{"id":2387,"date":"2016-05-04T22:35:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T03:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2016-09-20T00:38:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T05:38:35","slug":"univ-of-texas-will-be-the-death-of-the-big-12-as-soonerscowboys-will-scoot-to-big-10sec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/?p=2387","title":{"rendered":"Univ. of Texas will be the death of the Big 12 as Sooners\/Cowboys will scoot to Big 10\/SEC"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"maxresdefault<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

After reading about the pressure the Univ. of Texas is putting on fellow Big 12 members Texas Christian Univ. and\u00a0Texas Tech Univ., if the Oklahoma Sooners and it\u2019s fellow state Big 12 cohort Oklahoma State bolt the league, you can have the Horns in Austin to thank.\u00a0 Current talk has the big school in Austin pressuring its fellow league member from approving a vote, a positive one, in increasing the membership of the Big 12 to twelve or more schools.\u00a0 This has been reported out of Cincinnati, where the Cincinnati Univ. presides.\u00a0 The Bearcats are one of a short list\u00a0of schools wanting to join the Power Five conference.<\/p>\n

According to the Cincinnati Enquirer,<\/span><\/u><\/a> Texas is \u201cbelieved to be influencing Texas Tech\u2019s and Texas Christian\u2019s\u00a0decisions to also be reluctant to\u00a0expansion.\u00a0 UT is using its pull because of the Big 12\u2019s rules regarding expanding the conference. If the conference was to expand, there would need to be greater than 75 percent support for the idea. With 10 teams in the Big 12, that means eight yes votes would be needed and seven teams could vote yes on expansion without the three Texas schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

Texas and Texas Tech have been close members in the same conference since 1956 as the school in Lubbock follows the lead of the larger school.\u00a0 Like being the little sister in my opinion.\u00a0 As for TCU, the support by Texas was\u00a0 a primary reason that the Frogs were brought in the\u00a0Big 12. They too\u00a0look to Texas as a big brother.\u00a0 The fact that if the Big 12 stays at ten institutions and the Univ. Texas continues to hold on to their \u201cLonghorn Network\u201d (as the rest of the conference except the Texas and the two sibling programs) and not turn it into a Big 12 Network, the Big 12 is going to evaporate into the air as something of the past.<\/p>\n

Will TCU and Tech find a way to travel with Texas when OU and OSU leave for greener pastures of the SEC or Big 10?\u00a0 How will the little programs in Lubbock and Fort.Worth like their possible destination to a conference with the likes of Rice, Houston, and\/or Colorado State?<\/p>\n

The reality of the situation is that if the Big 12 doesn\u2019t go to twelve member and the Longhorn Network stays as is, OU and OSU will be members of a conference not with Texas.<\/p>\n

Feature Photo:\u00a0 Photo: Tom Reel \/San Antonio Express-News<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/path><\/svg><\/i> \"Loading\"<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 After reading about the pressure the Univ. of Texas is putting on fellow…<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/path><\/svg><\/i> \"Loading\"<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[667,664,199,666,536,665],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-football","category-college-sports","tag-big-10-conference","tag-big-12-conference","tag-sec","tag-texas-christian-univ","tag-texas-tech-univ","tag-univ-of-okla"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":true,"total_views":181,"today_views":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredsportsextra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}