re: Ou & Tx just issued a joint statement

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This is the first major fissure. The Big 12 is probably dead. The only question that remains is which way do they pivot, SEC or PAC whatever.

Please go West refugees from the broken conference.

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The problem I see is that I'm not sure the Pac-12 will get a consensus on several of the better additions in the Big-12 remnants. I may be overrating cultural/political differences from the interior/sun belt v. west coast but I just have my doubts TCU or Baylor would get much support in their vote. Every school in the Pac-12, even the private schools, are secular institutions.

The ACC taking WVU makes sense but they also declined to add them a decade ago when the Mountaineers had expressed interest in that arrangement. Big-12 was a marriage of convenience and nothing more for WVU. Does the ACC's interest differ now that the real play would be to get a largely geographically contiguous unit of 16 teams together? The big thing is that their 15th full member needs to sweeten the pot to close the Notre Dame deal.

Kansas would be a great add for basketball but basketball doesn't drive these realignments. Iowa State, Kansas State, and Oklahoma State are all second fiddle programs in sparsely populated states. What is the brand value-add for a conference adding them?