If you follow college football at all (and of course you should), you have probably heard some of the hoopla surrounding Texas A&M’s attempts to leave the Big 12 Conference for the SEC. Just when the Aggies thought they were out, a new challenge is being led by Baylor University. A&M President R. Bowen Loftin likens the struggle to a divorce. “It’s like a marriage,” Loftin said. “We feel we’re being kept against our will…” Iowa State, Kansas, Missouri and others Big 12 schools reportedly are standing beside Baylor, if not actually threatening to file their own suits, at least in refusing to waive their options to take legal action against A&M and the SEC.
Baylor President Ken Starr has threatened tortious interference lawsuits against the SEC and its commissioner Mike Slive. The basic idea is that the SEC has wrongfully interfered with the contractual obligations that A&M has made with the Big 12 Conference and its member schools. To carry the divorce metaphor one step further, this would be like saying that the SEC is the “other woman” who has wrongfully alienated A&M’s affections away from the Big 12.
A&M and the SEC may be well advised to take Baylor’s threats of legal action seriously. Baylor Pres. Starr is an attorney first and foremost, and has seen his share of litigation. We may all recall his role back in the 90’s as the Independent Counsel. You know… Whitewater? Lewinsky? The Starr Report?
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