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RayShimley said:
Idiots. It is not gonna happen. SEC hasn't even figured out if they are going to accept A&M yet for chrissakes. Mizzou would be subject to all the same problems that A&M had, perhaps even moreso considering their Chancellor is the B12's frickin' chairman.
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Hopefully he gets it out that the conference is moving to the big 10 model on revenue sharing and that texas has some big decisions to make about changing or leaving.
 
So has there been any movement on the legal hurdles for aTm to leave yet? I don't think Mizzou is going anywhere, and it sounds like WVU is also off the table. So does the SEC really sit at 13? It seems like the ACC is locking things down, and I just don't see much left for SEC expansion options. Unless, the SEC never actually intended to expand, hence the legal hurdles.

The longer this drags on, the more I can actually see aTm back in the Big 12.... It kind of even makes me wonder if there is coordination between aTm and the rest of the league to pressure UT. This was the first move that set the whole process in motion after all. I don't see how we get into our current negotiating position with UT without aTm firing this initial shot.... If there is any school in the league willing to do something dramatic to try to stick it to the Horns, that school is aTm.

Okay, I will take my tinfoil hat off now.
 
aeroclone said:
So has there been any movement on the legal hurdles for aTm to leave yet? I don't think Mizzou is going anywhere, and it sounds like WVU is also off the table. So does the SEC really sit at 13? It seems like the ACC is locking things down, and I just don't see much left for SEC expansion options. Unless, the SEC never actually intended to expand, hence the legal hurdles.

The longer this drags on, the more I can actually see aTm back in the Big 12.... It kind of even makes me wonder if there is coordination between aTm and the rest of the league to pressure UT. This was the first move that set the whole process in motion after all. I don't see how we get into our current negotiating position with UT without aTm firing this initial shot.... If there is any school in the league willing to do something dramatic to try to stick it to the Horns, that school is aTm.

Okay, I will take my tinfoil hat off now.
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I believe A&M legitimately intended to (intends to) leave. The farthest I'll buy into a conspiracy theory is that maybe the SEC didn't seek out A&M and was only "interested" in the sense that they basically told A&M, "if you do all the work and take all the flak, I guess we'd probably take you."
 
aeroclone said:
So has there been any movement on the legal hurdles for aTm to leave yet? I don't think Mizzou is going anywhere, and it sounds like WVU is also off the table. So does the SEC really sit at 13? It seems like the ACC is locking things down, and I just don't see much left for SEC expansion options. Unless, the SEC never actually intended to expand, hence the legal hurdles.

The longer this drags on, the more I can actually see aTm back in the Big 12.... It kind of even makes me wonder if there is coordination between aTm and the rest of the league to pressure UT. This was the first move that set the whole process in motion after all. I don't see how we get into our current negotiating position with UT without aTm firing this initial shot.... If there is any school in the league willing to do something dramatic to try to stick it to the Horns, that school is aTm.

Okay, I will take my tinfoil hat off now.
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I don't think it was part of a double agenda by A&M. They were out the door and the only thing that stopped it for now was Baylor's threat to sue.
 
aeroclone said:
So has there been any movement on the legal hurdles for aTm to leave yet? I don't think Mizzou is going anywhere, and it sounds like WVU is also off the table. So does the SEC really sit at 13? It seems like the ACC is locking things down, and I just don't see much left for SEC expansion options. Unless, the SEC never actually intended to expand, hence the legal hurdles.

The longer this drags on, the more I can actually see aTm back in the Big 12.... It kind of even makes me wonder if there is coordination between aTm and the rest of the league to pressure UT. This was the first move that set the whole process in motion after all. I don't see how we get into our current negotiating position with UT without aTm firing this initial shot.... If there is any school in the league willing to do something dramatic to try to stick it to the Horns, that school is aTm.

Okay, I will take my tinfoil hat off now.
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I see what you are saying, but if TAMU has to come crawling back to the B12 it will be fairly humiliating for them. Don't see them doing that voluntarily, but I agree, the longer this gets drawn out the less attractive it is from the SEC's standpoint.
 
RayShimley said:
I see what you are saying, but if TAMU has to come crawling back to the B12 it will be fairly humiliating for them. Don't see them doing that voluntarily, but I agree, the longer this gets drawn out the less attractive it is from the SEC's standpoint.
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Yep, it definately hasn't gone the way that SEC has planned I don't think. If they end up with A&M who do they go after for the 14th? MU sounds like they are staying in an improved B12. They rejected WVU and they maybe a possible canidate for B12 expansion. FSU has the hurdle of being in the same state of an existing member. VT?
 
RayShimley said:
I see what you are saying, but if TAMU has to come crawling back to the B12 it will be fairly humiliating for them. Don't see them doing that voluntarily, but I agree, the longer this gets drawn out the less attractive it is from the SEC's standpoint.
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I dont think so, I know the first thing the Big 12 was doing is going back to A&M one last time.
 
It seems like OU is having a press conference at the same time. I think this is an official reformation of the Big 12, but weirder things have happened. Beebe will of course be gone.
 
UNIGuy4Cy said:
You think so?
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My understanding is the meeting today is TX judgement day. The Big 12 is moving to the Big 10 model on revenue sharing and everyone but Texas is on-board. So, do they want to consider changing their position to follow everyone else or are they going to move on. Now, I am sure that is not what the press conference will say but a stake will have been driven into the ground. We can no longer live in a house of cards. And all the work up to this point has put the conference in a good negotiating position against TX. I imagine this to be a day that Bob Powers Jr. will never forget. (Neither will Bowen and GG, by the way).
 
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