Rift in Texas
Posted on: June 11, 2010 8:46 amScore: 127Rate This Post:Rate This Post: Rate This Post: Fair Good Cool Awesome I Love It! Your morning expansion line for Friday includes news that Texas and Texas A&M may break apart.
Call it an expansion micro-burst. First it was the Big 12 breaking up. Now the most powerful faction of the Big 12 could be drifting apart. We always thought that Texas and A&M were joined at the hip pads when it came to expansion. But a Thursday meeting produced no consensus between Texas and Texas A&M. I hear that A&M prefers the SEC while the league is a non-starter for Texas.
I also hear that Jim Delany is still trying like heck to get Texas into the Big Ten. But what about that "Tech problem"?
The dominoes figure to officially start tumbling today when Nebraska announces it is joining the Big Ten. I wrote the heck out of this issue this week but it bears repeating: The Big 12 cannot survive if Nebraska leaves. 1) The TV rights go way down; 2) What's to keep Texas, or any other school, leaving in two, three, four or five years? The Big 12 is a bad marriage that cannot go on.
The biggest issues on the table going into Friday:
a) What does Texas do?
b) What does Texas do?
c) What does Texas do?
OK, seriously:
a) Where do Texas and A&M end up and do they go as a unit?
b) Where does the Big Ten strike next (because it will strike next)?
c) Where does the Pac-10 strikes next (please don't believe his stuff about the Pac-10 stopping at 11)?
d) What are you doing at 5 p.m.? Remember when happy hour today was the deadline for Missouri and Nebraska? Nebraska is gone and Missouri has no idea where it stands.
http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry...ines;other
