The 100-Year Decision: Texas A&M and the SEC

On June 15, 2009, Texas A&M University made the seemingly insignificant announcement that R. Bowen Loftin, a bespectacled vice president with several physics degrees, had been promoted to serve as interim president of the College Station campus. No one could have predicted at the time that the bowtie-adorned, self proclaimed technology and computer “geek” would emerge from obscurity to lead A&M on one of the most significant and landscape altering journeys in the history of the high-stakes world of college athletic conferences. The 100-Year Decision: Texas A&M and the SEC is Loftin’s compelling, first-person account of the events that led to A&M’s historic exit from the Big 12 Conference and its entry into the prestigious SEC. In this candid memoir, readers witness what happened in the closed-door meetings that fed this Texas-sized controversy, with all the deception, manipulation, political pressure, and deal-making anyone could expect.