Big XII stumbled into a truth when all the remaining teams realized that they are getting a raise because two teams left. Of course, the danger comes when the new TV contract has to be negotiated without Nebraska and Colorado. However, based on preliminary discussions on the new TV contract (and the Big XII lagged behind others this past summer because their TV contract was the oldest), the remaining teams are expecting another substantial raise.
The Big XII learned that it had expanded beyond its optimal size. I think that the Pac-10 will realize this in a few years. I'm not so sure about the Big Ten since they were able to land a premier program (although not the one they really, really wanted).
Concerning the financial bonanza of a conference championship game, notice the Big XII with its long history of a conference championship game is making no move to try and restore it.
Frankly, had the Big XII desolved, I was hoping that the remaining northern teams (Missouri, Iowa State, Kansas, and Kansas State) would have migrated as a group to the Big East. Maybe adding Baylor and TCU to form an entry group of six.
There’s two problems:
1. NCAA passed a rule prohibiting football conference tournaments... unless a conference has 12 teams. Naturally, that had everyone scramble to get ten teams: the Big “Ten,” the ACC, the Pac “Ten.”
2. Big East Football had little to do with Big East anything else... until Big East football started using Big East everything else to attract more teams to itself, while booting non-Big East Temple and elevating Big East UConn. Suddenly, Big East Football is entirely within the Big East, but the rest of the Big East has those eight extra teams to deal with, making it very difficult to create a conference with enough Football power, but not so big as to lose any conference identity within other sports... this is what I tried to work out with my proposal.
I think Iowa State would have joined the Big Ten. The same possibly for Kansas & Kansas State. Missouri I do not know.
I would not be surprised if TCU might want to get in the Big 12. The majority of the games would not even be out of their home state.
1. NCAA passed a rule prohibiting football conference tournaments... unless a conference has 12 teams. Naturally, that had everyone scramble to get ten 12 teams: the Big "Ten," the ACC, the Pac "Ten."
2. Big East Football had little to do with Big East anything else... until Big East football started using Big East everything else to attract more teams to itself, while booting non-Big East Temple and elevating Big East UConn. Suddenly, Big East Football is entirely within the Big East, but the rest of the Big East has those eight extra teams to deal with, making it very difficult to create a conference with enough Football power, but not so big as to lose any conference identity within other sports... this is what I tried to work out with my proposal.