{"id":240,"date":"2011-08-31T21:39:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T02:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2011-09-01T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T22:05:09","slug":"conferencepocalypse-ii-the-guns-of-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/conferencepocalypse-ii-the-guns-of-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Conferencepocalypse II: The Guns of August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas offered a Big 12 Network; Texas A&amp;M refused. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaggybevo.com\/board\/showthread.php\/95664-Texas-A-amp-M-SECession-Timeline\">Texas reportedly offered a Lone Star Network; A&amp;M refused.<\/a> Texas created the Longhorn Network, just like everyone expected, and now A&amp;M has gone off the deep end. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/blogs\/content\/shared-gen\/blogs\/austin\/aggies\/entries\/2011\/08\/31\/am_officially_withdraws_from_t.html?cxtype=rss_news\">Austin American-Statesman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Texas A&amp;M notified the Big 12 conference Wednesday morning that it is seeking league membership elsewhere.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>President R. Bowen Loftin sent a letter to commissioner Dan Beebe to alert him of the school\u2019s decision. Once the school finds another league &#8211; it\u2019ll be the Southeastern Conference &#8211; the Aggies will cut their Big 12 membership June, 30, 2012. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The move by the Aggies, which is not unexpected, could cause a monumental shift in the college football landscape if the Big 12 fails to come up with an adequate replacement team. <strong>The Big 12, which started competition in 1996, could implode<\/strong>, allowing its marquee teams like Texas and Oklahoma to be free agents to align with other top conferences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A 13-team SEC would have to be looking to poach another team from somewhere else, potentially setting off a chain reaction. And if there is a game of musical chairs, Iowa State isn&#8217;t going to have one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20110831\/SPORTS020602\/308310087\/ISU-s-AD-tries-to-calm-fans-staffers\">Jamie Pollard is being, um, nonchalant<\/a>: \u201cIt is unfortunate that Texas A&amp;M is moving forward with plans to depart the Big 12.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunate.&#8221; Can we panic now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas offered a Big 12 Network; Texas A&amp;M refused. Texas reportedly offered a Lone Star Network; A&amp;M refused. Texas created the Longhorn Network, just like everyone expected, and now A&amp;M has gone off the deep end. Austin American-Statesman: Texas A&amp;M &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/conferencepocalypse-ii-the-guns-of-august\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}