Wednesday marked the third and final day of news conferences at the Big 12 football media day.

With Texas and Oklahoma all having news conferences, it was sure to be one of the busier days in Dallas.

The final day also continued the trend of not talking too much about the conference re-alignment.

“I was focused on preparing our football program,” said Kansas coach Turner Gill. “So I didn’t get all caught up into that, we’ll focus on the 2010 season; focus on the University of Kansas. Again, we’re just excited about getting this season started.”

Gill’s comments echoed those from all other coaches in Dallas.

This could be due in large part to them being told they were to stay away from the topics of the future of the Big 12 or their personal opinions how changes to be made.

“We were told that we needed to stay away from the future of the Big 12 and our opinions about the future of the Big 12,” said Texas coach Mack Brown.

The question Brown denied to comment on was in regard to figuring out a scenario to have the Texas/Oklahoma game at the Cotton Bowl every year while having a playoff game in December at the new Cowboy Stadium.

However, he did offer this piece of information about the Big 12 and the two venues.

“I think the contract for Dallas and for the Cotton Bowl and the state fair is through 2015,” Brown said. “I’m sure that a lot of people now will look at the possibilities of what will we do in the Big 12 if we do not have a championship game to fill championship Saturday.”

Despite being told to not focus on the future of the Big 12, Brown still speculated about the future scheduling system.

“I think, when you looked at the realignment possibilities over the last year, it’s been really difficult on the athletic directors to schedule for the future because they didn’t know where they would be,” Brown said.

“They didn’t know how many games they’d have. If a [nine-game conference schedule] does occur, we’ll have to get rid of a couple of games too. So that makes it more difficult for other teams because it’s a small window of time here that you’re changing your schedule to not play that fourth out-of-conference game.”

Brown also said if the schedule goes to a round-robin type schedule as Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe has indicated previously, this could mean less games against smaller opponents and more “Ohio State-type” match-ups early on.

But what would a nine-game conference schedule mean for the Texas/Oklahoma game?

Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops did not deny the game’s importance but wanted to keep the rest of the conference in mind as well.

“Over the last 10 years with [Texas and Oklahoma], you know, being in the national picture as well, and being in the same division, it’s made that game a great attraction not only in this region but across the country,” Stoops said. “So [the game] matters to a degree. But I think also just strength of all the schools in our league makes a difference.”

For now, what the official scheduling system will look like will continue to be just speculation as the new season gets closer to beginning.