Big 12 mailbag: Recruiting, looming league meetings

In this week's Twitter mailbag, we break down the final days before national signing day, and the conference meetings that will be held next week.

On to the 'bag:

@Jake_Trotter what does the Big 12 as a whole need to do to keep all these huge recruits out of Texas from leaving for other conferences?

Jake Trotter: That's a complicated question without an easy answer. The perception of the Big 12 has suffered greatly since the second round of realignment, which has trickled all the way down to recruiting. Also now, there are more tentacles reaching into the state of Texas than ever before. That's not changing, especially with Texas A&M having opened the gates to the SEC powers, and the social…