The seemingly inevitable collapse of the Big 12 sucks for KC college sports fans. As a mizzou fan, I understood the move to the SEC but hated losing the rivalries and the local games. Losing the B12 tourney will suck.

The PAC is also the 5th best P5 conference. So, yeah it would make sense they want to add schools and stay alive. Especially if you’re getting multiple long travel schools who can be in their own division.

Iowa State adds ZERO in terms of television.

Media markets was so 10 years ago. It’s the streaming age. I bet Iowa State fans would stream more games than Rutgers fans. Cord cutting isn’t going to stop anytime soon.

Mizzou Football recruiting is better than ever. Mizzou Basketball recruiting is hot garbage.

That's not getting you into the Big Ten. Of course, nothing is.

Yeah it would probably be the AAU status that does.

$20M annual economic benefit to KC. Definitely would suck to lose that.

Aren't OU and OSU basically considered a package deal at this point? I don't necessarily mean with the schools themselves so much as with certain political elements within the state of Oklahoma.

Some expansion history might be in order here to explain this. When the ACC expanded in 2004, their original intention was to take Miami, Syracuse, and Boston College (only God knows why). The ACC at the time had 9 schools and 7 had to agree for expansion to happen. UNC and Duke were already hard NOs because they thought it would upset their BB apple cart. However, elements in the Virginia legislature friendly to VaTech started threatening to cut UVA's general funding if they agreed to any plan that left VaTech out in the cold. Since that made UVA a NO, the whole expansion plan had to be rethought. As you can guess, the new plan included inviting VaTech.

The point of all this is: Could OSU-friendly elements in OK's govt start making threats like this against OU if they do anything to screw over OSU in this? When legislators start threatening a state school's funding for any reason, that school's administrators definitely start paying attention! But would it have any effect?

Legislation isn’t stopping this lol…OU will tell them to get ****ed, they’re going.

OU would probably make up the money in football revenue

Texas state Gov't is already working on legislation. They said a few people on 40 acres in Austin are not going to determine the fate of something as important as the University of Texas and its future and affiliations.

LMAO Governor is a UT alum. He'll just kill any legislation that actually finds some way to make it to his desk