Why would they ruin a good thing. Every year they have the possiblity of getting to a bcs bowl game and sometimes and bcs ncg. They could do the same thing in the big ten but they would have to travel much more. notre dame makes more sense but they seem to like their own nbc special tv package and their special place in the hearts of the bcs computers if they could just win nine games. lol.

They link to the Orlando Sentinel article that had a full list of revenue and Texas was number one. But the Big 10 had a lot of their teams in a good position. The number obviously has to be more, and travel is an issue with the non-revenue sports. At least Texas would have to equal the profit they would be getting from the Big XII, so essentially that woud be more money. An extra $10 million a year would do it, but I really do not have a number. The idea is that the Big 10 Network would be added to a better cable tier by being in Texas and more people would watch the BTN in that state. However, Texas would be on BTN when they play their usual patty cake non-conference schedule and maybe one or two conference game against the low level Big 10 teams. I could see Texas being on BTN 5 maybe 6 times a year so not sure how much extra cash that would bring in.