History tends to repeat itself, and conference media days have been a hotbed for déjà vu.
Two years ago, then Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby stood at the Big 12 Media Days podium and listed reasons why conference realignment wasn’t one of his top concerns, even though his conference had been raided twice before.
“It doesn’t appear to me that the motivation is there at this point in time,” Bowlsby said. “Not to say it couldn’t happen, but it’s not one of the things that keeps me up at night.”
Then, it happened. OU and Texas declared for the SEC just days later, without so much as a clue.