By John Nestor

New York, NY, United States

Seems like this Texas A&M to the Southeastern Conference thing has legs after all.

According to a report, all but one of the SEC presidents will discuss the possible addition of Texas A&M and other issues related to conference expansion Sunday.

According to the New York Times, 11 of the 12 SEC school presidents will meet at a secret location. The addition of Texas A&M has been speculated for more than a year with talks progressing with A&M's frustration with rival Texas about to launch its Longhorn Network.

Texas A&M has scheduled a regents meeting for Monday and will discuss "athletic conference realignment."

An SEC official said that the addition of Texas A&M was not a certainty, putting the chances the presidents could vote against the addition at 30 to 40 percent.

One issue needing to be resolved would be which other school would join the league to grow it to 14.

"We realize if we do this, we have to have the 14th," the official told The Times. "No name has been thrown out. This thing is much slower out of the chute than the media and blogs have made it."

Texas A&M considered joining the SEC last summer when the Big 12 nearly fell apart with Colorado and Nebraska announcing plans to leave.

According to the SEC official, renewed talks between the league and Texas A&M started three weeks ago and there was a meeting between the sides one week later.

Another concern surrounding A&M move is whether can break its contract with the Big 12. The remaining 10 teams committed to staying together last summer and announced a television contract with Fox worth more than $1 billion last April.

"They have a contract now," the official told the Times. "We're very sensitive about being part of breaking a contract. What we asked them to do was to go settle their issues and not have us be on the table as the agent of causing them to leave."

 

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SEC Presidents Set To Meet About Possible Texas A&M Move