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Adding post-season bowl game with SEC a brilliant move by Big XII
This time last season, college football fans and media were writing off the Big XII conference as all but dead and gone. In just two years, the conference lost four schools to other conferences; the Nebraska Cornhuskers ran off to the Big 10 and the Colorado Buffaloes, perhaps afraid of being left out, left for [...]
TweetFour Oklahoma Sooner Football Players Suspended
Four members of the Oklahoma Sooners football program have been suspended indefinitely for a violation of team rules. The players in question are three wide receivers: Jaz Reynolds , Trey Franks, and Kameel Jackson. Defensive back Quentin Hayes is the fourth member of the program to be suspended. Reynolds, a junior wide receiver, was expected [...]
TweetKameel Jackson Announces Transfer From Oklahoma To Texas A&M, Aggies Aware?
Freshman wideout Kameel Jackson’s produced decent numbers (12 catches, 165 yards) for the Sooners in 2011 but it’s his use of social media that’s drawing headlines during the offseason. Jackson told the Oklahoma Rivals site that he was transferring and the destination was Texas A&M. He tweeted out confirmation: The move wouldn’t shock considering Jackson [...]
TweetBig 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby Meets His Makers
New Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby answered the tough questions during his introductory press conference, like whether he was in the bag for Texas. As long as DeLoss Dodds is the athletic director in Austin and the Longhorns continue printing money, there’s always going to be whispers about who runs the show. All the former [...]
TweetBarry Switzer Thinks West Virginia is the Favorite to Win Big 12
There’s little question West Virginia will face a new set of challenges when it begins its first season of play in the Big 12 this fall. The Mountaineers will be have to travel further to venues they’ve never played in, not to mention, they’ll face a tougher week-in-and-week out schedule than the one they played [...]
TweetTexas Tech Looks To Join Texas, Oklahoma With Television Network
If a Big 12 member school wants to keep up these days, then your institution had better be researching the possibilities of a campus network. Texas and ESPN launched Longhorn Network last summer amid the riches of a $300 million contract and 17 people capable of viewing it. Oklahoma and Fox Sports agreed on a [...]
TweetBob Bowlsby Accepts Offer to Serve as Big XII’s New Commissioner
Earlier today, Rant Sports reported that the Big XII conference had extended an offer to the Stanford University athletic director, Bobby Bowlsby, to serve as the conference’s new commissioner. It has just been reported that Bowlsby has indeed accepted the offer. The Big XII has been looking to gain some stability after suffering a tumultuous [...]
TweetBig 12 Football Coaches in Bobby Petrino’s Situation
As the college football offseason plods on and most of the South waits for word on Bobby Petrino‘s replacement, it begs the question in Big 12 territory; how entrenched is each head coach? Nothing about the scandal in Fayetteville made me believe it would have cost Petrino his job had he not hired her. That [...]
TweetDallas City Council Approves $25.5 Million Cotton Bowl Renovation
The Cotton Bowl Stadium at the Fair Park complex in Dallas, Texas is one of the most legendary venues in college football, if not all of collegiate sports. Home to the Cotton Bowl game– previously a New Year’s Day tradition, but pushed farther back recently thanks to the BCS– the stadium has been in dire [...]
TweetWest Virginia’s Oliver Luck Calling For More Big 12 Expansion
West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck believes the Big 12 should seriously considering expanding. ESPN/ABC and the conference are currently negotiating an extension (for 10 teams) of first-tier television rights with escalators in place. Add some combination of Louisville, BYU and Cincinnati and the annual payouts per school increase. The Big 12 will focus initially [...]
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