Texas A&M Athletics’ New Home In SEC Official

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Sep 262011
 
Texas A&M Athletics' New Home In SEC Official

From TheEagle.com by Robert Cessna. Texas A&M is hopeful that good things come to those who wait. The Southeastern Conference officially became a 13-team league Sunday by giving the Aggies an unconditional offer. It replaces a conditional one the league had given A&M on Sept. 6, and possibly indicates that all legal hurdles have been cleared for A&M to peacefully leave the Big 12. A&M’s move is effective starting in July with the Aggies participating in all sports in the 2012-13 academic year. “We are excited to begin competition in the nation’s premier athletic conference,” Texas A&M [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 7:03 pm

Oklahoman Source: Removal Of Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe Among OU’s Demands

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Sep 202011
 
Oklahoman Source: Removal Of Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe Among OU's Demands

A high-ranking source told The Oklahoman on Tuesday that OU wants hard and fast rules for Texas and the removal of Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe in order for the Sooners to stay in the conference. From NewsOk.com. The University of Oklahoma is considering remaining in the Big 12, but only in a “reformed” version of the conference that includes hard and fast rules for Texas’ Longhorn Network and removal of Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe, a high-ranking Big 12 source told The Oklahoman on Tuesday. OU president David Boren said Monday the Sooners would [Comment or Read the Rest...]

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Tentative Plan For Mizzou To Join SEC, Auburn Would Move To East, Sources Say

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Sep 202011
 
Tentative Plan For Mizzou To Join SEC, Auburn Would Move To East, Sources Say

From Al.com. The Southeastern Conference and the University of Missouri have informally agreed that, barring new developments, the school will join the league and that Auburn University will move to the SEC East Division, according to two people familiar with the discussions. A majority of presidents has endorsed the informal agreement, the sources said. The league already plans to add Texas A&M as its 13th member, provided potential legal challenges from some remaining Big 12 members disappear. Missouri, also a member of the Big 12, would be the 14th member of the SEC. A timetable [Comment or Read the Rest...]

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9/20/11 Daily Preview From The Paul Finebaum Radio Network

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Sep 202011
 
9/20/11 Daily Preview From The Paul Finebaum Radio Network

MIZZOU TO SEC? The Kansas City Star is reporting today that The Southeastern Conference has an offer on the table for Missouri to join its league, and SEC officials are willing to wait for an answer from Missouri until the future of the Big 12 is decided. Considering the threat of legal action against Texas A&M and the SEC raised by Baylor, Missouri and the SEC would prefer to keep an offer to MU under wraps until the Big 12 actually ceases to be a viable entity. We’ll update the latest on the realignment musical [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 2:38 pm

9/13/11 Daily Preview From The Paul Finebaum Radio Network

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Sep 132011
 
9/13/11 Daily Preview From The Paul Finebaum Radio Network

“When Texas A&M joins our conference, we don’t have immediate plans for a 14th member….” Those were the comments yesterday from SEC Commissioner Mike Slive. Slive said the SEC remains “optimistic” Texas A&M will become a member and the league has started to look at schedules for 2012-13 involving 13 teams. “We aren’t thinking in terms of numbers. We think about the strength of the SEC and the attractiveness of Texas A&M as an institution.” Last week, the SEC voted to accept A&M provided the school wasn’t entangled in legal issues from other Big 12 [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 11:56 am

Statement from Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin

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Sep 072011
 
Statement from Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin

Courtesy: Texas A&M Athletics Release: 09/07/2011 President R. Bowen Loftin, Texas A&M University Statement Regarding Conference Situation “We are certainly pleased with the action taken last night by the presidents and chancellors of the Southeastern Conference to unanimously accept Texas A&M as the league’s 13th member. However, this acceptance is conditional, and we are disappointed in the threats made by one of the Big 12 member institutions to coerce Texas A&M into staying in Big 12 Conference. These actions go against the commitment that was made by this university and the Big 12 on Sept. [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 11:53 am

Texas A&M Plans To Leave Big 12 By July 2012

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Aug 312011
 
Texas A&M Plans To Leave Big 12 By July 2012

From NbcSports.MsNbc.com by Kristie Rieken. HOUSTON – The official Texas A&M fight song includes a line that bids farewell to Texas, “so long to the orange and white.” By this time next year, Texas A&M may have said goodbye to a lot more than its storied, century-old rivalry with Texas. Texas A&M announced Wednesday that it will leave the Big 12 Conference by July 2012 if it can find another home, preferably in the Southeastern Conference. The decision could set off another round of conference realignment in college sports and it raises questions about the future of the [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 12:33 pm

Big 12 Breathes Easier As SEC Announces No Intention To Expand – For Now

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Aug 142011
 
Big 12 Breathes Easier As SEC Announces No Intention To Expand - For Now

From DesMoinesRegister.com. The Southeastern Conference said Sunday it’s sticking with its 12-school membership for now. A statement from University of Florida President Bernie Machen, the chairman of the league’s presidents and chancellors committee, said the group met Sunday and “reaffirmed our satisfaction with the present 12 institutional alignment.” Machen said no action was taken regarding Texas A&M or any other schools. However, Machen didn’t close the door on future growth. “We recognize, however, that future conditions may make it advantageous to expand the number of institutions in the league. We discussed criteria and process associated [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 4:36 pm

D-Day Appears Imminent For 10-Member Big 12

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Aug 112011
 
D-Day Appears Imminent For 10-Member Big 12

From OrangeBloods.com by Chip Brown. August 22 appears to be D-Day for the 10-member Big 12 as we know it. Three sources close to the situation said Texas A&M’s regents board will meet on August 22 to deliberate and likely vote on an application to join the Southeastern Conference as early as 2012. Texas A&M System spokesman Jason Cook denied reports that A&M has already agreed to join the SEC. “There’s no agreement in principle, nothing,” Cook told Orangebloods.com. Two sources said the SEC presidents are being gathered Saturday in an emergency meeting to address the [Comment or Read the Rest...]

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Paul Finebaum: Clowney Upset Other Schools

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Feb 152011
 
Paul Finebaum: Clowney Upset Other Schools

From DanPatrick.com. SEC radio host Paul Finebaum joined the show to talk about Jadeveon Clowney signing with South Carolina and more. Finebaum said that the Clowney signing upset a lot of people. Finebaum said Clowney insulted Nick Saban (called him short), and said some unkind things about other schools. Finebaum commented on Urban Meyer insinuating he couldn’t handle some of the behind-the-scenes stuff in the SEC. ”I think Florida plays pretty straight. … For the most part he ran a mostly clean program, while other teams in this league are not,” Finebaum said. Finebaum said [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan Admin at 6:06 pm

SEC Football & Oversigning: Why It’s Not A Problem

 Big 10, Florida Gators, NCAA, Ohio State, Recruiting, SEC  12 Responses »
Feb 102011
 
SEC Football & Oversigning: Why It’s Not A Problem

From SaturdayDownSouth.com  by Beau Cooper . Envy, thy name is Big 10 Football. I hate to write an article about a problem that doesn’t exist. It’s absurd, pointless, bizarre . . . take your pick. However, there’s a (non)issue that’s recently picked up a head of steam in the college football world and it’s called “oversigning.” I’ll do my best to clear the air on why oversigning isn’t immoral or illegal. It doesn’t matter how successful you are, you’ll always have detractors, and often, the more successful you are, the more detractors you have. The [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 11:05 pm

Tennessee Titans And Head Coach Jeff Fisher Parting Ways

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Jan 272011
 
Tennessee Titans And Head Coach Jeff Fisher Parting Ways

From SportsIllustrated.cnn.com by Don Banks. In an unexpected development in what already has been a turbulent offseason in Tennessee, the Titans and Jeff Fisher, the NFL’s longest-tenured head coach, are preparing to part ways, SI.com learned Thursday afternoon. The Titans officially confirmed the news in a one-sentence press release Thursday evening. It remains uncertain if Fisher’s departure will be termed a firing, a resignation or a mutual parting of ways. Fisher was said to be in the process of negotiating the terms of his departure with Titans owner Bud Adams. According to a league source, only Adams, [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 6:38 pm

