excerpt:
Food for thought: The first steps toward creation of today's Big 12
began with talk of a scheduling alliance between schools from the
Southwest Conference and the Big Eight.
Discussions led to a few
football games in the early 1990s and, by the fall of 1996, teams from
both leagues were playing under the Big 12 umbrella.
No one is
saying history will repeat itself if the Big 12 and ACC lock arms in
some type of future scheduling agreement, as Big 12 athletic directors
discussed, and unanimously endorsed, last week.
But it could. All
it would take is another round of Big Ten or SEC expansion into ACC
country that causes existing members or Louisville, an ACC pledge for
2014, to chart an alternate path and seek shelter in a more stable Big
12.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/02/03/4597276/expansion-could-be-on-big-12-horizon.html
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/02/03/4597276/expansion-could-be-on-big-12-horizon.html#storylink=cpy
Food for thought: The first steps toward creation of today's Big 12
began with talk of a scheduling alliance between schools from the
Southwest Conference and the Big Eight.
Discussions led to a few
football games in the early 1990s and, by the fall of 1996, teams from
both leagues were playing under the Big 12 umbrella.
No one is
saying history will repeat itself if the Big 12 and ACC lock arms in
some type of future scheduling agreement, as Big 12 athletic directors
discussed, and unanimously endorsed, last week.
But it could. All
it would take is another round of Big Ten or SEC expansion into ACC
country that causes existing members or Louisville, an ACC pledge for
2014, to chart an alternate path and seek shelter in a more stable Big
12.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/02/03/4597276/expansion-could-be-on-big-12-horizon.html
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/02/03/4597276/expansion-could-be-on-big-12-horizon.html#storylink=cpy
