Put A Fork In The Big 12. All Nine Teams? Yeah.

The Big 12 is dead, and Texas killed it.   The final shot to the head, was, "The Longhorn Network".  Texas A&M has had SO enough of their rival, that they don't even want to be in the same conference with them!  They are going to the SEC.  But wait.  The SEC won't take them if any other B12 teams are still thinking about suing?  And who's going to do that?

Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State and Iowa State.  The schools no one else wants.  Missouri has the St. Louis and Kansas City markets, so they are, as bad as they are, going to get a pass and get invited to the Big East. The WORST conference with an automatic BCS qualification.  Slightly behind the ACC.  Neither of which could compete in the Mountain West.

In Missouri's favor, though.  They haven't lost to Troy State this year.  Yet.

Baylor, the right wing, Baptist school, who didn't allow dancing on campus until sometime around 1996, is willing to turn to Trial Lawyers to attempt to stay in a conference that matters.  Oh, the irony.  And it's in Texas!  Irony, cubed.

Kansas, Kansas State and Iowa State are in trouble.  Even ESPN, which is getting rich on this Bullshit Championship Series stuff, and keeping any talk of a playoff, off their shows is saying that the, "Big Least" could take the Kansas schools and, "might at a later date, consider adding Iowa State."  That has got to scare the one third of the folks in Iowa who give a shit.  No one else in the country cares.  Really.  No one cares.

T.  Boone Pickens, interviewed on tonight's Oklahoma State drubbing of Arizona on ESPN was saying that no matter what happens to Oklahoma, they are tied together with Oklahoma State and those two schools will move together.  Because, his words, "Oklahoma is a small state, and it doesn't make any sense to split up the best thing we've got going."  Well, if you live in Stillwater, you better hope he's right.

I know how rich this guy is, he said he gave OSU something like $300 Million.  I understand how much clout he has in Oklahoma.  I get it.  But as late as yesterday, Oklahoma coach, Bob Stoops was willing to give Texas the kiss of death, saying they would move even if Texas didn't and he didn't care if they played again, because it wouldn't affect recruiting in Texas.

Oklahoma v. Texas is a Much bigger deal than Oklahoma v. OSU!  Boone said it himself, "Oklahoma is a small state" and he's right.

The Red River Shoot Out is a national, network, TV game EVERY year.  Even when one or both of the teams is having a down year.  OU v. OSU?  No.

So, this is my fearless prediction for how this is going to shake out.  Oklahoma, OSU, Texas and Texas Tech to the PAC (16).  A&M gets it's wish to go to the SEC, who will then raid the ACC for three other teams.  Even though Virginia Tech rules the ACC right now, they will see the writing on the wall, and they and their Washington DC, metro area TV market, will grudgingly, move to the SEC.  That MIGHT make the SEC take West Virginia or Pitt instead of another mediocre ACC team.  The ACC will take what it can from the Big East to make up for it. Louisville, probably.  South Florida?  Nope.

Connecticut?  You are lucky to be where you are, and are going no where fast.

So this having fallen into place, the Big "Least" will be forced to expand it's football footprint.  No, Notre Dame isn't interested.  So, Missouri and maybe the Kansas schools.

And they will have to kick Notre Dame's other sports out.  The Gold Domers are going to be scheduling EVERY sport as an independent unless they can find a way to convince the Big 10 to take them.  And I'm not sure they want to go that way.  They like being a big deal in football as an independent.

But the thing is, they aren't that big any more.  And they need a place for all their other sports to land.  The Big East is a possibility, but I think, THEY think, they are too good to play football there.  Yeah, if it was 1972 you are.  Now?  Not so much.

All this stuff makes Nebraska, Colorado and Utah look like the winners in this, because they all moved before it got ugly.  Now it's going to get ugly.  And I can't wait to see it!

As someone who's school proved it belonged in the BCS ages ago, (remember, "BCS Busting?  We INVENTED it!") with ass kickings of Pitt in the Fiesta Bowl (worst Bowl Game atmosphere EVER!) and the total embarrassment and dismantling of Alabama, in their OWN back yard of New Orleans (BEST Bowl Game atmosphere, ever.  Oh, wait.  That was just New Orleans being, New Orleans!).  I don't feel too sorry for guys like Baylor and Iowa State or anyone from Kansas.  You cooked up this little deal.  And now, like the bad meth lab it was, it's about to blow up in your face.  Live with it.

Can't wait to watch the Utes play the Trojans this Saturday.  Win or lose, my school is in a GREAT place for it's athletic programs.  Now.  How you feelin' Kansas?  Oh, never mind.  I don't really care.