re: Maryland approves move to Big TEN

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The B1G is trying to keep regional sanity.

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this is a pretty unfair bash of the Big 12. We have whittled down to 5 major conferences, and it might further decrease to 4. Of the 4, three are solid: the North (Big Ten), the South (SEC), and the West (Pac-12). The fight is for the scraps, and the only way the Big 12 can survive is going outside of its footprint, as the three major conference have all shrunk the Big 12's footprint by stealing a team.

Really, all conferences make geographic sense save one, and that's the one that's been getting raided. How about we cut the Big 12 some slack?

And conference realignment did not end A&M-Texas. The fact that so many SEC schools are able to maintain an out of conference annual rivalry against an instate foe shows that this is just an excuse. The series ended to "punish" A&M, as the Ags offered to keep it going. It was childish picking up your ball and going home.