, announcing in a university statement late this afternoon that the Longhorns will continue competing in the Big 12. Texas president William Powers Jr. and athletic director DeLoss Dodds will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The Texas Board of Regents meeting set for Tuesday was cancelled.
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“Give ‘em another play.”
I heard the fighting irish is going to join the big 10.
Rats. I was looking forward to the Aggies coming to the SEC.
Texas’s Athletic Director is from Kansas State and he has a lot of loyalty to his Alma Mater. This was all about keeping Kansas, Kansas State and Kansas City from getting screwed.
Me too.
The Big 12 becomes the Big 10 and the Big 1(1)0 becomes the Big 12?
maybe the big 10 and big XII can just swap stationary and their signs outside their office’s...
And the Pac-10 become 11. This must be the new math that the teacher’s unions are gouging us for...
This is the greatest news that could possibly happen. Now it’s time to replace those two schools and become the Big 12 again. Anyone taking votes?
I could not stand the thought of the Horns going to Washington every year. What kind of say would the six Big 12 schools have had in the PAC 10?
Great news! I was against joining the Pac-10 until I learned the Big XII South was coming with them. The once I heard the UT president was a Cal-Berkeley alum, I smelled an inside job.
I’m glad everyone came to their senses.
Thank you, A&M. In your own way, you forced the rest of the conference to work it out.
As an Aggie in GA I was dying for us to join the SEC, and am in utter disbelief that we caved to Texas yet again. While it would take awhile for us to become competitive in the SEC, to open that rich recruiting ground up beyond LSU would have certainly increased our potential in the long run.
As it is A&M will now deservedly remain Texas’ b!tch and fight to compete with Texas Tech and Baylor in football.
If we get blown out by Arkansas again this year, which I expect, our AD had better start looking for a new job.
Great news. We don’t need mega-conferences. Twelve is about the right number for a college conference.
If USC and Texas want to play each other every year for another big payoff, they can accomplish that by dropping some of their powder puff opponents and scheduling each other every year. The same goes for any other schools who want more big TV revenue payoffs. No one has to screw up all the conference alignments just to have a few more big match-ups of teams in big TV markets.
Welcome Boise State to the MWC.
Notre Dame ought to join the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference--and start a rivalry with Occidental College.
What about trying to get Arkansas, and TCU and re-kindle some of the old SWC rivalries ?
No idea if either is possible, I was just thinking about that this morning.
I would guess TCU with either BYU or SMU. I would also guess that Utah makes the PAC-10 the PAC-12.
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