Big 12 (Longhorn Network) Bickering

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<p>Big 12 is back in the business of bickering</p>

<p>By Joe Walljasper
Columbia Daily Tribune
Wednesday, July 27, 2011</p>

<p>The honeymoon for the remarried Big 12 lasted about 13 months before the popular topic of blowing up the league was revisited.</p>

<p>The issue this time is the Longhorn Network, although it is just a new symptom of an old disease.</p>

<p>Conference Commissioner Dan Beebe is beholden to his Burnt Orange overlords — as were his predecessors, as will be his successors if the league lasts that long. Whatever keeps Texas happy keeps the Big 12 intact. But indulging every Texas power grab might drive disgruntled Big 12 schools into the arms of more equitable conferences, as we’ve already seen with Nebraska and the Big Ten.</p>

<p>Source: [Big</a> 12 is back in the business of bickering | The Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, Missouri](<a href=“http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2011/jul/27/back-in-the-business-of-bickering/]Big”>http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2011/jul/27/back-in-the-business-of-bickering/)</p>

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<p>Last Thursday A&M president R. Bowen Loftin described the Big 12 as being in a state of “uncertainty” because of the Longhorn Network.</p>

<p>Beebe argued Tuesday that Loftin was directing that word toward the upstart network and not the league. Beebe also said the Big 12 was not going to get “the benefit of the doubt” from observers concerning any issue over the next few years.</p>

<p>An ESPN reporter relayed to Beebe that an A&M official had said Monday that the official believed about “60 percent” of Aggies want to move to the SEC.</p>

<p>“I don’t know where he’s getting that from; that’s not the sense I have from those folks,” Beebe said. “That issue has been around that institution for a long time, but thankfully most of the coaches and administrators and others are adamant about wanting to be in the Big 12. (Athletic director) Bill Byrne expressed that yesterday.”</p>

<p>Beebe was asked what A&M fans would think 10 years from now if the Aggies were to bolt for the SEC in the immediate future.</p>

<p>“Then they would be saying 80 percent of our people (wanted) to stay in the Big 12,” Beebe said, smiling, “and thought that we made a bad decision.”</p>

<p>Read more: [Beebe:</a> UT network leads Big 12 into ‘uncharted waters’ | Longhorns | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle](<a href=“http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/college/texas/7670763.html#ixzz1TLm3cmXf]Beebe:”>http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/college/texas/7670763.html#ixzz1TLm3cmXf)</p>

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<p>Haha. </p>

<p>Should UT worry about the whining of some moron from Columbia, Missouri who is masquerading as a journalist? That is all sour grapes. There would not be a Big 12 without Texas and its dedication to the league. </p>

<p>Deal with it!</p>

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<p>An NFL model makes for a more successful conference than a MLB model.</p>