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Originally Posted by alnorth
This is not beneficial to OU/UT.
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It doesn't make Texas and Oklahoma more influential in the new conference than they were in the old. That would be nearly impossible. But what realignment has done is brought in a number of football programs which all slot in above the old Big 12 have-nots. The influence of the old, local Big 12 schools will be less than it ever was. The conference has effectively been replace by something new.
In truth the old Big 12 has died. The new conference is Texas, TCU, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Florida State, Clemson, West Virginia. Its like an alternate conference in the SEC's footprint. The local schools are geographically out of the way now, and surely not major players in the conference anymore if it's to be measured by football.
It's good that they still had a chair by default when the music stopped but this is going to be a very different world for the KC area schools.