What's obvious is the Big 12 was and still is shortsighted. At a time where you needed a minimum of 12 to keep a conference championship game, getting back to 12 makes the most sense, as does expanding your conference footprint east, as does increasing your basketball prowess. All of this could have been achieved by adding TCU, Cincinnati, Louisville, and WVU to get back to 12. Even now.. the conference SHOULD be looking to UCF, USF, Memphis, and Cincinnati to get to 14 (matching other P5s and moving into large TV markets and new recruiting areas).

Again. The Big 12 has been very shortsighted with their moves (or lack thereof) over the last decade and here we are, all waiting for the mid 2020s to see if any major players leave or if the Big 12 stays put with their current 10 (leaving WVU on an island) and almost exclusively in the central time zone.