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Originally Posted by Bowser
Are they really that brilliant, or was Beebe just that damned incompetent? That's not to say what Neinas has done in a very short period to turn what looked to be imminent disaster into a strong base, I won't take that away from him.
Of the four original schools that bailed on the Big XII, how big of a role did Beebe and his (in)actions play?
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I think it's mostly Beebe's incompetence.
I said in the original realignment thread that it was absurd that the B12 was getting picked clean. They had 3 legitimately historic football powerhouses and a bunch of very good supporting schools at varying degrees of ascendance. They also had a great geographic location that should allow them to draw from any quadrant of the country.
Instead, they essentially took every advantage they had and somehow made a disadvantage of it. They lost Nebraska because they treated them like a stepdaughter and let the remaining power teams in OU and UT start to kick the rest of the league in the dick even harder. Suddenly their geography is turned against them because they're adjacent to nearly every major conference. Then the fact that they have strong secondary schools like A&M, Mizzou, and Okie Lite getting partial cuts of the revenue was turned on them as well and their response was "eh...**** 'em".
They pulled out the biggest gun they had, pointed the stock at the rest of the conferences, and immediately shot themselves in the chest.
As a staggering conference that damn near imploded, they
still had enough advantages to get their feet back under them and get things moving again once they didn't have a complete moron in charge.
Mizzou still moved to the nicest neighborhood in town, but the B12 did a hell of a job of getting out of their own way and finally capitalizing on all the good things they had going for them, as opposed to pissing it all down their legs.