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Hooked on the Horns: Texas is the engine that powers the Big 12

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: February 21, 2010    Comment on this article Leave a comment

The Big 12 Conference has been very, very good for the University of Texas.

photo - Mack Brown’s success has contributed to Texas’ rise to the top of the Big 12 mountain. AP PHOTO
Mack Brown’s success has contributed to Texas’ rise to the top of the Big 12 mountain. AP PHOTO

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Texas has been even better for the Big 12.

As collegiate sports’ musical chairs start circling again, with the Big Ten considering expansion and the Pac-10 rumbling about the same, know this: As long as the Big 12 has Texas, the conference is fine.

Missouri can go to the Big Ten. Colorado can go to the Pac-10. But if Texas remains, the Big 12 is stable. As long as you’ve got the engine, you can pick up spare tires along the way.

And the engineer, Longhorn athletic director DeLoss Dodds, says UT is happy with the Big 12.

Dodds said the Big 12 has worked "probably better” than he hoped when he and then-Oklahoma athletic director Donnie Duncan put the league together 15 years ago.

"It’s been good to us and for us,” Dodds said.

"Geographically, it works. It works politically, and it has to work politically. It works competitively. It’s worked financially.

"I don’t think we need 100 years of tradition to have a great thing.”

I believe Dodds, for two reasons.

1. Physical evidence. Texas athletics never have been better. Longhorn football has reached the Darrell Royal level of 40 years ago. Longhorn basketball is better than it’s ever been.

2. Dodds is a man of his word. Believe coaches and politicians at your own risk. But sometimes you come across a man you can trust.

"DeLoss Dodds shoots perfectly straight, not now and then, but every time,” said Duncan.

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