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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charleston Mountie" data-source="post: 129567819" data-attributes="member: 1427666">On this we agree. Texas and Oklahoma are the popular topics for exiting the Big-12 in a slow news cycle, as it always after Spring Drills and before Opening Day, but the truth is they both have limited options.The SEC and Big Ten have both followed a path on expansion that is 100% respectively. The Big Ten has not allowed a non-AAU member nor a university that did not border or was not already in a state currently covered by their footprint. The SEC does not expand at this point in time into any state that already hosts an SEC member and they seem to have a dislike for private institutions.This implies that Texas is out of the running by both and Oklahoma is out of the running because OSU is a second school in the current state and is not an AAU member. The only recourse either Texas or Oklahoma has is the Pac-12 and that must be telling the girl you left at the alter crying, "Hey, the last 5 years were a mistake and could you still marry me?"The current Pac-12 media model is worse than going it alone in Big-12 with individual Tier 3 media packages and who in their right mind wants to trot two time zones away and play when everyone else is too bombed to care or has already gone to bed? If you want to be noticed and be some body, a university has a much better chance if it plays in the eastern time zone. You can get by in the central provided you play basically to the eastern timetable, which the Big-12 and western portions of the Big Ten and SEC do.If the Pac-12 had a solid media package on the level of the Big Ten and/or SEC then those three along with perhaps Texas tech might head west because the media money would counterbalance the horrendous travel costs, but paying to travel and getting nothing for the effort is a poor foundation to move.Texas and Oklahoma can moan about life but they have no realistic options...of course this is where some will tout the ACC. Texas could go to the ACC and fully expect to call the shots because not even FSU is big enough to wear Texas-sized underwear, but it will really frost the Longhorns when tiny little Duke orders them to sit down and shut up, they run the show.Oklahoma and OSU can't go to the ACC, because the ACC have stupidly fallen into Notre Dame's Catch-22 where the doomers dangle a full membership as #15. We all know ND is never going to bite that apple but poor Swafford has yet to figure that out. With one slot left, you can read ACC message boards drooling over inviting in Navy because ND would surely join then. Let the laughter begin.</blockquote>

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