{"id":3747,"date":"2010-06-18T07:51:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T12:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2010-06-18T07:51:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T12:51:02","slug":"tsunami-of-political-pressure-from-baylor-helped-big-12-stay-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/06\/tsunami-of-political-pressure-from-baylor-helped-big-12-stay-together\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tsunami of political pressure from Baylor&#8217; helped Big 12 stay together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One last bit on conference realignment&#8230; If you had any doubts that the Baylor Nation&#8217;s voice played a large part in the Big 12 Conference staying together, check out what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5jX9oueWn29g0teUqN-WpLhAxBwqgD9GCK7280\" target=\"_blank\">Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott had to say<\/a> about why his league&#8217;s attempt at grabbing schools from the Big 12 didn&#8217;t work:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Number One, I think there was a tsunami of Texas political pressure from Texas A&amp;M and Baylor.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As head coach Scott Drew says in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/video.php?v=408981241117\" target=\"_blank\">the video below<\/a>, &#8220;Let&#8217;s give a round of applause for these fans!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"470\" height=\"306\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v\/408981241117\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v\/408981241117\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"470\" height=\"306\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor family!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One last bit on conference realignment&#8230; If you had any doubts that the Baylor Nation&#8217;s voice played a large part in the Big 12 Conference staying together, check out what Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott had to say about why his league&#8217;s attempt at grabbing schools from the Big 12 didn&#8217;t work: &#8220;Number One, I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-student-life","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}