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The Lone Star Conference will know in a week whether several of its football teams — likely including Texas A&M-Kingsville — will take part in a festival of games next season at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.

The presidents of the 11 universities that will comprise the LSC beginning next season will meet with LSC commissioner Stan Wagnon in a conference call to discuss the proposed ballgames next Thursday morning, Wagnon said.

With the realignment of the LSC thanks to the departure of five Oklahoma schools, the conference has been trying to secure non-conference matchups, originally with schools from the Gulf South Conference. Wagnon and Gulf South commissioner Nate Salant have been discussing the situation since October, shortly after the five Oklahoma schools announced they would be leaving the LSC.

“Basically what I can tell you is that I started working on a couple of possibilities with the Gulf South Conference commissioner, trying to figure out some ways to play games against each other and through that process started talking with the Dallas Cowboys about the possibility of playing some football games at their stadium,” said Wagnon, who was en route Thursday to Topeka, Kan., for Saturday’s Lower Kanza Bowl pitting Midwestern State of the LSC against Washburn (Kan.) of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Conference.

“But this thing has evolved quite a bit from my first conversations with the Gulf South commissioner,” Wagnon said. “What we’ve proposed to our presidents has changed quite a bit from what it started out. What’s being proposed is more of a Lone Star Conference event rather than a joint venture between the two.”
Story by Caller Times