The small but vocal group of people on this board are literally the only group of fans in major college sports who think their school will be the first and only P5 school to be demoted. It makes zero sense at all. Why continue to subject yourselves? If I were on a sinking ship and I had the chance to bail, I wouldn't stay on the ship and complain about the inevitable plight, that seems incredibly unnecessary.
We can't even read about our ridiculous, but not unprecedented, coaching situation without being subjected to this.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to have a fear of our conference falling apart and whatever conference we're in being 2nd rate. Over the past couple of years I've listened to every episode of 7 CFN podcasts. Five of them are national writer or heavily study this stuff like The Audible, PAPN, Campus Rush, The Football Four, & Wetzel to Forde. Literally every one of them say if the Big12 falls apart there's not going to be some meeting where the other 4 conferences draft B12 schools & everyone gets a spot. Someone's getting left out.
I listen to The Audible, Solid Verbal, Shutdown Fullcast, Heartland College Sports,Campus Rush, PAPN, and Championship Drive. I don't detect an air of inevitably at all. The reports of demise are generally from the same few places in the south and all of them recently are about OU being unhappy although these reports aren't coming out of the state of Oklahoma like they once did. Notice how we aren't hearing about UT wanting to leave anymore? What people either forget or conveniently ignore is that the LHN deal goes well beyond the Big 12 expiring GOR. Do people really think UT is just going to leave the LHN? That's amazingly stupid if anyone actually thinks that.
The Big 12 doesn't have any issues that other conferences don't. The Pac 12 has a nightmarish tv deal that the entire conference hates and a GOR that expires before ours does. The ACC is having to deal with the speculation that ESPN may not actually launch a dedicated network and just keep them at a digital network. The Big 10 is making all sorts of cash but they are no longer a regional power and are in the middle of an incredible identity crisis. The SEC has all of the money in the world, what happens when that isn't enough? What happens when Arkansas, South Carolina, A&M, Missouri, Ole Miss stop wanting to be second class citizens in their own conference not able to compete with $11 million coaching deals? None of the other schools in those conferences are talking about Conference USA or the Mountain West, hell no one else in our conference is doing that. The evidence does not currently match the hysteria here.
