COLLEGE STATION — A&M’s regents will meet by telephone on Monday to consider action concerning “authorization for the president of Texas A&M University (R. Bowen Loftin) to negotiate and execute a settlement agreement with the Big 12 Conference and its members.”

The Aggies are exiting the Big 12 and entering the Southeastern Conference on July 1. The SEC is moving to 14 teams this summer with the addition of A&M and fellow longtime Big 12 member Missouri.

The financial settlement with the Big 12 was the last large legal matter for the Aggies to take care of in their move to the nation’s top football conference.

I will be in Lawrence, Kan., on Monday for the A&M at Kansas men’s basketball game, but will keep tabs on the proceedings in Aggieland, like the regents, by the ol’ telephone.