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Finding a Deal to Save Big 12
Published: 7/24/2011 9:54 AM
Last Modified: 7/24/2011 9:54 AM

It took barely a year for the Big 12 Conference to appear once again in danger of falling apart.
Texas A&M is the most vocal but there is concern all around the league about the new Texas Longhorn Network.
Texas will need to make sure it calms the fears of the other nine members of the Big 12 or it risks tearing apart the league, and as a result, the deal for its own television network.
The biggest incentive for Texas to keep the Big 12 together last year was approval to form its own network. Texas got $300 million over 20 years from ESPN to start the Longhorn Network.
Now that the details are coming out several schools are not happy.
Texas A&M is apparently the protest leader and there are some rumors the Aggies are once again interested in moving to the Southeastern Conference.
Most rumors have A&M and Oklahoma going to the SEC.
That would leave Texas in a league, either the Big 12 or Pac-12 or as independent, without its two biggest rivals.
We expect Texas to do what it needs to do to keep together its television deal at the same time figuring out a way to make it easier for OU and A&M to accept.



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Tulscl (last year)
WELL THERE WE GO AGAIN, GOT TO BLAME THIS ON TEXAS OF COARSE AGAIN. SPOKEN BY A TRUE RED SOONER.
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