Quality of play among Big 12 members comes and goes in every sport, but what won't change about Kansas anytime soon is that our state does not constitute much of a television market. TV executives don't fall all over each other to reach the "Kansas" audience because there just isn't that much there.
If you read ku message boards, they're busy stroking themselves blue over the athletic and fund-raising prowess (as compared to the purple pussies), yet they fail to grasp the same fundamental that will govern our role in any conference realignment scenario--# TV sets.
Short answer = no.