The Friday, and truly the entire week leading up to the Friday that Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF were invited to the Big 12 was a major blow to a lot of the remaining programs in the American Athletic Conference. For one program in particular, this came out of almost nowhere, even though they should have seen it coming.
USF made it to the Big East when the Big East was the dominant basketball conference and a BCS automatic qualifier, despite being an infant of a football program. Then, they sat back and did nothing.
They watched UCF, then transitioning from the MAC to Conference USA, build an indoor practice facility.