Zero Hour?

Code Blue has been called and the docs are working on what's left of the Big 12.  The Priest has been sent in to sit with the family.  The Big 12's gotten off the operating table before, but this time it looks grim.  Here is what folks are saying:

(1) 'Cuse and Pitt have been accepted into the ACC.  As the article states: "The Longhorn Network started all of this."  Only thing standing in their way: 27 months and 5 million.  That's the Big East exit fee and time delay in getting out of their conference contract.  The 5 million ain't a problem, the 27 months is.  College Football should look "interesting" next year.  As this article state, the Big East is dead. 

(2) The Big East is dead.  Oh wait, we heard that before.  Money quote: "There's a pattern here: The ACC gets what it wants, and the Big East settles for padding its ranks with the scraps."

(3) In the first  good news I've heard in a while, Out Kick the Coverage says W. Virginia is not headed to the SEC.  It's worth clicking on the link to see the pic.  The premise is the SEC President's won't let a University into the league who is, nationally, barely considered a University.  Seems reasonable to me.

(4) I mean, if you burn couches after wins and losses, I don't know if you deserve to be in the SEC anyway.  The fire marshal has declared that all residents must put any potential kindling locked inside their homes before the game begins.  Again, seems reasonable to me.  The fact that he has to ask/enforce this rule, perhaps a bit unreasonable.

(5) Know an honorable man running college sports?  Wait a few minutes.  Not a particularly insightful article, but one that points out how crazy this mess has become.   

(6) Also not insightful: anything coming out of kU's normal circle of sports coverage.   It's almost as if kU and k-State's sports columnists are just walking around in a haze.  If we think we should be nervous at Mizzou, let's just say our friends are feeling worse than we are. 

(7) Mizzou has lots of options, but few certainties, says PowerMizzou.  Meanwhile, Saturday's game at OU could be our last one.  What won't be sad is putting a mark in the loss column every other year since the 60's, what will be sad is the loss of yet another rival.  On to the game this Saturday...21.5 points.  Are you serious?  I know it's a road game and I know they are #1, but really?  Three touchdowns?!? 

(8) I don't know Frank the Tank and I really don't know what he is trying to say here, but I thought I would pass it along for all to see.  Somewhere in the article he's trying to say--I think--that Texas might go indy in football but put all other sports in the ACC and then Notre Dame might do the same?  Good luck getting through it.  It was an idea that hadn't been presented before.  I thought you deserved to know.  You're welcome.

(9) Shocker: Mack Brown wants to keep making up the rules as he goes along and keep getting handsomely rewarded for it.  In other words, he prefers the Big 12 to stay together. 

(10) Not-a-Shocker: T Boone Pickens?  Still an asshole.  His awful little school is lucky to be in the same state with a really good one. 

(11)  A Rock-M-Nation columnists (and founder?) hits the big time with SB Nation.  Congrats.

(12) At Michigan, grandma's participate in shotgun beer races.  Neat?  Neat.

(13) Some random from Mercury News in the Bay Area, CA just tweeted that Pac 12-20 has Mizzou high on its radar.  So that could mean Texas & T Tech or OK and OK State aren't going to the Pac 12-20.  Or it could mean nothing at all...bringing us to...the summary.

Summary
Conference realignment has been a lot lot like a trip to Vegas: Lots of high, lots of lows.  Some laughter, some tears.  Some excitements, some fears.  Right now, though?  I just want to get off the ride.  Let's just get this over with, says the BoCoMo Trib.  To quote: "And as exciting as this realignment ride has been, I’m ready to reach the destination."  Me too.  I'm ready to go home.  Where ever that home may be.