[Dr Jkel]

It still goes back to money in the end......Most smaller school, if not all, play bigger schools for one reason....MONEY. North Texas, Kent State etc....receive upwards of a million dollars for playing Alabama and for a smaller school wanting to come up that is the best revenue generator in the world. Same with other conferences sceduling smaller schools etc.....all about the money. Sure it is non-competitive, but NOT all the time...See Al-La Monroe, Michigan- App State, sometimes they actually win on the field.

This Big 12 issue is no different..From the outside looking in it appears that the conference members feel Texas has an unfair advantage with the LHN, and a decided financial edge. I really do not think it affects OU, Ok St, and the bigger schools but the smaller ones in the conference are feeling it the most.

In this BCS era teams are all about winning their conference, especially when their conferences are strong....NONE of it is fair and don't make that mistake of thinking it is. Here is why I say that. Right now you have several conference championship games, but not all........Take the Big 12 this year, Big 10 and Pac 10 last year...they do not have a conference championship game......a decided advantage for them especially if they are in the running......The extra game is a BIG risk, for injuries etc....McElroy got his ribs broke in the game with Florida....and it was so obviuos that it affected him in the BCS N/C game.

The new super conferences are coming and then you will basically have 64 teams fighting it out from 4 conferences......Do you really think that each conference will have the 64 best schools? Not even close.....SEE SEC this year....Ole Miss, Auburn, Miss St, Ole Miss.....Sure some of them have not lost...YET

But it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.....