I think this is good for Oklahoma State and the other seven surviving members of the Big 12.
With the additions of BYU, Cincinnati, UCF, and Houston the conference gets four things.
1 The Big 12 gets the best possible team in BYU as far as fanbase following and TV sets.
2 The Big 12 gets the currently highest rated team available in No. 8 Cincinnati.
3 The Big 12 gets a UCF program which has three New Years Day Six Bowl appearances under their belt and a huge enrollment and fanbase which should be able to be grown even more.
4 The Big 12 gets the Houston basketball brand just several months removed from a Final Four appearance.
This could be a nice football conference especially if Iowa State can keep Matt Campbell from moving on to the Big 10 at some point.
With twelve teams the conference can get back to two six team divisions and I would assume the Big 12 Championship Game would remain at Jerry’s World.
What Oklahoma State would get specifically would be the chance to actually win their conference every now and again, stay in the wheelhouse of their Texas recruiting base, but most of all finally the chance to get out from OU’s shadow and create their own national brand and identity.
My question to all O State fans has always been this…Why would you want to continue Bedlam since you very rarely ever win Bedlam?
I ask one of my knowledgeable O State friends this and he laughed. He said, “I agree. If you got your ass kicked for over a century by a neighbor and he finally decided to move on…. why would you want to follow him?”
It will be refreshing to not hear the back and forth nonsense from these two fanbases anymore in regards to this one-sided football series.
With the college football playoff expected to expand to twelve teams you would expect the champion of this league to be given an invite every year.
From the college basketball standpoint for me this is fantastic because as a hoops fan I’ll be able to watch Mike Boynton’s O State team play in the best college basketball conference. While OU with Porter Moser and Texas with Chris Beard will give me SEC basketball to follow with teams like Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, and Kentucky.
Could you visualize at some point OU vs. O State in the hoops Big 12-SEC Challenge? Now that would be a Bedlam worth watching.
Just work out the money issues with the OU-Texas exit and the exit fees from Houston, Cincy, and UCF with the AAC and I don’t see why this couldn’t all be put in place for the 2022 season.
For a sports addict like me this is the best of all possible worlds.
And if O State prez Kayse Schrum needs to pare her budget she could start with getting rid of former Mullet King Mike Gundy’s over priced salary if he doesn’t make the Big 12 Championship Game this December.
Win, win, and win for Kayse Schrum is the way I see it.
You got off to a rough start, but maybe the internet lunch we did got things headed back in the right direction. The USC fight song would have been nice, but sometimes you don’t always get what you originally wanted. It’s all about compromise and butterflies.
Have a nice football season.
I think a song would be nice about now. It’s time to let all this angst go is the way I see it. Nobody got stabbed in the back. Nobody got screwed. People just grew up, made some adult choices, and moved on is the way I see it.