COLLEGE STATION – It’s (finally) official: Texas A&M is the next member of the Southeastern Conference. The SEC presidents and chancellors announced Sunday afternoon that A&M will join the SEC on July 1, 2012. “The Southeastern Conference provides Texas A&M the national visibility that our great university and our student-athletes deserve,” A&M president R. Bowen Loftin said in a statement. “We are excited to begin competition in the nation’s premier athletic conference. This is a 100-year decision that we have addressed carefully and methodically, and I believe the Southeastern Conference gives the Aggies the best situation of any conference in the country.” [Read More]
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