Judgement day for the Big 12?

[west-texan]

From the Austin newspaper:

Sounds almost like they are trying to pin the blame on Nebraska and Mizzou.

When the Texas greed and ego at UT-Austin may be what is really driving this.

And I feel almost the same angst about the Big-12 going away.

As I felt when WT shot itself in the foot by dropping to D2.

www.statesman.com/sports/nebraska-missouri-given-ultimatum-on-deciding-their-futures-729660.html

[west-texan]

For 75 years, WT was a traditional mid-major D1 school.

And WT belongs in the bunch in the WAC-14 East Division.

WT has played games with:

Memphis and N. Mexico St and Fresno and San Jose and Houston and UNT and Idaho and Utah St and UTEP.

See how far WT has fallen?

And WT would have about 12 to 15,000 students by now if they had not wasted 25 yrs in D2.

WT could have been in a position to take advantage of some pending changes.

But WT does not have their ducks in order because of trying hard to stay down at D2.

WT could probably double their athletic fund-raising by saying they want to go back up to D1.

Extra money will show up faster if you ask for it.

[phantom]

I had heard UT, A&M and Tech might be headed over to the PAC 10. It will be interesting to see what happens now.

[Old Rip]

The big 4 or 5 mega conferences might as well bill themselves as a farm system for the NFL, which in reality is what they are - with graduation rates in the 30% range. Interesting to see a post from the Griz board, my beloved alma mater. I wonder about the top tier FCS programs like Montana, Appy State, Richmond, JMU, GA Southern, Texas St. and their plans to move into the FBS subdivision - looks like they will hit the brick wall of reality, the reality in college football is the haves vs. the have nots. As someone said in Jerry MacGuire - "Show me the money!!!"