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The continued talk from Texas schools of additional "research opportunities" is a little dumbfounding.
Any opportunities that are there with schools outside of the Big 12 are there now, since research has absolutely ZERO to do with NCAA conference affiliation. Most serious researchers at the university level would probably struggle to even tell you WHICH freaking NCAA conference their school is a part of. As someone who works for the A&M System, Bob Dole can call up anyone, in any NCAA conference (or NAIA, or whatever the hell else, for that matter), and propose collaborative research projects.
And Bob Dole finds it difficult to believe that joining the Mega-Whatever 26 is going to provide any additional connectivity/bandwidth benefits beyond that which every Texas Big 12 school already has with LEARN. The continued mention of such is approaching the point of being insulting.
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