Future of Big 12 decided today?

Today's the day the biggest shoe drops on the potential for massive Big 12 Conference realignment.

Really.

Or maybe not at all.

Rumors swirl with news - with a pertinent University of Oklahoma board of regents meeting looming later today, forming a mish-mash of fact and fiction.

The fluid nature of the situation brought resignation, mild indignation and wait-and-see comments from Big 12 coaches in today's teleconference.

Iowa state Coach Paul Rhoads, whose team improved to 3-0 for the first time since 2005 after Friday's uphill 24-20 win at UConn - said hasn't addressed the issues with his team.

“Until there's some finality to things there's no need to have discussions about it,” Rhoads said. “(Cyclone players) know they don't have a say and they know I don't have a say.”

Finality, or at least more clarity, may be near.

Or not.

A report updated today on the Austin American-Statesman's web site cited unnamed sources who indicated “Texas, Oklahoma, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State are engaged in serious discussions with the (Pacific)-12.”

But such discussions, the American-Statesman report noted, had not reached the point where Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott had called on the 12 conference presidents to approve the proffering of invitations to those four Big 12 institutions.

The Texas board of regents, according to the Associated Press, is expected to convene a meeting later today to discuss conference affiliation.

Longhorns coach Mack Brown reiterated his alignment preference in Monday's Big 12 teleconference and there's no prefix attached.

“I've got really good bosses who understand conference realignment better than I do,” Brown said. “I think the University of Texas wants to stay in the Big 12. I want to stay in the Big 12."

Sooners coach Bob Stoops said the forces in action - including the Big East's Pittsburgh and Syracuse completing a whirlwind weekend exodus to the Atlantic Coast Conference - have gained insurmountable traction.

“As the landscape changes, you have to change with it,” Stoops said.

Kansas State Coach Bill Snyder expressed dismay about the situation.

“Families don't disintegrate because of problems,” the veteran coach said. “They work them out.”

Snyder also called for civility, compromise and patience to win the day.

“Schools should be able to sit down and cast aside whatever petty jealousies exist and take a mature approach,” he said.

Problem is, coaches have little say in the big money realignment game - even as they seek the high ground.

“I don't know what's going to happen,” Missouri coach Gary Pinkel said.

Nobody fully does as the dominoes fall.

Texas A & M made the first move.

The Aggies are set to flee to the Southeastern Conference, unless the threat of possible litigation retained by Baylor, ISU and others, crystallizes and derails the plan.

What all this means for the Cyclones - who, in an anonymously sourced ESPN report are among schools that reached out over the weekend to the now-fractured Big East - is unclear.

Iowa State sports information director Tom Kroeschell said in a text message athletics director Jamie Pollard has no comment on the situation.

Baylor Coach Art Briles, also, isn't saying much.

For good reason, he said.

“The strange thing about all this is my opinion doesn't have any bearing on what's happening, so I don't see any reason to give it,” Briles said.