re: Is the Big 12 still a power conference?

They are a shell of a conference. If OU weren't burdened by Okie Lite the Big 12 would have imploded already because OU would have been gone long ago. Absolutely no one can deal with the shite that flows out of Austin. The other schools might have tried to put on a good front when A&M and MU left, trying to look like one big happy family, but everyone I talk to IRL still hates tejas to the core.