sip: You're saying that Texas did not approach the PAC-10 first, built the proposal with them for a Big 12 South Migration to the PAC-10, and then the other University President's were contacted by Larry Scott?

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In the fall of 2009, we began to hear rumors about UT meeting and talking with the Pac-10. I was actually in Austin in December 2009 meeting with (University of Texas president) Bill Powers. At that point, I had asked everyone but him to leave the room so we could talk privately. I asked him if there was any conversation between him and the Pac-10 and his answer basically was, “I can’t talk about that.” The next month, he was in College Station, and we met in my office. I had the same question, and he gave me the same answer.
Go forward to the April (2010) timeframe…I got a call from (Pac-10 commissioner) Larry Scott indicating he wanted to come see me. Scott shows up here, and we have a meeting. Basically they had been working for months, and he had schedules of not just football but, basketball, soccer and baseball, and they had been working hard on this thing. He did a presentation for us on here’s how we are going to do this. I obviously began discussing this privately with the Board of Regents, and the basic direction I got from them was, “Look, we’ll probably get an offer from the Pac-10 to go join them along with five other schools in the Big 12.” The chairman of the board said to me, “One option is no option. You better figure out what things A&M could do besides follow Texas and other schools to the Pac-10.”

I would appreciate it if (I assume) the University you graduated from would quit acting like this all never happened.

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Posted by cattus

Member since Jan 2009

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Posted on 10/26/11 at 9:39 am to NonregAg09

It's simply geographically stupid.

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Posted by ATX Horn

Member since Aug 2011

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Posted on 10/26/11 at 10:31 am to NonregAg09

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sip: You're saying that Texas did not approach the PAC-10 first, built the proposal with them for a Big 12 South Migration to the PAC-10, and then the other University President's were contacted by Larry Scott?

First, the sip thing makes you come off like a 12 yr old girl..maybe you are a girl, but at least grow up. Second, I won't pretend that I can accurately explain how everything went down when MANY of the schools around the country were starting to piece together plans during the intial talks of conference realignment. Do you have trusted first hand knowledge of the situation or do you just believe everything you hear/read from an Aggie perspective? Your initial post seemed to imply that Texas took hostage of the other schools and were brokering a deal to take them against their will to the PAC 10.

We would have done just fine trying to broker a deal for ourselves which is what NU, CO, A&M and now MU have done, right?

I wonder what the O/U is on how many seasons it will take before you find your SEC scapegoat for all the things that dislike or don't go your way?

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