After first official meeting with its new conference, Texas officials are confident they...
the Longhorns’ first Southeastern Conference spring meetings“At the University of Texas, we’ve never rushed the field, it’s not what we do, it’s not our expectations,” Del Conte told the Houston Chronicle of the SEC voting to give sizable fines for rushing fields or courts directly to the other school instead of the league. “We understand the gravitas of playing us and vice versa, big games like that, it’s just not in our culture.
“There are a lot of forces at work in college athletics right now, whether it’s legislative, NIL , issues around how to continue providing the best support for athletes,” said Hartzell, who was instrumental in UT’s early interest in joining the SEC beginning about three years ago. “All of those things suggested being a part of what we envision as the premiere conference in college sports would be important for our institution.
They did have input and opinions, however, and both Del Conte and Hartzell said they understood the SEC opting to use an eight-game league football schedule for the first year the conference expands to 16 teams in 2024.
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