Florida State BOT Chair Andy Haggard Rips ACC, Would Listen To Big 12 Offer

We thought the Florida State to the Big 12 talk was over. It seemed the door was firmly closed and locked on Friday. The Seminoles’ athletic director shot the rumors down, then Texas AD DeLoss Dodds did the same.

But expansion and realignment are never that simple. Add in the mess of a situation at Florida State, in a leadership sense, and we’ve got a recipe for dissent.

For example, take Florida State Board of Trustees Chairman Andy Haggard’s comments via Warchant.com.

“How do you not look into that option,” asked Haggard. “On behalf of the Board of Trustees I can say that unanimously we would be in favor of seeing what the Big 12 might have to offer. We have to do what is in Florida State’s best interest.”

Haggard is fed up with the ACC and isn’t going to take it. He ripped the conference for giving up third-tier broadcasting rights for football while keeping them for basketball. That move, he said, shows a bias towards the Carolina schools, and puts FSU in a bad spot.

So on one hand there’s the athletic directors squashing the rumors. On the other there’s the Board of Trustees at FSU apparently endorsing, perhaps begging for, a move to the Big 12 -- or at least listening to what the conference could bring to the table. And we’re back to square one again.

Get ready for a fun summer!