[C19fan]

When I heard about the list of teams the Big 12 = 10 was considering I was shaking my head. The likes of Cincinnati, Houston, UCF, etc. bring nothing to the Big 12 = 10. Houston is good right now until the current coach leaves for a Power 5 job.

[Yo-Yo]

10 teams in the Big 12, and 12 teams in the Big Ten. Go figure.

[lodi90]

UCF brings Florida. Big 12 could do worse.

[kabar]

Cincinnati, Memphis, BYU, Connecticut, and Boise State would be good candidates. BYU and Boise State add to the strength of the conference in football. Cincinnati, Connecticut, and Memphis bring top notch basketball programs. And BYU is not bad either.

The Big 12 needs at least two more teams to compete with the other power conferences.

[Walkingfeather]

Is this about football?? who the f cares about that/? shhesh...

[RayChuang88]

The Big Ten could become more prominent than the Big 12 because Big Ten schools like Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State and Wisconsin have gigantic alumni bases (and huge number of donations/endowments). Even little Northwestern has a famous national reputation and more recently an actually competitive football team.

[dfwgator]

Big 12 is dead. Baylor was the last straw.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

What the f__k are we talking about here?? Is this something to do with sports?

[OKSooner]

Good ideas but not gonna happen. There's one entity in the Big 12 with more money than almost everyone else put together, and it's kinda funny that everything goes their way all the time.

That's why the conference lost four respectable schools (at the time at least, notwithstanding Missouri's recent issues with political correctness, which of course came after their departure to the SEC) all at once.

"If one school is gonna have all the say we're out of here."

Colorado, Nebraska, and Texas A&M are all good state run institutions that could have been kept in the conference with the possible exception of Colorado, which has always had a cultural affinity for the PAC-12.

My personal opinion has always been to try to keep the conference together, but in view of the most recent news from one particular member institution, I'm not so sure.

Maybe just disband it and let everyone go their own way, or better yet just reorganize all the conferences into however many uberconferences of 16 teams each, that feed into a playoff system.

Or, in light of all the cheating that persists, and the crime and thuggery that no one seems to be able to entirely control and at least one school in the Big 12 appears to have condoned and enabled... also another recent problem at a school in another conference that had successfully promoted itself as "clean"... how about just shut it all down, and everyone go get a little exercise and some fresh air of their own on Saturday afternoons?