Every Team in The Big 12 Are All Heading in Different Directions

It has been a very crazy couple of days with Colorado joining the PAC-10 and Nebraska joining the Big Ten. I love college football, and to me this is exciting. My brain is over stimulated with the possibilities of teams joining the Big Ten and other conferences. This is what we do know at this point is the Big 12 has become the Big 10 in reality with the 10 teams left. Dan Beebe the commissioner of the Big 12 stated yesterday in a teleconference that the conference can do very well with the 10 teams they have, and could actually get a better TV deal than they currently have. That is not going to happen. Its been rumored all week that Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State will leave for the PAC-10 to make it a 16 team mega conference. Their has been some reports that Texas A&M may join the SEC instead. Maybe then Baylor would get into the PAC-10, otherwise they are going to be left out. Missouri has been talked about for a long time as a team to join the Big Ten. At this time, Big Ten is not looking at any other Big 12 schools, but that could change as fast as a green light. Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, and Missouri have to look for whats best for them as well. Kansas Athletic Director(AD) who was an AD at UCONN has apparently contacted the Big East. The Big East had their conference raided several years ago by the ACC. The Big East doesn't want that to happen again, so they are somewhat proactive and have discussed the possibility of having those remaining Big 12 North teams join the Big East for Football. Geographical it doesn't make sense, but neither does Texas and the Pacific. The Big East is way too big for basketball already to have those schools join because the Big East has a lot of teams that either participate in D-1AA football or don't play football at all. The other option is for the Big 12 to try to add teams, maybe get Arkansas to leave the SEC, and maybe try and add TCU, Utah, BYU, Memphis and Tulsa. That doesn't make the conference very strong football wise, but they would be able to keep their Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bid.
I think next week when the Big 12 South teams decide to leave the conference, that it will be too much, and that the Big 12 will end up folding. Then I think you would see the Big Ten go ahead and grab Missouri, and the other schools will start looking for conference affiliations. The left over schools would make the Mountain West Conference a lot stronger by joining. Boise State just joined the Mountain West as well. Kansas is a powerhouse for basketball, so its hard to imagine them in a lower conference, but the Mountain West would probably gain BCS status if the Big 12 no longer exists. For those who are not aware, Kansas and K-State are a packaged deal due to their state law. So you take one, you got to take the other.
For Iowa State fans, I think Iowa State would fit into the Mountain West pretty good. They would probably be more competitive in that conference in football, and basketball.
Next week when Texas decides what its going to do, then we will know more. College sports is a business, and football is the money maker. The Big Ten created the Big Ten Network and that generates $22 million dollars a year to each University. That is evenly divided, so Northwestern takes home as much as Ohio State. In the Big 12, Texas was taking home about $10-12 million, while Iowa State and some other schools got $6 million. That is where Missouri and Nebraska have been feed up with Texas coming to the Big 8 to make it 12, and getting more money than them. Texas will tell you that they are on TV more, so they deserve that money. To me that is just like baseball. The rich get richer. The Yankees will always be competitive and the Royals will struggle. The money is night and day between the two. Iowa State needs the money more than powerhouse Texas. So Nebraska likes how Big Ten does it, and you can't blame them. Jamie Pollard this week spoke out how ISU fans who have cable or satellite are paying the University of Iowa. That's an Iowa State/Big 12 problem. They could have created a TV network, but they didn't. That's not the Big Ten's problem.
For those who are worried about traditions like Nebraska/Missouri, Nebraska/Colorado, and potentially ISU/Missouri. The Brewers use to be an American League team and had the Twins and White Sox as rivals. They are now a National League team and have become rivals with the Cubs.The Seahawks use to play the Raiders, Chiefs, Chargers, and Broncos every year. They switched over to the National league and play Rams, 49ers, and Cardinals now. Things happen, change happens, and we move on.