No timetable for Oklahoma's decision on Big 12 future
As its fellow Big 12 Conference members nervously await a decision that is likely to decide the league's fate, Oklahoma has no timetable for announcing whether it will remain in the Big 12, a source close to the Sooners told ESPN on Wednesday.
Oklahoma was the only remaining Big 12 school that announced it would waive its right to pursue litigation against the SEC over a potential conference move by Texas A&M. The SEC has said that this is the condition under which it would accept TAMU as its 13th member.
Oklahoma is still in its own state of deciding whether to leave the Big 12. According to sources, if Oklahoma chooses to remain a Big 12 member, Texas A&M would be permitted to complete its move. Oklahoma has no set timetable on when it will render the decision, according to sources.
Texas A&M, which had to cancel a celebration and news conference scheduled for Wednesday, is left to await the outcome of the decision to learn its own fate.
"We are being held hostage right now," Texas A&M president R. Bowen Loftin told ESPN. "Essentially, we're being told that you must stay here against your will and we think that really flies in the face of what makes us Americans for example and makes us free people."