Earlier Tuesday, The Oklahoman reported that Oklahoma would be interested in staying in the Big 12 if the conference and the University of Texas agreed to some concessions, including the resignation of Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe and Texas's agreeing to restrictions on its new television network, including limits on its coverage of high schools.
A Big 12 source confirmed the report and said that after a few days in which it seemed as if the conference would break up, optimism about holding it together had returned.
"O.U. would stay if they can get the right kind of deal out of Texas," a Big 12 official said. "Texas is doing everything they can to keep this together." The official said that Texas did not want to abandon the Big 12 for the Pac-12 because it did not want to share revenue from its Longhorn Network.
All along, the Pac-12 presidents had shown little appetite for further expansion. But Scott kept in touch with Texas and Oklahoma, which had reached out to the league, in case of significant shifts in the landscape.
After Scott met with Texas officials in Los Angeles over the weekend, and the details of what Texas wanted from the Pac-12 leaked out, it became apparent that the Longhorns could not fit into what Scott called in his statement a "culture of equality."
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