Could not agree with this post more. The day it was announced, my fandom took a hit that's never quite fully recovered. I grew up laughing at them too. We've been sitting on the side at the kid's table since the day we joined. In the Big 12, there were some bullshit shenanigans, sure. But we definitely sat at the grownup table in the center of the room.
Opposing fans were MUCH more like-minded. Some great, long standing rivalries with some great programs still existed. Now we have a bunch of, I'll just say, not like-minded opposing fans and a forced rivalry with a team that's never won anything of substance. And we've been drug down to or below their level. On all of it.
I don't think the addition of the west coast teams is going to help any of it either. If anything, it will make it all worse.
And I don't even really buy the whole "but, but, but more money" argument either. Yes, there's more money. That's a fact that's not disputable. But at what cost? And what has it gotten us? Last time I checked, all the Big 12 programs programs we ran away from still have a football program. They didn't shut any of them down because they had to file bankruptcy. In fact, 3 different teams somehow managed to make it to the CFP since we left. Exact same number as the the SEC, ACC and yep, you guess it, the B1G.
Ugh, I could go on and on. And I probably have. It all just sickens me.
