A report in the Houston Chronicle on Sunday night says that Texas A&M, which has been mulling the possibility of leaving the Big 12 Conference for the Pac-10 along with other teams, will instead join the SEC as its 13th school.
A&M’s board of regents likely will meet late this week — perhaps as soon as Thursday — to decide the Aggies’ sporting future, a person with knowledge of the situation said. And that future appears to be the SEC, as the powerful league to the east is prepared to lure A&M away from the clinging-to-hope Big 12, a proposed Pacific-10 affiliation and its storied league rivalry with Texas.
The SEC is prepared to take on the Aggies as its 13th team, the insider said, with no clear timeframe on when it would add a 14th or whom that would be.
Officially the school says it has not spurned overtures from the Pac-10 and it hasn't closed the door on remaining with the Big 12 as it struggles to maintain an existence.
The move would almost certainly end the school's traditional Thanksgiving Day game against the University of Texas. Then again, with the Longhorns likely heading to the Pac-10, that might have been a foregone conclusion.
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I don't buy
that being in different conferences eliminates the annual rivalry game. Too much money on the table. And this expansion craziness is all about money.
There’s too much money to be made off Texas and Texas A&M’s anger at each other, and the added eyes of having an annual “Pac-10 vs. SEC” showdown. If anything, they’re going to make MORE money off it at this point than had everything just blown over.
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by KingJamesIV on Jun 13, 2010 11:50 PM EDT reply actions
SEC a little disappointed?
I would imagine the SEC’s first choice would have been Texas or Oklahoma. A&M hasn’t been football relevant in many years, but I guess they provide the SEC with a valuable market in Texas. I hear Virginia Tech is also a target of the SEC as well. Again, I’m sure they would prefer UT or OU but a premier program like VT, in a new market no less, is not a bad consolation.
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by dula14 on Jun 14, 2010 5:16 PM EDT reply actions
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