Texas A&M+SEC=Twitter rumors

[Al Bundy]

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by UCFSports
Texas A&M Board of Regents will meet on Thursday to discuss a possible move to the SEC.

[Saulbadguy]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

Mizzou. Then the Big XII will be officially done.

Or OU.

Don't count out the University of Kansas. They have options.

[LiveSteam]

Originally Posted by Prowl

COLLEGE STATION – The Longhorn Network, more than a month before its scheduled start, already has at least one rapt audience: rival Texas A&M.

A&M has added a closed-door session concerning the Longhorn Network to its regents’ regularly-scheduled meeting on Thursday and Friday, a person with knowledge of the situation said Monday. The agenda item is dubbed “Big 12 Conference.”

The execution session will be informational only, including concerning UT’s plans to air a Big 12 football game on the ESPN-owned network, and to potentially air high school games, the insider said. No action will be taken, the person added, the regents will simply be informed of the latest by lawyers concerning the deep-pocketed network.

The insider said A&M is committed, for now, to making a 10-team Big 12 work, and that the threat of a potential move to the Southeastern Conference is not in the immediate future. The Aggies nearly bolted the Big 12 for the SEC last summer, after Nebraska left for the Big Ten and Colorado for the Pac-12, before last-hour financial pledges for the remaining members by Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe kept the league intact.

The A&M insider added, however, that UT’s network, funded by ESPN, might put the league’s other nine schools at disadvantages on multiple fronts, and A&M is leading the way in checking every possibility – and also leaving its long-term options open should the league appear to have one dominating member thanks primarily to the unprecedented network. The Longhorn Network is a 20-year, $300 million partnership between ESPN, UT and IMG College.

The network is scheduled to crank up on Aug. 26 with a two-hour show from the UT campus, followed by the Longhorns’ volleyball season opener against Pepperdine in Austin. The network is scheduled to air two UT football games: the season opener against Rice on Sept. 3, and the to-be-determined Big 12 game.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...#ixzz1SWHVrzrb

PARTY POOP ER :-(

[LiveSteam]

Originally Posted by Dante Hicks

Don't count out the University of Kansas. They have options.

Option 1 SIT DOWN
option 2 SHUT UP
Option 3 DON'T SPEAK, TILL SPOKEN TO.
Those are the jay-hawk options IMO

[Bugeater]

lol...they didn't start their own network just to televise two football games.

[Discuss Thrower]

So if this goes through, will it mean the rest of the Big XII-2 goes CUSA while UT goes independent?

[LiveSteam]

Originally Posted by J-Town Fan 1988

So if this goes through, will it mean the rest of the Big XII-2 goes CUSA while UT goes independent?

Who knows what could happen. 95% sure NOTHING this year. 10 schools will give it try, feel it out. 2013 we might see a big shake up.
I HOPE IM WRONG! It can all end now for my money.

[Extra Point]

Originally Posted by J-Town Fan 1988

So if this goes through, will it mean the rest of the Big XII-2 goes CUSA while UT goes independent?

And look at how well Notre Dame did so well, over time. TX will implode. Someone will blow the whistle at their program, and if he/she survives, that program will blow chunks.

No thanks, though, to Mr. Beebe.

[FD]

A&M never had any SEC invite that didn't include either Texas or OU, and they don't now. The SEC wants Texas or OU, A&M was always just a bargaining chip.

[007]

[Crush]

Deja Vu II: Electric Boogaloo starring John Goodman and Denzel Washington?

[FD]

So after a little research, rumors are that as A&M continues to stomp its feet and pout about the Longhorn Network, a big donor has promised a 9 figure check conditional on a move to the SEC, so the board is having a meeting about it. None of this, of course, changes the fact that A&M has never had, and will not have, any invitation to join the SEC that doesn't include Texas or OU. They can dream about the SEC all they want but it aint happening.

[Param]

Originally Posted by Extra Point

And look at how well Notre Dame did so well, over time.

NBC keeps signing the checks. ND is doing just fine.

[sportsman1]

There is smoke. On my Tech Message board everyone is talking about how pissed aggy is about the Longhorn Network and that a certain 9 digit donation to aggy hinges on them going SEC. All of this points to some sort of smoke. Who knows? I hope so. I want the Big 12 over now. I don't want to be the Longwhores B anymore. I am tired of Texas politics, and I am tired of corruption. Let Beebe the bebe burn!

[patteeu]

The main thing I get from this thread is that Livestream and Billay are frustrated by the remaining members of the Big 12 and think Nebraska ended up getting burned by the earlier round of realignments.

[DaKCMan AP]