According to a pair of tweets from Tony Barnhart (@MrCFB) of the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Machen said “SEC Presidents put a ‘speed bump‘ in a fast moving process with Texas A&M.
“Dr. Machen said last Sunday’s presidents meeting was necessary because of Texas Governor Rick Perry‘s public comments on the SEC.”
As a refresher, Perry told media members last week “I’ll be real honest with you. I just read about it the same time as y’all did. … As far as I know, conversations are being had. That’s frankly all I know. I just refer you to the university and the decision makers over there.”
Perry’s comments didn’t mean a lot on the surface; there was nothing that indicated the talks were between A&M and the SEC, although one could certainly bridge that gap in their own mind. It feels more and more like the SEC needed to clear the air, that they needed to show it was A&M who was interested in courting the SEC, not the other way around.
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