re: Big 12 is screwed

East texas and houston are very similar to louisiana. With the refineries along the gulf and the oil and gas industry is king over there. There are a ton of louisiana transplants that live in houston and that may contribute to the feel being the same. The landscape is the same, very flat, the weather is the same, pretty much the only difference is that they have more mexicans, but that is to be expected being so close to the border. Texas, especially houston is the south. It's a southern city.