If nothing happens, I still think the conference will be living on borrowed time. The feeling I get from the old Big Eight schools is that they'd rather just go back to the Big Eight and say "oh well" to the big money and prestige. I'd vote for that in a heartbeat, even if it meant we'd become a CUSA-level team.
OK, so maybe not, but I miss being in a conference that was enjoyable and fun and perfect for our situation. The Big 12 is only perfect for the South schools.
I'm still not keen on the Pac-10 move, but it's obvious that things will eventually fall apart in the Big 12. I can't fault us or Missouri for looking around. I just wish the North Division could defect and add six teams just to have control of things. Yeah, there'd be no power or money, but I don't care. Just take the best six of the MWC and Boise and go to town. With CU, KU, Mizzou and NU leading that league. I think it could be a BCS conference: Iowa State, Mizzou, Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska, Colorado, Air Force, CSU, UNM, Boise State, BYU and Utah. (My goal there would be keeping most of the Big Eight together -- its true that the Oklahoma schools have turned on us -- while grabbing the best names of western schools not in the Pac-10. It could work.)
Actually, that'd probably be a pretty decent league for football. KU would own it forever in hoops but that would be OK.