Look, I don't care what the rest of you people think, we Clevelanders aren't grasping at straws. Everything is totally looking up for us. And to top it off, the Browns have just made a move that I'm pretty sure guarantees us at least three Super Bowl titles. So step off.
The only conference coming out of this whole Big12 dissolution in any kind of positive light is going to be the Mountain West. The Pac-10 with schools like Oklahoma and Texas or (as I just read on ESPN) OU/UT or A&M going to the SEC is absurd.
Let me say that again.
ABSURD.
But, back to the Mountain West. Boise State is joining the party, which I've been advocating them to do for a few years now. That's going to put them in a conference that has competition, rather than whatever crap teams are even in the WAC besides Hawaii. Nevada? Psh. Now we can see what they're made of when they have to play Utah, TCU, and BYU every year. I'm excited.
Also, there's this talk about the MWC picking up Kansas, KSU, and Mizzou. While Mizzou is a bit of a stretch (they would have to become the Mountain West-of-the-Mississippi Conference...MWotM...I like it), I don't really have much of a problem with it. Those are pretty decent football teams, at least through the past few years, so it's probably just going to increase the strength of the conference.
Also, as has been pointed out to me, the Rose Bowl is completely fucked. I hope everyone's ready for Nebraska v. Texas in the f'ing ROSE BOWL every year.
I guess we can add "prima donna wide receivers" to the list of people who don't take that question well, right after "several ex-girlfriends of mine" and "that kid from the Revere lacrosse team who got ejected from the game for punching me in the head."