[NU Sports] Texas In The Big 10?

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

> Please pause while SjT finds a way to hate the idea. 
> 
I'm in too good a mood to hate anything at this point. Who dat?! :)

That said ...

> I'm not sure how I feel. Why would Texas want to leave the
> Big 12 for the Big 10+2?  I don't pay much attention,
> but the Big 12 seems to be on solid ground.

Mmmm, not quite. The Big XII is probably the most poachable conference of the Big Six (only because no one wants the Big East and they're set as a mega basketball league).

The Pac 10 is making serious overtures to Colorado to come aboard with Utah, BYU and Boise State. The Big Ten has been talking to Mizzou for sure, and maybe KU or Nebraska ... and the league has been split for awhile as the Texas schools against the rest - with the northern schools especially feeling like they get the short end of the stick.

So if any of the "cartel" as Wilbon calls it will crack, it will be the Big XII (plus, then we could take the name! :) ).

As for Texas themselves, they do make a nice fit academically and athletically ... but LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! In this age of travel costs, sending a team to Austin on a road trip would be a killer.

If the league did it, they'd have to do it Pac 10 style and have a "two-fer" so the trip is at least worth it economically. 

Maybe they are looking into my idea of the "Big Ten x 2" and want to take in Texas, TCU, ATM or some others for a southern division?:)

But overall, like you said, this looks more like jockeying games to try and get the Irish to budge. Nothing to get seriously worked up over.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT