Status quo numbers projected forward (using MWC TV payout) . . . it's a about a $6 million dollar hit for K-State.
Oh yeah . . . now I am convinced the final 1%, Texas, CU, A&M, Tech, OU and OSU really are going to the Pac-10.
Plan A: Basketball centric with decent to good football . . . Assuming that the Big 10 blows up the Big East, and also takes Maryland. Than Iowa State, K-State, KU and MU need to be on the horn with WV, Pitt, Syracuse/UConn (more on that in a moment), Louisville, and Cincinnati and a TBD. IMO Syracuse or UConn will be Maryland's replacement in the ACC. Anybody thinking otherwise doesn't understand the finances of college athletics. IMO Duke and UNC say not no, but hell no to Kansas in the ACC . . . in addition ACC schools already travel up to BC, so UConn or Syracuse are right in sync with their travel coordinators, on the Atlantic Coast traveling North to South and vice versa is much easier than traveling East to West.
Plan B the far worse option: Utah, BYU and TCU break way from MWC . . . those schools together with Boise State, K-State, ku, mu, Iowa State, Baylor, Houston and New Mexico form a new conference entirely.
Plan C: Immediately blackmail the SEC commish . . . ask Lew Perkins for advice on this.
Plan D: Seriously contemplate making Plan C, Plan A.