Realignment has changed college sports, leaving basketball to adjust in football-driven world

Pittsburgh coach Jeff Capel recalls coaching in the Big 12 Conference when Texas flirted with heading to what was then the Pac-10 Conference, a move that threatened to tear the Big 12 apart and potentially leave Kansas homeless despite being a basketball blueblood. The Longhorns stayed put for another 13 years, but it foreshadowed the chaos to come in college sports, and football’s overwhelming role in it.