Lots of points to make here.

This has nothing to do with greed. It has everything to do with survival and continued relevance.

What would the Picker suggest? The Big 12 is falling apart. Should OU and OSU stubbornly sit on a sinking ship loyal to a captain who is drunk at the wheel?

Should they wait until the only schools left in the conference are Baylor, Iowa State, and Texas Tech?

In a perfect world, yes, keeping the original Big 12 in tact would have been ideal. But why is the Pick giving praise to Nebraska and Texas A&M? They are the ones who set this train in motion which is forcing OU and OSU's hands. Also, how is a Texas A&M road trip to Florida any different than an OU fan's trip to California?

As much as fans may not like the PAC 16 as a new home, I'm fairly sure they would hate playing in a makeshift conference full of replacement teams like SMU, Houston, and Rice.

Also, who said that the rivalries have to die? USC and Notre Dame don't play in the same conference--don't they play each year?

The one thing The Pick has shown me is how much he is afraid of change. "I hate new uniforms! I hate new conferences! I hate anything that is outside of my comfort zone!"

Personally, I'd rather look at the positive side of things. I can't wait to have teams like USC and Oregon come play football in Boone Pickens Stadium. I'd assume some of the more open minded Sooner fans feel the same way.

First, fire the Big 12 boss.

Next, join any other conference besides the Pac However Many. Laz is right, the Big 10 would be a thousand times better than being bossed around by those in Loopyland.

Rivalry with Texas not important? Then I guess there's no need for Army-Navy or Alabama-Georgia or Michigan-Ohio State.Rivalries are what make the blood boil and the need to see the game. Otherwise we could thrilling match-ups like Colorado State vs East Carolina every Saturday. Come on Coach !

The move would keep in place five of the old Big XII. Nubs and aTm are already gone, with MO likely to join the SEC. That leaves the two Kansas schools, ISU and Baylor. Arizona is two states removed from us, kinda like Nebraska and Iowa.

Under the new format, we would likely drop back to 4 OOC games, which Pick-man wrongly suggests will decide future national champions. To be consistent, Picker should embrace the new opportunity to "schedule up" that he has been championing. As far as travel, we would only make one trip to the left coast every other year in football.

Everybody in the old Pac 8 stays in one division, OU and oSu recruiting in Texas is preserved, and everybody in the east division is happy, except for CO, and that's not such a bad thing.

Love this quote from Picker: "Idiots galore want OU and OSU to join the west coast psycho liberal conference." That's what I've been saying. And for the IDIOT Meximike, the Big 12 is not falling apart, there is one team leaving. Many more would probably like to be in a BCS conference. Big 12 is just taking its time in evaluating before inviting. This conference will survive....other smaller conferences may feel the dominoe effect but not this conference.
But PAC-12 should not even be considered. I think TCU made a mistake in joining Big East.
I'm not losing sleep over OU-TX either.....this rivalry was established long before they were conference mates and will continue!

Here is the question for the suits: which side of greed do they want to take? If they stay in the Big 12 and get, say, BYU to join to have 10 teams, thats not a super hard league and you are guaranteed a BCS bid and a better chance to play for all the marbles. OR join the mega conf, screw the fans, lessen your schools' chance of a BCS bid and get more $ albeit you are still splitting the pie more ways. It is disgusting how TV and the suits have made this deal TOTALLY about the $$. I get you gotta make money but how much and at whose expense? I agree with Mexi that home games with USC or Stanford would be cool but taking a 'road' trip with the fellas to catch a road game is virtually out of the question. Seattle is just a little further down the road than Lawrence...

I couldn't agree more. Unless a geographic solution develops, OU and OSU are in for a decade of fan alienation. The Big-10 is far from ideal, but I think it beats the Pac-10 or the SEC.

Yep, who cares about the fans?
Go Pac 16? & play in a division w/ TTech, Kansas, OSU, & OU, Zona & Zona St., Utah & Colorado? Sounds like a western Big 8. Colorado AD already “hot” over now having to perhaps play Big 12 leftovers instead of playing the California circuit each year.

Supposedly, the $28 million that A&M will leave on the table could be used to entice some Big "Least" schools & of course any non AQ/non BCS school

Fiesta Bowl also announced it still has a contract w/ the Big 12 through 2014 & there is no stipulation about the size of the conference or the number of teams in the conference as long as the conference holds together they have a guaranteed BCS Bowl.