I should have wrote some softball story instead, but...

So many of the expansion 'news' stories are the same story
repeated over and over. The stories are constantly updated,
and evolving like a real time drama , on the internet.

However, the greatest 'untold' story going on here, is reading
hundreds and possibly thousands of college football fans comments.

We are each possesed with the imaginative desire to play 'god' -
re arranging conferences at will. Second, we are each blessed with the
innate ability to trash the 'other' teams. And conferences.
The Texas fans and the Texas bashers are plentiful at leasst online.
The SEC fans are prodigiously at assuming that their conference is
the 'best' . They just need to add Florida State, or whatever...

We are right back where we started, with Nebraska going Big-10,
Colorado joining the Pac-10, and Boise State going to the MWC.
After all the remaining Big-12 schools chose to stay together,
some sense of after-thought and 'sanity' is returning to football.

Like hundreds of people commenting online, it was easy to send
Arkansas to the Big-12, or the Big-12 north to the MWC .
Or to raid Conference USAs' stash of Texas teams to fill up the Big-12.

After the dust has settled, the main topic seems to be ;
who will be the 12th team in the Pac-10 ? Utah is the most common answer.
Delve a little deeper into the subject; and I am faced with reality:
the Mountain West Conference is, and has been superior to the Pac-10
in football and mens basketball athletics for a few years.

I would think that prying Utah from the MWC would be impossible.
They have a good thing going, and there is no incentive that would lead them
to join the Pac-10. Is there ? Immediately after the Big-12 announced an
agreement to stay together, minus CU and NU , I came back to my senses.
The most logical, sensible team to add the Pac-10 is Colorado State.
It is simple: it is 50 miles from Boulder to Fort Collins.
I am hoping to 'dump' this line of expansion posts, and move on.
I will gladly accept any team the Pac-10 adds, just not Texas...thanks!