Texas may still look for conference move

Don’t be so ready to dismiss talk of texas leaving the Big 12. Last week’s flare-up about Texas and Big Ten expansion came and went with predictable results: Too far, too cold, too neutral. All good points, too. But if you think Texas is content to be buckled up with the Big 12 for another 50 years or 20 or 10 or five, you don’t know Texas. First, let’s discuss economics, at least as well as even I understand them. In the 2008-09 academic year, Texas far and away led the nation in athletic revenue with $138.4 million. Ohio State was No. 2, nearly $19 million behind. Of the top 10 revenue producers, five were from the SEC (Florida, Alabama, LSU, Tennessee and Auburn) and four came from the Big Ten (Ohio State, Penn State, Michigan and Wisconsin). Texas represented the Big 12 all by its lonesome. – Dallas Morning News