Oklahoma and Texas get the green light to bolt Big 12
TULSA, Okla./AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) buy canada goose jacket cheap The landscape of college sports could be Canada Goose Online gearing up for a seismic shift after the presidents of Oklahoma and Texas received the green light on Monday to withdraw from the Big 12 conference.
Presidents David Boren of Oklahoma and Bill Powers of Texas said, however, they canada goose clearance sale were not yet ready to begin negotiations to jump to other conferences.
Oklahoma, currently ranked No. 1 in the nation in football, and Texas, among the nation top programs, cheap canada goose uk acted after three other schools Texas A Nebraska and Canada Goose Coats On Sale Colorado either left the Big 12 or said they intended to.
Asked whether they planned to start negotiations or stay in the league, neither president would commit to specific plans. Nor did they canada goose uk shop say they would stay Canada Goose Outlet loyal to canada goose store the Big 12.
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Boren was similarly evasive, saying he wanted long term stability in an athletic conference without dramas.
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Leaving the Big 12 is not a foregone conclusion, he said, but he made clear the conference as it stands now is stable.
one of the things we weighing can it be made stable? And the other things we have to weigh are what are canada goose coats on sale the buy canada goose jacket kinds of opportunities might be present for us in the Pac 12 if we decide to go, Boren said.
ATTEMPTS TO LURE The Pac 12 conference is reportedly trying to put together a deal to lure Oklahoma. sports powers depart the conference, college sports analysts said the Big 12 conference would probably dissolve, and the remaining members would rush to align with other conferences.
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The scramble is underway not only in the Midwest and Western regions of canada goose uk black friday the country.
Over the weekend, Pittsburgh and Syracuse, canada goose uk outlet currently members of the Big East conference, applied for and received approval to join the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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Colleges are scrambling in pursuit of lucrative television broadcast contracts. At stake are billions of dollars of canada goose clearance royalties canadagooseoutlet4online from networks such as ESPN and FOX Sports for broadcasting popular college Canada Goose Jackets football games.
Sports economists say being part of a powerful and relevant conference is vital to a university, which is why colleges across the nation are in flux right now when it comes to conference membership.
It means better negotiating power in lucrative television contracts, said Robert Boland, professor of sports economics at New York University Tisch Center.
As popular as it is to go to the games, the television audience for college football in the United States Canada Goose Parka is huge as well. A total of 37.7 million fans tuned in to just four networks ABC, ESPN, Fox and Versus for games on Saturday, September 10.
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