You weren't going to the Pac 10 dumbass.
1st - The board of regents wouldn't have let KU leave unless the conference fell apart. Which it didn't. So the option was never really there to begin with.
2nd - The Pac 10 didn't want you. You were plan C. Behind TAMU and even Utah. Stop trying to convince yourself otherwise.
KU leadership was just as desperate to appease the big three schools as KSU, ISU, MU, and Baylor. That's why they got on their knees and begged. They offered to give the big three the penalty without even being prompted. That doesn't say "Praise us for keeping this thing together." KU had no say in that, as much as you try to convince yourself otherwise. That says "I'm bending over big guys, here's the lube, please be gentle."
You shouldn't be trying to defend your school pride by commemorating the fact that you might have been the backup plan to the backup plan. Instead, you should be breathing a sigh of relief and saying "Thank God my school, which is apparently undesirable by other conferences, wasn't doomed to obscurity in the Mountain West" like the rest of the "Have-not Five."
KU was never going to end up in the Mountain West, dipshit. Quit acting like KU and K-State were equals in the conference realignment saga. KU was much more attractive to other conferences, and was about to get an offer to the Pac 10 before Texas told Pac 10 officials it was staying with the remaining Big 12 schools. You K-State retards really are something else... revisionist history knows no bounds.
You can argue that point until you're blue in the face. You're still wrong. You didn't even try to refute any of my points, because you know you can't. There's no facts or even credible rumors to suggest otherwise.
I've never seen anyone take such pride in the idea that they
might be the backup plan to the backup plan, IF Texas allows it, IF Texas A&M decides not to go, IF the board of regents allow it, IF Utah turns down the Pac 10.
Your own administrators have basically destroyed any argument you had by getting on their knees by promising the Nebraska/Colorado money to the Big 3. Rationalize it any way you want to, but saying "HERE, TAKE TWO MILLION DOLLARS!" is nothing short of begging.
