SMU expresses interest in Big 12

[JonLP24]

SMU athletic director Steve Orsini believes his school is ready to join an automatic-qualifier BCS conference and has made his case to certain Big 12 officials.

"We feel it's time. We're ready," Orsini said Thursday, shortly after Texas A&M announced it has informed the Big 12 that it's looking at other conference options. "The college landscape is shifting. We're already a top academic institution and with the re-commitment of the university already in place, we can be a top athletics program nationally."

While the Big 12 makes the most sense, SMU president R. Gerald Turner said late Thursday afternoon that he believes the Mustangs, which currently compete in Conference USA, are ready to join any AQ conference interested in getting into the Dallas-Fort Worth market.

Orsini touted SMU's alumni base, which he said numbers about 40,000 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. And he noted the school has the facilities to play in a BCS conference.

http://espn.go.com/dallas/ncf/story/_/id/6895752/smu-mustangs-go-public-interest-joining-big-12

[madinmaryland]

1. I saw on CNN/SI that the Big 12 may be interested in Notre Dame.

[El Supremo]

3. And BYU

They both have their own network or TV deal.

Can you imagine The Horny Irish Cougar Network?

[madinmaryland]

5. *snort* ...

The Polygamist Pedophile network??

:hide:

[Condem]

2. Doesn't add anything to the Big 12.

Oklahoma will leave, then it's history.

[a la izquierda]

9. God willing.

We let Texas call the shots last year like whipped puppies.

[El Supremo]

4. If SMU Joins then they must get TCU too.

Maybe even Rice and Houston. The Southwest Conference will live again!

[Condem]

6. LOL, El.

TCU joined a MUCHO better conference. The Big East will be the Beast. I hear their going to travel by bus.

[KamaAina]

7. Because June Jones is SO ready for The Show

last time he was up there, he got waxed about 150-3. Of course, that could've been because he'd already abandoned UH for the Polo Ponies in his mind. :grr:

[pettypace]

8. Isn't SMU the one with the Bush library?

That'll be an interesting scenario - one Bush library school (A&M) leaves and is replaced with an inferior Bush library school.

[El Supremo]

10. The students, faculty and Methodist Church were against it.

But the Shrub's rich buddies called the shot especially Bush Butt Licker, Donald Evans