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Message: [QUOTE="jostar1, post: 1759297, member: 1737"] [B][SIZE=4]BYU athletics: Big 12 TV partners pumping brakes on expansion, but talks continue at BYU [/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=4]It appears that the ESPN and Fox Sports aren't quite as sold on the notion of Big 12 expansion, according to Sports Business Journal. [/SIZE] [SIZE=4] Meanwhile, BYU's entire athletic department was called to a meeting at 10 a.m. Monday, The Salt Lake Tribune learned, although the agenda was unknown to several attendees beforehand. Several top-level leaders from The Church of of Latter-day Saints, the faith that owns and operates BYU, visited the athletic department offices and met with high-level department heads the past week, sources with knowledge of the situation said. Several recruits have said in the past few weeks that BYU coaches have told them the school's prospects of being invited into the Big 12 look favorable, but are not certain. Whether Monday's revelation regarding the television angst is good, or bad, news for BYU is debatable. BYU is seen by many as the leading candidate for Big 12 expansion and the only candidate — Houston, Cincinnati, Connecticut, Colorado State and Memphis are the others most often mentioned — that could potentially add value to the conference. Although ESPN and Fox balking at expansion could foreseeably diminish the chances of it happening, BYU appears to be the strongest candidate, as viewed by the networks, if it does. [URL="http://www.sltrib.com/sports/4182085-155/byu-athletics-big-12-tv-partners"]BYU athletics: Big 12 TV partners pumping brakes on expansion, but talks continue at BYU[/URL] [/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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