Conference Unrealignment

So it looks as though the Big XII will live on and not be split among the Pac-10, SEC, and other conferences. Your faithful 'Dlogger is happy about this, if for no other reason then because he relishes the opportunity to explain to uninformed college football fans how, as currently constituted, the Big Ten has twelve teams and the Big XII has ten.

And there's a little schadenfreude in there, too - now the Hawkins problem is squarely shouldered by the Pac-10, which serves them right for trying to pick and choose what teams they take along with Texas. But more giggles towards Nebraska, which shucked tradition for some quick bucks but will head off into the coming decades scheduling a bunch of rust belt schools that suffer from exactly the same long-term troubles as themselves: who will carry on all this winning tradition we have accumulated for a century, when we have no recruiting footprint anywhere warm, where people actually want to go to college?

And lastly, to Missouri: no hard feelings. Just make sure, next time you jump ship, that the ship you're swimming to has already thrown you a life raft.