[NU Sports] Texas is already out.....

[AJWDBW at aol.com]

This from a friend of mine who is a graduate of University of Texas. It is  
a quote from "True Orange", a subscription newsletter made available to UT 
Texas  grads and others with $95 annually.
 
Don Williams 
C55
 
 
CONFERENCE SWITCH? I don't think anything is going to happen right  away
in the conference breakups and shakeups, but I have been told that  Texas
Athletic Directot DeLoss Dodds has an interest at some point in  aligning
the Big 12 and the Pack 10 and maybe adding a couple of teams.
If  he didn't come up with the idea, he should have. When you put Texas
and  California in the same league, you have by far the two largest
states in the  union and lots and lots of TV sets.
The plan would be for the Northern teams  to play the Northern teams and
the Southern teams to play the Southern teams.  As it stands now, it
would be a 12-team south and a 10-team north, but a  couple of schools,
like Brigham Young or Boise State could be added to make  it 12 and 12.
The good and bad thing about such a move is that it would leave  room for
only one non-confereence game. That's good because Texas has to  buy
games with lots of money for lesser schools to come to Austin and  get
slaughtered. But it's bad because coaches would like to have more  than
one warmup game before getring into conference play.
The reason  athletic officials would like it is that no one gets left
behind and it would  lead to a much more lucrative TV contract.
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