Huge national following.

ROFL

:homer:

That would be evidenced by the fact that ESPN broadcast about 20 KU games nationally last season.

And needed KSU to come along to give it it's best ratings.

Hey, if you think the Josh Selby's of the world are really going to keep flocking to the MWC instead of going to the new 'SuperPac', more power to you.

I truly believe you are greatly underestimating the impact of becoming a mid-major. Maybe the SEC or even the ACC will toss you a life preserver, but if KU ends up in the Mountain West, say goodbye to being a national power (if ever you truly were. 2 championships in 50 years is hardly what I'd consider a powerhouse, but that's a separate debate...)

Notre Dame is your white knight. You'd better hope those fellas commit and stop this expansion talk soon...

KU's chancellor called the chancellors of Nebraska and Missouri just to tell them about Kansas's superiority and to remind them that basketball season was on the way.

"How many Final Fours do you have?" was the ending question.

I've already stated multiple times that I believe a ND commitment will end all of this.

You've also stated that basketball makes more money than football and that there's no way MU gets a Big 10 invite.

You're almost as good at this as CoMoChief.

I believed she called to encourage them not to throw away 100 years of tradition and rivalry.

Then again for MU you might as well throw away the last 100 years.

LMAO. How cute. "Tradition" and "rivalry." LMAO.

Notre Dame will not move just to be No. 12 and make the Big Ten a superconference.

If Notre Dame moves to the Big Ten, it will be as the fifth of five teams. They aren't going there unless the superconference movement is happening.

Too much income lost for them to merely be No. 12. The Irish only do it IF they have no other choice.

Has there been a non-KU fan seriously argue that ND is NOT better off as an independent?

You must have missed this article about profits for teams (basketball vs football). Here it is again.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/15/comm...sbiz/index.htm

That left Villanova with only a 38 percent profit margin, a bit below the combined 45 percent profit margin for the 64 tournament teams that report results (Air Force is exempt from reporting).

Together those schools had a combined $330.8 million in revenue during the 2004-05 school year, and $148.3 million in profits, even when including results from the 14 money-losing basketball programs involved in March Madness.

Based on those numbers, basketball is more of a sure money maker for schools than college football -- at least for the schools in the so-called six major conferences.

Really, I don't make stuff up. I swear...

They know they'll be ****ed over, they are looking out for themselves pleading to Nebraska mainly and MU not to leave.

Why wouldn't they? They kept going to Memphis while Calipari was there.