re: Elephant in the room... Mizou

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Oh boo ducking hoo How did Texas ruin the Big 8? Was never a member of that conference

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Wait, do you actually believe that Texas is not the primary reason the Big 12 collapsed?

The Big Eight existed for nearly 100 years without issue before the Longhorns came along in the mid-90s and destroyed it.

Right from the start, Texas worsened the unequal revenue sharing. In 2006, the longtime Big Eight headquarters were relocated from Kansas City, Missouri to (no surprise) Irving, Texas. In 2010, Texas and its cronies tried to jump to the PAC-10, destabilizing the conference. In late 2010, the Longhorn Network was announced. While other conferences were busy creating conference networks, Texas instead gobbled the opportunity for themselves at the cost of a Big 12 network.

Just before that occurred, four schools: Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, voted to block any change to revenue sharing in the Big 12, ensuring unequal revenue distribution in the conference, with plans to worsen it.

This did hilariously backfire on Nebraska when Texas then created the Longhorn Network. They fled to the Big Ten because the ol Huskers could not compete with Texas' greed. Colorado, fed up with Texas, fled to the PAC-10. Although not before Texas tried to strong arm the PAC-10 into taking Texas and Baylor instead of Colorado. Texas pushed so hard, that the PAC decided to only invite Colorado instead of dealing with Texas schools and their double-dealing, greedy ways. At that point, Texas had already destroyed the old Big Eight. You took out two of the four teams Mizzou was most interested in aligning with, leaving only Kansas and Oklahoma.

Interestingly, at the time of the revenue sharing vote, Mizzou was fourth out of the 12 schools in terms of revenue. So it was the only school in the top five to vote to equalize revenue sharing.