“I don’t believe Missouri wanted the Big 12 to break up. Ultimately the others in the conference had other ideas and talked a different game.”
Missouri is not a power player in the Big 12.
However, the good news is that Missouri will win lots of games once they join Conference USA.
I thought the original move from the Big 8 to the Big 12 opened up a lot of potential problems and would be a mistake as we now have seen.
This whole deal is nothing but a BCS conference monopoly move by 3 or 4 conferences.
Makes me think that antitrust actions against the BCS would not be a mistake now with the creation of a handfull of mega conferences dominating tv time and revenue, and the majority of meaningful bowl games.