Warning: Hot Takes lie ahead.
Former Cowboys Ride For Free managing editor Chris Ross now runs a site covering all of the Big 12, The Land Grant Gauntlet. It's a great site, full of news from every school and all that jazz.
While all of this recent Big 12 possibly evaporating or expanding has been going on, Mr. Ross has been fairly vocal in wondering out loud whether the conference actually has to expand. To be fair, he has a point. The conference makes plenty of money, gets teams into bowls and the conference is as strong as ever (in the sense that it's no longer just Texas and Oklahoma running the schedule with ease.