I would like to thank the Texas teams from the old SW Conference for breaking up the Big XII

When the SW Conference dissolved in 1996, the Big 8 thought we would do the Texas teams a favor by taking them in. When we did, they immediately started demanding concessions, treating the rest of the conference like they were doing us a favor. They wanted an unfair amount of revenue sharing, they wanted a championship game in football, they wanted an inordinate amount of championship games, tourneys and series played in Dallas, ignoring the fact that this put the northern schools at a disadvantage.

This relationship has become so adverse that first Colorado, and now Nebraska (Nebraska!) have fled the conference. Worse yet, the Texas teams are mulling another way of sabotaging the conference, namely leaving the conference altogether, essentially pulling the rug out from under the rest of the schools in the conference and leaving all of us high and dry.

Frankly at this point my opinion is fuck 'em. I was never a fan of the Texas teams coming into the conference and the way they have treated the Big XII like it was their own personal cash cow is a travesty. The trouble is, if they go, the whole conference goes.

So hey, Texas, Tech, A&M, Baylor, a hearty FUCK YOU for taking a once proud conference and ruining it for everybody, simply because you were greedy and arrogant assholes.

But let's not forget those wonderful cheaters..the first team to get the death sentence...THE SMU Mustangs!!

to Hayden Fry.

And yes, I must agree. 1-1 and nil-nil is no way to start the World Cup. An awful day.

It was their eyeballing the Big 10 that started this whole row of dominoes. I know Nebraska has been unhappy with the recent dominance of the South Division, but I still don't think they would've been quick to jump were it not for the instability created by all the expansion talk.

With respect to the revenue, I think it's really only Texas (and Oklahoma) that benefited from the revenue-sharing arrangement, since it dictated that teams that were on TV the most got the biggest shares.

And when it comes to the location for championship games and tournaments, I don't understand your complaint. There have been 14 CCG's in football--half have been in Texas and half have been in Missouri. The basketball tourneys (both men's and women's) have been played in Kansas City 9 out of the 14 years (and two of the other years it's been in OKC). It's true that the baseball tournament has always been in a south location, but it's almost always been in OKC.

What else can I say except that I couldn't agree more? Well, that and welcome to the Big Ten, Big Red. We're happy to have you.