June 25, 2015
It isn’t summer until an athletic director or school president sparks up a conversation about conference realignment. In the latest edition of speculative musical chairs, Oklahoma University President David Boren talked to the media on Wednesday about a number of things, but what grabbed headlines is his awareness that the Big 12 needs to grow to stay relevant on a national stage.
The Big 12 doesn’t have 12 teams. There are inherent advantages in that because the pie gets split less with fewer teams. It also allows the Big 12 to play a round-robin schedule that doesn’t favor any school or cause outcries about which side of the conference has the tougher schedule.