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Message: [QUOTE="southie, post: 3902194, member: 2527"] As a Texas fan, I would love it if Texas was invited (again) to join the B1G, or even the SEC. I don't think the SEC covets Texas as much as the B1G does because SEC now has its presence in the state with Texas A&M. If the B1G manages to add Texas one day, then I think they will secure being the revenue leaders forever. I certainly don't deny that Texas is "all about the money"; when you add in the B1G's research revenue from their [I]Big Ten[/I] Academic Alliance (BTAA), formerly the Committee on Institutional Cooperation ([I]CIC[/I]), Texas joining the B1G seems to be the most realistic next step to me; the only remaining issue is whether it's Kansas or Oklahoma that goes with Texas to increase the B1G membership to 16 schools. As for the PAC 12, nobody from the Big 12 is going to want to join that conference after what Larry Scott has done to it. To me, the Big 12 and PAC 12 have switched places as far as which is the more lucrative and financially-stable conference. So, the PAC 12 has zero options for expansion (unless it wants BYU, Boise, UNLV, etc.) as far as adding any schools from another P5 conference; they are somewhat boxed in geographically. Now, if any Big 12 schools leave for the B1G or SEC, then the remaining members may have no choice but to request membership into the PAC 12. [/QUOTE]