BYU wasn't impressed. You're competing with the Big East and the ACC. If you want crap schools that are just happy to be along for the ride, go for it. If you want Rutgers or WVU, that's different.

Maybe not in 2006, but this is 2011 after NU, CU, and TA&M were let out easy. I would not be happy at all.

BYU is an odd duck. I don't know that they are in the mood to join ANY conference, unless it somehow became required.

"It's not about the money" is usually a blatant lie, as well as being a silly cliche, but with BYU it really isn't about the money. The church can meet all their financial needs, so its really about them being more comfortable with independence along with their bizarre honor code and refusal to play on Sundays.

BYU didn't want to open their books so they opted to stay independent. You will have a point about BYU when they join a different conference. We'll see how it plays out with L'ville and WVU. No idea why you've brought Rutgers up.

We don't really know if aTm is being let out easy or not. No final exit fee figure has been released for them yet. If them and Mizzou leave at the same time, one would expect the figures to be similar I would expect.

100% agree.

Shouldn't the message be that Mizzou should stay because of all the great things the Big XII has to offer? Instead, Mizzou should stay because the conference has a gun pointed at its members' heads.

He's said that as well. Still not sure what the big deal is.

BYU would open its books for the B1G in a heartbeat.

Louisville is a crappy city school, and neither they nor WVU appear to have any options at the moment. I brought up Rutgers because they have declared free agency and would be a big addition.

OK

That was my point.

The big deal is that MU has made no action towards leaving. Neinas just told his wife that he'll kill her if she ever leaves him, and he did it with the cameras running.

I'm not mad. Every time he opens his mouth, I see $$$$. I can't believe how ham-fisted this guy is. I'm not used to seeing someone this incompetent working outside Mizzou.

So the marketing campaign for the Big XII should be:

The Big XII: Come for the lack of other options. Stay because the doors are locked from the outside.

No, he told his wife that he will take all her money if she leaves as was previously agreed upon in their prenup and happens to be public knowledge.

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There is no marketing campaign. Big 12 is trying to add schools where realistically possible. Why are you such a drama queen?