Texas A&M To Seek Affiliation With Another Athletic conference

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News Release: Texas A&M to Seek New Conference Affiliation - Texas A&M University - College Station, TX

NEWS RELEASE - August 31, 2011

COLLEGE STATION, Texas – Texas A&M University today officially notified the Big 12 Conference that the institution will submit an application to join another athletic conference. Should this application be accepted, Texas A&M will end its membership in the Big 12 Conference effective June 30, 2012.

"After much thought and consideration, and pursuant to the action of the (Texas A&M University System) Board of Regents authorizing me to take action related to Texas A&M University's athletic conference alignment, I have determined it is in the best interest of Texas A&M to make application to join another athletic conference," President R. Bowen Loftin wrote to Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe in the letter dated August 31, 2011.

"We appreciate the Big 12's willingness to engage in a dialogue to end our relationship through a mutually agreeable settlement," Loftin added. "We, too, desire that this process be as amicable and prompt as possible and result in a resolution of all outstanding issues, including mutual waivers by Texas A&M and the conference on behalf of all the remaining members."

 

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[Forty_Sixand2]

I heard this somewhere a month or so ago.......




.....SportsHoopla - ALWAYS the first to know

 

[UTVolCountry]

figured

 

[WestEndVol]

SOON -_-

 

[KansasSooner]

What happens if no conference offers A&M an invite? Do they look like fools or what?

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

They would not have left without an invite on the table. Also, there is no way that aTm is not invited to another conference. They are a huge draw in a huge football state with a giant loyal fanbase.

 

[yeodonie]

Time to come West OU, OSU, TT and UT....

 

[OregonDucks]

Time to come West OU, OSU, TT and UT....

no I do not want Texas in the Pac-12. Everything they are apart of falls apart.

 

[yeodonie]

no I do not want Texas in the Pac-12. Everything they are apart of falls apart.

fine I'd take Baylor or even SMU. Maybe both and we can drop Colorado.

 

[OregonDucks]

drop Colorado and pick up Helen Kellers dedicated school for the difficulty impaired.

 

[yeodonie]

drop Colorado and pick up Helen Kellers dedicated school for the difficulty impaired.

Sounds fair. I've never understood WTF we were thinking going with Colorado.

 

[OregonDucks]

Sounds fair. I've never understood WTF we were thinking going with Colorado.

i don't know that Denver market can't be that valuable. if anything those people are Bronco fans and probably dont follow a consistant 5-7 team in Boulder.

 

[Big Red Said]

How would this headline shock the CFB nation...

"aTm pulls a fumblerooski and scores a win as they land in The Big Ten Conference"

Although this news is huge... the biggest shocker is that OU, Okla State and Missouri have agreed to join aTm in this move, making the Big Ten the first Super Conference with 16 teams.

LMAO... I am just stirring up shit...:ss: but that would throw a wrench into the conference realigment process... and the Big 12... well.... not sure what would come of it...

 

[OregonDucks]

How would this headline shock the CFB nation...

"aTm pulls a fumblerooski and scores a win as they land in The Big Ten Conference"

Although this news is huge... the biggest shocker is that OU, Okla State and Missouri have agreed to join aTm in this move, making the Big Ten the first Super Conference with 16 teams.

LMAO... I am just stirring up shit...:ss: but that would throw a wrench into the conference realigment process... and the Big 12... well.... not sure what would come of it...

Texas would just add a bunch of scrubs that they can bully around and continue to win conference title after conference title and ending up in a BCS bowl game each year. Finally on paper, living up to it's supposed dominance.