In every boat all eyes were glued on the Titanic. Her tall masts, the four big funnels stood out sharp and black in the clear blue night. The bright promenade decks, the long rows of portholes all blazed with light. … It seemed impossible that anything could be wrong with this great ship; yet there they were out on the sea, and there she was, well down at the head. Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
— Walter Lord, A Night to Remember
The Oklahoma Board of Regents has put out the agenda for Monday’s meeting (PDF; see second-to-last page).
The Board of Regents will discuss potential legal ramifications of athletic conference realignment options and/or consider new athletic conference membership and take any appropriate action. An executive session may be proposed pursuant to Section 307B.4 of the Oklahoma Open Meetings Act.
The Tulsa World reminds us this happened before:
A&M regents called a special meeting and authorized university president R. Bowen Loftin to act on realignment, basically authorizing him to process the Aggies’ transition from the Big 12 to the SEC. Two weeks later, Loftin announced A&M had withdrawn from the Big 12. Last week, SEC presidents voted to accept A&M as the league’s 13th member, contingent on the resolution of legal issues involving the other nine Big 12 schools.