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The Big 12 is actively exploring a possible alliance with the Atlantic Coast Conference and two other unspecified leagues for purposes of scheduling and marketing and possibly even television partnerships in a move that could preclude those leagues from further expansion.
Weve had conversations with three other leagues, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby told the American-Statesman on Friday afternoon. The ACC is one of them. Its a process of discovery that would provide some of the benefits of larger membership without actually adding members.
Bowlsby declined to name the other two leagues, but the Pac-12 Conference is presumed to be one of them because that 12-team league is landlocked with the Big 12 to its east, which makes Pac-12 expansion with like major-college institutions more geographically prohibitive.
Bowlsby said the topic would probably be discussed during the two-day meetings of the Big 12 athletic directors that begin Monday in Grapevine but stressed that certainly nothing is imminent about a potential alliance.
Continued at http://www.statesman.com/news/sports/big-12-exploring-alliance-with-acc-two-other-leagu/nT7Bt/ .
Cross-posted in the Texas Group---http://www.democraticunderground.com/10785583 .
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)Minus the traitorous Aggies.
TexasTowelie
(112,417 posts)Southwestern University (Georgetown)? The other charter members of the conference were Baylor, Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University), Rice, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Don't laugh El Supremo! The first intercollegiate baseball game in the state of Texas on April 21, 1884 where Southwestern destroyed the University of Texas 52-12.
Southwestern also beat Texas in football the first time we played each other (11-9 in 1908) and one more time (14-7 in 1943) when we won the Sun Bowl that season.
Then back in 1988 SU took UT in the Texas league of lacrosse (club sport).
I even attended one baseball game at Disch-Falk around 1990 where we gave the highly regarded UT baseball team a good fight and had a 4-2 lead at the end of the fifth inning. Those great records that the team had in the 80's were related primarily to the fact that UT played about 75%-80% of their games at home and Disch-Falk is larger than most of the other university fields by about 30-40 feet. Had the game been at SU, then UT would have lost since we had a number of hits in the final innings that would have been homers instead of caught balls resulting in outs.
Just exercising some Texas bragging rights among friends!
fishwax
(29,149 posts)Assuming Arkansas wasn't in it. Baylor and Texas Tech are hit or miss, and you've got to figure TCU to have a down year or two. So, yeah, the Longhorns could compete there.