​As we speak I'm told University of Texas president Bill Powers and athletic director DeLoss Dodds are planning an informal lunch with state power brokers at Barton Creek Country Club in Austin to discuss the feasibility of the Longhorns becoming a football independent.

Hello, Notre Dame of the South?

The plan goes thusly: With A&M going to the SEC and OU strongly hinting that it's headed for the Pac 12, Texas can either head west or truly secede. Texas will not give up its cherished Longhorn Network, and won't even dowsize to a regional network in order to join a new Pac 16. Since the Pac 12 signed a $3 billion TV contract recently, it only provides for regional, partnered networks such as Arizona-Arizona State, Washington-Washington State and Oregon-Oregon State. A Pac 16 Conference would reduce Texas' Longhorn Network into a regional deal involving Texas and Texas Tech. Also blocking Texas to a Pac 16 is the fact that the Pac 12 is an equally shared revenue outfit. Since Texas is the No. 1 revenue-generator in college sports and none of the current Pac 12 schools are among the Top 15, the Longhorns are balking at the arrangement.

In other words, no deal.

Being put on the table to dissect as feasible: Texas becoming an Independent in football and competing the Big East, or perhaps the ACC, in all other sports.

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​The Aggies are a joke.

After a 15-year marriage, they want a divorce. Greener pastures they say, failing to camouflage their hissy-fit jealousy of Texas. Their long-time spouse, the Big 12 Conference, shrugs and begins courting other attractive partners.

And now, almost three weeks after we'd all deemed the Aggies dead and gone, they're still here rattling their stupid sabres as if to say "Okay, this time I mean it. I'm really gonna move my shit out and leave."

New York Times last night posted a story about yet another official letter to the Big 12. The divorce is done.

Go already. Have fun getting your ass kicked in the SEC and becoming even less relevant in the Metroplex. I mean, why would Dallas-based media any longer give a damn about a school that's three hours away and plays half its games in places like Tennessee, Georgia and Florida?

Oh, and by the way, since you're breaking a contract you signed last April with the Big 12 and Fox Sports worth $1 billion, leaving is going to cost you in the neighborhood of $20 million. Just leave a check on the table when you leave.

With the Aggies' departure imminent, the Big 12 is left with its second consecutive lame-duck season. The future, however, could be more exciting than ever.

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Like a lot of Aggie traditions, how is their nonsensical, yet sacred War Hymn going to sound in the SEC?

Good bye to Texas University; So long to the orange and white

Imagine the curious looks in Florida's Swamp when the Aggies, trailing 42-7 in the third quarter, start singing about about a team from another conference?

Make no mistake, the Aggies are gone and Gig 'Em to the SEC. I'm hearing -- though it didn't happen yesterday -- that the SEC's Sunday decision was more pause-button than eject. With a time frame of 21 days, no doubt this will be A&M's final season in the Big 12.

As for the state's biggest, best team ...

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​The grand ol' Southwest Conference lived to be 80. The Big 12 Conference may die a teenager.

Only 17 and just a year removed from turmoil that left it with just 10 teams but supposedly unity and cohesion, the conference is again this morning reeling with the news that Texas A&M -- irked by the ESPN Longhorn Network -- has rekindled its flirtation with the Southeastern Conference.

Confirmed Texas Gov. and former Aggie yell leader Rick Perry: "As far as I know, conversations are being had."

What. The. What?!

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One thing I will do is admit when I'm wrong. And Aggies fans, I was wrong about this one and y'all were right.

Texas A&M quarterback Jerrod Johnson was indeed good enough to be a first-round draft pick.

In the United Football League.

The Hartford Colonials last night made Johnson the first overall draft pick in the UFL, a five-team league set to start its third season playing on Sundays in August. The other first-round picks: Florida cornerback Reynaldo Hill, Fresno State quarterback Ryan Colburn, Utah defensive end Martail Burnett and Furman offensive tackle Joel Bell.

At the beginning of the 2010 college football season I scoffed at Johnson being on some writers' Heisman Trophy watch lists and even at him being named the Big 12's Offensive Player of the Year. I think I said at the time that if he maxed out he'd be Minnesota Vikings' quarterback Tarvaris Jackson.

Wrong again.

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​Got a buddy who is Cowboys' season-ticket holder. One of the privileges is getting first dibs at all the events - not just NFL games - at the sparking, billion-dollar joint.

So he buys four tickets on the 50 to last month's Oklahoma-BYU game. Cost him $1,200, and he sells them for $2,400. Nice.

Tries the same trick for last Saturday's Texas A&M-Arkansas game in Arlington. Cost him $1,200, and he sells them for ... 

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