FromWayDowntown
01-09-2008, 03:05 PM
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http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/stories/MYSA010907.AggiesHornsUpdate.en.1f1744e.html
College football: Big 12 likely to approve A&M-Texas game move to Thanksgiving night
Web Posted: 01/08/2008 02:09 PM CST
Brent Zwerneman
San Antonio Express-News
COLLEGE STATION – The Big 12 likely will approve Texas A&M and Texas’ request to move their annual rivalry game back to Thanksgiving night, a league spokesman said Tuesday afternoon.
“We wouldn’t have any objection to it,” assistant commissioner Bob Burda said.
Burda added, “There are still some television issues to be worked out,” but those probably won’t hold up the move, which should take place this year.
ESPN will broadcast the contest. Sources from both A&M and UT have said the schools have agreed to the move.
Burda said Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe will have final say on the matter, along with input from the league’s athletic directors. Burda said the league is expected to approve the move as long as it doesn’t create a competitive disadvantage for the conference's other schools.
He said that probably won’t be the case, since the game is at the end of the regular season.
A&M athletic director Bill Byrne said by e-mail on Monday that, “We’ve agreed to it,” when asked if A&M and UT were moving the game back to Thanksgiving night.
A&M and Texas last played on Thanksgiving in 1993 at Kyle Field. The rivals have played on the Friday after Thanksgiving since 1996, with two games on Saturdays in 1994 and ’95.
Burda recalled watching the A&M-UT game on Thanksgiving night while growing up in Michigan.
The Longhorns hold a 73-36-5 advantage in the series, but the Aggies have won the last two contests. A&M prevailed 38-30 in late November at Kyle Field, in former A&M coach Dennis Franchione’s final game.
Three days later the Aggies hired Houston Texans offensive coordinator Mike Sherman, a former Green Bay Packers coach and A&M assistant.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/stories/MYSA010907.AggiesHornsUpdate.en.1f1744e.html
College football: Big 12 likely to approve A&M-Texas game move to Thanksgiving night
Web Posted: 01/08/2008 02:09 PM CST
Brent Zwerneman
San Antonio Express-News
COLLEGE STATION – The Big 12 likely will approve Texas A&M and Texas’ request to move their annual rivalry game back to Thanksgiving night, a league spokesman said Tuesday afternoon.
“We wouldn’t have any objection to it,” assistant commissioner Bob Burda said.
Burda added, “There are still some television issues to be worked out,” but those probably won’t hold up the move, which should take place this year.
ESPN will broadcast the contest. Sources from both A&M and UT have said the schools have agreed to the move.
Burda said Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe will have final say on the matter, along with input from the league’s athletic directors. Burda said the league is expected to approve the move as long as it doesn’t create a competitive disadvantage for the conference's other schools.
He said that probably won’t be the case, since the game is at the end of the regular season.
A&M athletic director Bill Byrne said by e-mail on Monday that, “We’ve agreed to it,” when asked if A&M and UT were moving the game back to Thanksgiving night.
A&M and Texas last played on Thanksgiving in 1993 at Kyle Field. The rivals have played on the Friday after Thanksgiving since 1996, with two games on Saturdays in 1994 and ’95.
Burda recalled watching the A&M-UT game on Thanksgiving night while growing up in Michigan.
The Longhorns hold a 73-36-5 advantage in the series, but the Aggies have won the last two contests. A&M prevailed 38-30 in late November at Kyle Field, in former A&M coach Dennis Franchione’s final game.
Three days later the Aggies hired Houston Texans offensive coordinator Mike Sherman, a former Green Bay Packers coach and A&M assistant.