It is a shame to see a conference you support and speak highly about, be brought down to a point that would make them look desperate. I am talking about the Big 12’s current begging of Notre Dame to join their conference. A conference with universities that have been to more BCS bowl games within the past decade than Notre Dame, and, a conference that is second behind the SEC.
With the Big 12’s current public pleading for Notre Dame to join the conference, they have squandered any chance to bring other highly touted universities that offer better competition and great recruiting areas. I am talking about Florida State, Clemson, Georgia Tech., Virginia Tech., and so on. Any one of these universities would have been a great addition to the Big 12. In addition, it probably would have surpassed, and/or at least tied the SEC as the best conference.
There is no doubt that Notre Dame is good for television, but the other universities that the Big 12 could have invited, would have also been good for television.
Watching the Big 12 squander opportunities is sickening and sad, considering the opportunities they had to join with universities that would have extended the Big 12 power across the whole eastern part of the United States. The hand of the big 12 over SEC, ACC, Big East, and Big 10. To bad the Big 12 Presidents do not have this vision. Given the road college football is going, without expansion, a conference may die. Ask the Big East.
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