(12-05-2013 12:06 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 12:01 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(12-05-2013 11:46 AM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  This is a good example of why even though you may 'hate' your rival you need them in the long run.

The Big12 would easily be viable with Texas/A&M/OU, or at least as viable as it always was.

The real losers here are all the lesser programs of the old Big8.

Not that it's a scientific approach, but when you visit Texas and Oklahoma message boards you will find more than a few threads where fan posters are urging for the dissolution of the Big 12 in one form or another. And, depending upon the school those fans are urging in interestingly divided numbers moves to the PAC, SEC, and at one school Big 10. In the last week there has been one Texas blog site (Burnt Orange Nation) that has recommended a move to the SEC.

So, the as far as most posters are concerned the vast majority for those two schools want a move elsewhere. Just where to move is the matter of most contention. I'd say Oklahoma sites are slightly more for the PAC than the SEC but the Big 10 option is the very close third. For Texas it seems to be PAC, followed by SEC, with the Big 10 more distant.

Factor network associations and it becomes a real sticky wicket. That's probably the biggest reason the Big 12 is still with us.

I think many of the fans and administration, even though they would never admit it, are two parts concerned that about being left behind, and another 2 parts concerned that moving will mean the end of the glory days of calling all the shots.

Besides, what will they rename themselves when PAC is no longer applicable?

It would remain the PAC it's the divisions that would be renamed. You would have the Shake and Bake (earthquake & volcano) division, and the Border Patrol or Coyote division if there were only two.