NEW YORK (AP) — Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott tells The Associated Press he has no animosity toward Texas for declining an invitation to join his league.
Scott said in a telephone interview Wednesday that he never felt he had a done deal with Texas and the four other Big 12 schools he was trying to add to the Pac-10. The conference would have become a 16-team league had Texas joined with Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Texas A&M.
Instead, those schools decided to stay in the Big 12.
Scott says when the news came down that Texas and the rest were not joining Pac-10, he called Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe to congratulate him for saving his conference.
The Pac-10 landed one Big 12 school in Colorado. Nebraska left the Big 12 for the Big Ten.
