Mr. Big12isDead Chip Brown of Orangebloods.com – who originally broke this Big12-PAC10 drama – is now reporting via Twitter that:
Orangebloods.com: According to sources, Texas will announce as early as today that UT will commit to a 10-member Big 12.
From the Orangebloods.com article titled Sources say Texas will commit to 10-member Big 12
In a bombshell development that could bring a halt to seismic changes in college realignment, sources tell Orangebloods.com Texas has been convinced by a plan presented by commissioner Dan Beebe to stay in a 10-member Big 12.
UT officials are expected to announce their decision to remain in the Big 12 as early as Monday.
Such a move would appear to end a courtship between Texas and the Pac-10, which all but seemed solidified as of Friday when Nebraska announced it was heading to the Big Ten and Colorado had a press conference with its new commissioner – Larry Scott of the Pac-10.
Let’s hope Chip Brown’s sources on this are good. If so, this sounds great for Baylor.
Somehow I bet there won’t be a name change if the Big 12 sticks with 10 teams and the Big Ten manages to pick up no more teams.
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This will make my wife soooo happy. I’m glad that the Big12 isn’t being dismembered.
Tim
Great, another conference with no clue about the meaning of numbers. The Big Ten has twelve members. The Big Twelve has ten members. The Pac Ten has eleven members. What’s next? Will my wife fuss at me if she sends me to the store for a dozen eggs and I come back with ten — would that be wrong? Couldn’t I just claim that I was confused by stuff I was seeing on ESPN?