Here’s something you don’t read every day: Well done, Big 12 Conference.
As we come up on July 1, the 10-year anniversary of Missouri’s first day in the Southeastern Conference, this summer also marks a decade’s worth of countless Big 12 obituaries written to memorialize the "dying" league as four members fled for greener and more secure pastures.
But here we are in 2022, and after another wave of realignment, the Big 12 still is standing — or at least some fairly recognizable version.
Just about a year ago the SEC hijacked the Big 12’s two most valuable assets — Oklahoma and Texas — to eventually join the league and left behind a collection of perfectly good but hardly elite athletics programs across a 1,500-mile swath from Texas Tech to West Virginia.