Biggest Losers on Earth

Just read a long story by Chip Brown on Orangebloods.com titled "How the Big 12 came back to life"...

Brown gives a day by day blow by blow and hour by hour detail of how he took over his kids playroom to form a command post, how he only slept two hours one night and finally the winners of the Big 12.

Link to his Stink'n Think'n

It is his thinking and the thinking of the Big 12 that this man is going to attack in this column. At the end of it Brown explains who the winners were in this conference two-step.

Brown wrote...

THE DESPERATE FIVE - The decision by Missouri, Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State and Baylor to pool their share of the Nebraska/Colorado penalty money ($35 million to $40 million) and give it to OU, Texas A&M and Texas costs these five in the short-term. But it worked. They helped save the conference, and now they are going to earn between $14 million and $17 million each going forward.

Why should the poor of the conference give to the rich? How can Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M be claimed winners while allowing "The Desperate Five" to bribe their way back.

What in the hell is wrong out there. Saddam Husein killed people, he killed a hell of a lot of people, one thing he did was take people who really didn't want to be part of it, who didn't have it in their heart and force them to kill someone, or several people. He handed them the gun.

I don't know a lot about the Big 12 or old Southwest conference. I do know what led to Nebraska leaving was the unfair cut of the conference pie that Texas and Oklahoma took.

Don't think any other conference in America does this. Some like to think of Texas A&M as the hero, the team that stood on it's own and helped save the Big 12.

But like Saddam Texas just made A&M complicit. There is no Robin Hood when they rob from the poor and give to themselves.

What the Big 12 is an example of is greed run rampant, there is no Robin Hood, just 'the hood'. Now ABC, ESPN and Fox are all complicit.

Not to mention the desperate five had to sell out seven million a piece to save themselves. If there is another conference in America that doesn't split the conference revenue evenly this man hasn't heard of it.

Why doesn't the NCAA step in and legislate that each conference will split conference revenue equally, sure if they allow a team like Texas to have their own TV network then let them have that.

How someone can claim winners in this blatant display of greed is beyond me.

Shame on you Texas! Because you are the Bully of the league...
Shame on you Oklahoma! You are along for the ride...
Shame on you Texas A&M! You sold out and joined the Texas greed...
Shame on you the Desperate Five! You cheapened yourself even more...
Shame on you ABC, ESPN and Fox! You bankrolled this pathetic conference...

And most of all, Shame on you NCAA for allowing something like this to happen.