Chuck Carlton, Big 12 beat writer for SportsDayDFW.com and The Dallas Morning News, answered questions about the league in a recent live chat. Here are some highlights:
If Texas Tech had steady success in football, where would its athletics department rank among the nation's elite?
Carlton: Great question. First let's stipulate what kind of success we're talking about in football. How about the Mike Leach standard of a bowl game every year and occasionally challenging for even more, like 2008? In that case -- and assuming that men's basketball and baseball don't regress -- then Tech would be among the most best athletic departments in terms of performance in the country.