What does Baylor do now?

Cash their checks from the Big XII, that is all Baylor wanted, to survive in an AQ conference and now they have.
 
SEC obviously felt threatened by the new acting Big 12 commissioner, whose reputation of pulling folks together and stating that he'd be talking to a&m pres., decided to take the BU threat and get aggie in asap, before they could be talked out of it. BU still has options...not good options, but options none the less.
 
Last year, in June, President Loftin made strong and glowing statements on binding the Big 12 together -- after CU and Nebraska were out -- and I believe that led to the revised and extended tier 1 and tier 2 contracts we now have. Here's the link to the June 14, 2010 letter. It's staggering to compare those comments to the ones made this summer in declaring a divorce. Texas A&M Will Remain in the Big 12 Conference (June 14, 2010 by Pres. Loftin)

With the conference staying put, I am thinking Baylor will look at the legality of television contracts and look back at how much money was promised to A&M for all of 2010 season and 2011 season... and what was allocated to Baylor, not to mention many other lessor scaled members of the conference.

Baylor might be in position to say, "Okay, the departure can be done, and made to happen on time, but payment must be made in accordance to the spirit of the June 14, 2010 letter and all that has ensued. Go, but pay."

Baylor might crank up the buyout fees more than might have been under entirely different circumstances. But I have no idea what the terms were, or what more could be asked from A&M other than what they have expected. So far I have not seen any programs have to be harshly penalized to leave a conference. They tend to get out relatively cheaply.

Notice this line in that letter from Loftin...
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It would be great if for the moment Baylor did nothing. Then on the Monday following their game with aggy, they filed a court case.

I dont particularly care if aggy goes to the SEC, but would love to see Baylor really make it as hard and painful for aggy as possible. Aggy misery is always a pleasure.
 
i think it depends.

if mizzou leaves, then baylor will file a lawsuit against the SEC.

if mizzou stays, then baylor will be content to be in an AQ conference.
 
They pack the stand with as many Baylor fans as possible at good old stinky Kyle field. Then they put forth their best effort to crush the Aggies at home. Once the beat down is over and done with... then maybe they will kick the Aggies in the *** and say farewell and see you in court.
 
Sorry Joe you are forgetting one little issue - if the Conference stays at nine, the TV money goes down and Baylor (and ISU, Kansas, KSU, Mizzou and Tech) will have concrete proof that they have been deprived of funds by the willful interference of the SEC (supported by Barney Fife's comments on national TV). The SEC will settle and take it out of aggy's share of the SEC money.

The Big 12 might stay at nine just to extract money from the SEC as there is a good case that there isn't a like for like addition available.
 
aggy will beat Baylor by at least 77-0 and break RGIII's legs on the first play from scrimmage.

Never did understand why Baylor got stung with the Branch Davidians hangover. The Davidians always wanted to secede which is an aggy trademark. Someone should warn the SEC the Davidian aggys are coming.
 
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