The Big XII is reduced to luring city schools? Damn, do I ever want out of this shit-hole, has-been conference.

The Big XII is a dying mall that is trying to fill vacant storefronts with youth group meeting spaces.

I'd love to add Louisville, with their BCS win, Final Fours, and National Championships into the Big 12.

A BCS win over Wake Forest in the 2007 Orange Bowl = LMAO

You're forgetting who you just responded to.

I know. I shouldn't shake the dim light bulbs.

As long as the Big 12 stays together, I think you're wrong about TAMU, but you might be right about the rest of the SEC.

Big 12 will be dead within a decade. MU has to decide if they want to go to the SEC or B1G or staying with the sinking Big Texas conference.

Seems to be an easy decision to me.

The Big Texas should try & raid teams from the B1G or SEC area like Cincinnati, Louisville or UAB! I hear SMU is relevant again too. I think TCU is a no brainer for the Big Texas.

Yup, that's where I've ended up as I started looking at the available replacements.

To get to 12 will almost certainly require at least 2 city schools and to stay at 10 is simply not doable; this conference can't survive like that, IMO.

They clearly don't have the muscle to bring in a legitimate powerhouse like ND and they don't appear interested in a service academy.

Mostly the conference is screwed and MU needs to GTFO before it really implodes.

TCU adds very little value.

This is what I want KU to do...

And I want to be a billionaire.

...so frickin bad
Buy all of the things I never had
Uh, I wanna be on the cover of Forbes magazine
Smiling next to Oprah and the Queen

Wait what? Where am I.

Adds more than Louisville, IMO.

I think they could do an okay job salvaging this if they went with TCU, Air Force and BYU, but they won't. They're dragging their feet and those schools are likely to get snapped up before the XII decides to expand back to 12.

Look for 3 city schools, if you're lucky.

Or watch them just take one and try to hold at 10, which is just conference suicide, IMO. I understand the folks that try to say that 16 is too many (and it might be), but 10 is too few. I think you need that conference championship game.

I don't think adding 1-2 to get back to 10 is conference suicide if all the schools pledge their media rights as has been suggested. Adding schools to get back to 12 decreases each school's slice of the TV revenue, and I don't think the Big 12 is in position to bargain hard at the negotiation table right now for big new tier 1 and 2 deals.