PartyBear said:
Orange bloods is reporting Texas will give its notice to the XII as early as within a week. It really is time to scramble.
Texas A&M AD Ross Bjork speaks out against report that Texas, Oklahoma want to join SEC - ESPN https://t.co/Ci1vizdhE2
— π₯πππΎπΆππ±πΆππππππ»ππΎππΎπ (@ProfessorJVH) July 21, 2021
If Texas and Oklahoma join the SEC weβre looking at...
— Texas Sports Life (@TXSportsLife) July 21, 2021
SEC West:
1. Arkansas
2. LSU
3. Mississippi
4. MS State
5. Missouri
6. Oklahoma
7. Texas
8. Texas A&M
SEC East:
9. Alabama
10. Auburn
11. Florida
12. Georgia
13. Kentucky
14. South Carolina
15. Tennessee
16. Vanderbilt
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PartyBear said:
Orange bloods is reporting Texas will give its notice to the XII as early as within a week. It really is time to scramble.
PartyBear said:
Lol it sounds like A&M is more upset about facing Texas annually again than the XII remnant are about their uncertain futures.
Bear8084 said:PartyBear said:
Orange bloods is reporting Texas will give its notice to the XII as early as within a week. It really is time to scramble.
It's Orange bloods....
This is a shock to almost everyone. I doubt anything has been worked out.
#BREAKING:
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) July 22, 2021
Early next week, the @TexasLonghorns and @UofOklahoma will send a letter to the @Big12Conference stating that neither school will renew their media contracts when they expire in 2025.
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Disagree with your assessment. This has been in the works, quietly, for weeks. Today's was Aggy's last ditch effort to get the word out and try to stir up some roadblocks after finding they didn't have any SEC SEC SEC allies who would vote "not" with them.boognish_bear said:
These comments from the A&M AD don't seem like this is something that has been in the worksTexas A&M AD Ross Bjork speaks out against report that Texas, Oklahoma want to join SEC - ESPN https://t.co/Ci1vizdhE2
— π₯πππΎπΆππ±πΆππππππ»ππΎππΎπ (@ProfessorJVH) July 21, 2021
Even so, Bjork said he will be "diligent in our approach to protect Texas A&M."
"We want to be the only SEC program in the state of Texas," Bjork said. "There's a reason why Texas A&M left the Big 12 -- to be standalone, to have our own identity."
Bjork said he and fellow SEC athletic directors had not discussed bringing Texas and Oklahoma into the conference. According to the SEC bylaws regarding conference membership, "a vote of at least three-fourths of the members is required to extend an invitation for membership," or in this case, 11 of the 14 schools.
One potential obstacle for such a move, at least any time soon, is that Oklahoma and Texas signed a Big 12 grant-of-rights agreement, in which they granted their first- and second-tier media rights for football and men's basketball to the conference through June 30, 2025. That means the Big 12 would still own those schools' media rights for those sports -- even if they are no longer members -- until the agreement expires.
The Big 12's TV contracts with ESPN and Fox also expire in 2025. The Longhorn Network's deal with ESPN goes through 2031.
DanaDane said:#BREAKING:
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) July 22, 2021
Early next week, the @TexasLonghorns and @UofOklahoma will send a letter to the @Big12Conference stating that neither school will renew their media contracts when they expire in 2025.
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#BREAKING:
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) July 22, 2021
SOURCES: After notifying the @Big12Conference early next week, @TexasLonghorns and @UofOklahoma will petition the @SEC for membership.
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#BREAKING:
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) July 22, 2021
SOURCES: Insiders say that UT Board Chairman Kevin Eltife has long been concerned about the everchanging landscape of collegiate athletics and has worked with the university administration to position the @TexasLonghorns for success in the coming era.
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DanaDane said:
That timetable allows them to exit at the end of 2022-23.
Drama queen makes her predictable appearance.caesarscott said:
Losing ut and OU is an unmitigated disaster from which baylor sports cannot recover.
Why I think the Big 12 is going to collapse, and how Baylor should react https://t.co/dwylQ6xb68 pic.twitter.com/LQoisJyxKG
— Kendall (@kendallkaut) July 22, 2021
Once NIL became reality, this was inevitable.DanaDane said:#BREAKING:
— Jason Whitely (@JasonWhitely) July 22, 2021
Early next week, the @TexasLonghorns and @UofOklahoma will send a letter to the @Big12Conference stating that neither school will renew their media contracts when they expire in 2025.
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Analysis of Texas and Oklahomaβs potential move to the SEC. Sources indicate thereβs a lot of serious momentum, not a lot of meaningful SEC resistance (sorry, A&M) and a potential financial boon down the road. OU and Texas are tied tight in this. https://t.co/tWI91h6SCW
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) July 22, 2021
Oklahoma State with an assertive statement. pic.twitter.com/BybBf6nCFZ
— Ralph D. Russo (@ralphDrussoAP) July 21, 2021