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UT isthe kingmaker and they will stay in the Big 12. Reasons are as follows:

1. Pac 10 moves the center of gravity too far to the west for Texas. They want all the conference championship games played at Jerry’s World.
2. Fox Sports is going to throw a ton of money at the Big 12 this coming April
3. Texas would like to keep all the Texas schools together
4. UT right now is the biggest, richest athletic program in the nation. Control is much more important to them than a few extra million in revenues. May not be even that much difference after the Fox deal.
5. Demographics-Texas has three major markets and they’re growing like wildfire as opposed to some of the Pac 10 and certainly Big 10.
6. Texas doesn’t like being dictated to, they want to continue to rule the roost in the Big 12.

This coming Tuesday the Texas Board of Regents meets. They’ll keep the Texas schools together. Afterwards the Big 12 will look to add probably TCU and someone else not too far down the road. OSU will possibly jump to the North.

All of the above is subject to change after Tuesday. LOL