The latest breaking news in the ongoing conference realignment saga is that the Pac 12 has finally confirmed that they will not be expanding, at this time. The initial reaction from a lot of Texas Tech fans is that the lifeboat is gone for the Red Raiders and athletics, as we know it in Lubbock, is dead...
The Lubbock Chamber of Commerce took to social media on Friday, July 30th to tell how the Perryman Group had conducted a study on the economic impact of losing major Lubbock college athletics.
The Big 12 alleges ESPN acted with "tortious interference" in seeking to cause the demise of the conference, while working with the American Athletic Conference to expand.
On Thursday, July 22nd, Texas Tech Chancellor Tedd Mitchell issued a statement concerning recent reports of University of Texas and University of Oklahoma wanting to leave the Big 12.
The Big 12 and SEC are absolutely stacked as conferences when it comes to Baseball. The Red Raiders, TCU, and Texas are all in the top 10 according to D1baseball.com and the SEC has Florida, Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, and Arkansas in the same poll's top 10...
After weeks of rumors, Texas A&M is set to leave the Big 12 and to join the SEC, the league said on Sunday. The move will go into effect next July.
“We are excited to begin competition in the nation’s premier athletic conference,” Texas A&M President R. Bowen Loftin said in a statement.
Texas A&M officially told the Big 12 conference that they will apply to a new conference as soon as the end of the 2012 spring sports season. This comes just a month after Texas A&M and SEC talks began. Hey Aggies...don't let the door hit your ugly girlfriends on the way out!