How Twitter Slowly Destroyed Jay Cutler

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Jan 252011
 
How Twitter Slowly Destroyed Jay Cutler

From SocialTimes.com Posted by Anthony Marcusa. Yesterday Jay Cutler lost twice:  On the field and online. His poor performance early in the NFC Championship game between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers was overshadowed by his apparent injury, a topic that the blogosphere jumped on and attacked with the fury and ruthlessness of a swarm of piranhas. Watching a major nationally televised sporting event is a more engaging experience than ever for any viewer. In an instant, anyone can find out what everyone else around the world is thinking about something that everyone is [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 4:45 pm

Gene Wojciechowski: The Cam Newton Affair Still Stinks

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Jan 212011
 
Gene Wojciechowski: The Cam Newton Affair Still Stinks

From espn.go.com  by Gene Wojciechowski. Cam Newton is no longer on the Auburn campus, but the stench from his father Cecil’s pay-for-play scheme and bungled cover-up still hovers over college football likes gases over a landfill. The smell has Auburn, Mississippi State, the Southeastern Conference and even the Heisman Trophy Trust holding their noses. And depending on whether the NCAA has completed its investigation or not, perhaps its breath, too. There remains no closure, no neat bow on the Newton box. Cam Newton has his Heisman and now his freedom — he declared for the NFL [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 2:30 pm

Auburn Quarterback Cam Newton Confirms Entry Into 2011 NFL Draft

 Auburn Tigers, BCS, Bowl Championship Series, Cam Newton, Gene Chizik, Gus Malzahn, NCAA, NFL, SEC  No Responses »
Jan 132011
 
Auburn Quarterback Cam Newton Confirms Entry Into 2011 NFL Draft

 From LaLate.com. LOS ANGELES – An entrance of Cam Newton into the NFL Draft 2011 has long been speculated. Tonight Cam Newton confirmed he will enter the 2011 NFL draft. Cam Newton’s declaring for the NFL draft comes after a season of scandals and triumphs, an NCAA scandal investigation and a BCS Championship. Cam Newton’s decision to enter the NFL draft was two days before the league’s deadline. Yet for months, most have put Cam Newton include LALATE as a first-round pick. He ended the season with twenty rushing touchdowns, thirty passing touchdowns, 1473 yards [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 10:48 pm

Meet the Texas Longhorns: The Biggest Coward Program in College Football

 Alabama, Alabama Crimson Tide, Big 12, Guests, Oklahoma Sooners, Pac 10, SEC, Texas A&M Aggies, Texas Longhorns  1 Response »
Jun 162010
 

From FanHouse.com by Clay Travis Conference realignment died because the Texas football program is made up of cowards who are aware that the Longhorns program can’t compete at the top levels of the SEC or the Pac-10. That’s what your takeaway from the past two weeks of conference realignment really needs to be. Yep, the state that values masculine swagger more than any other in the nation features a top football program that is yella.All hat, no cattle. The Longhorns had offers to move on to compete with top echelon talent in the SEC and the [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 9:42 pm

Finebaum: Texas A&M Showed Heart in its Brief SEC Courtship

 Big 10, Big 12, Expansion, NCAA Conferences, Notre Dame, Pac 10, Paul Finebaum, SEC, Texas A&M Aggies, Texas Longhorns  No Responses »
Jun 152010
 

From Al.com By Paul Finebaum Would I be out of order to ask a simple but nagging question: Who died and made the University of Texas king of the college football universe? This is a school with one national championship in the last 40 years. And some of the biggest boys in college football — yeah, that includes you Oklahoma — are following the Longhorns like lambs to slaughter as if they don’t have an alternative in the world. Thank goodness for Texas A&M. Thank goodness a school in the rough and tumble, hard-scrabbled world [Comment or Read the Rest...]

 Posted by Finebaum Fan at 10:33 am

OrangeBloods.com: Remaining schools in Big 12 close to saving league

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Jun 142010
 

 From Orangebloods.com By Chip Brown In a bombshell development that could bring a halt to seismic changes in college realignment, sources tell Orangebloods.com  Texas is at the table with the 10 remaining Big 12 schools working on a TV deal put forth by commissioner Dan Beebe that would hold the conference together. If there’s consensus to the deal, and it appears there is, it could be announced as early as Monday, sources said. According to sources familiar with the deal, Texas stands to earn between $20 million and $25 million in television revenue, including money [Comment or Read the Rest...]

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