As most folks probably know by now, yesterday the SEC voted unanimously to invite Texas A&M, as long as the remaining Big 12 schools agreed not to pursue legal action against the SEC and A&M.
Reports from last night and early this morning were that Baylor was going to consider suing, which would put the whole thing on hold indefinitely.
Now reports are that
BU is backing down, and we will soon learn the deal is a "go".
There is also
west coast reporting that politics and cultural differences may keep texas out of the PAC1#, and "...in the event of departures by Texas A&M and Missouri and the Oklahoma schools? The Longhorns -- with the aid of ESPN, which wants the Big 12 to survive -- would attempt to reconstitute the conference with Texas Tech, Baylor, Kansas and Kansas State, Iowa State and a handful of newcomers (Houston? SMU? Pittsburgh? Louisville?) before throwing in the towel."
Should that last likelihood come to pass, I sincerely hope that the other schools tell texas it is equal partners like every other conference or forget it. Yes, texas would be the only football power in such a league, and texas could go independent, but it will still need a home for its 17 remaining athletic programs, so the other potential members have some clout *if* they stand together against texas.
If they don't, I hope KU's leaders have the gumption to say "hasta la vista" and look for another home.
"So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late" -- Bob DylanTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. - Mark Twain, "Innocents Abroad""Out of the tree of life I just picked me a plum... Still it's a real good bet the best is yet to come." song sung by Sheahon Zenger, 2011-12-09.
