While Texas Tech and the rest of the Big 12 have been wondering if, or when the conference will expand (or even if it has a future), several pundits have openly expressed opinions that the conference should dissolve entirely.
That type of thinking could have easily been entertained after failed expansion talks occurred last year, but with the recent shakeups in coaching, the Big 12 has established a reenergized interest.
When the Big 12 conference announced that the revenue distributed to its member institutions would be around $35 million, schools took notice. This is primarily due to the debt most of its schools have.