On your mark ... get set ... go.
When the Big 12 Conference announced Tuesday that it will begin exploring candidates for potential expansion, you could practically hear the starting gun going off inside the athletic departments of more than a dozen Group of Five schools.
Let the stampede begin, an unbridled free-for-all for money and exposure.
Let the Big 12 stampede begin, an unbridled free-for-all for money and exposure.
For the Have Nots of Division I college athletics, Big 12 membership could provide the last golden tickets, last seats on the gravy train, last invitations to the platinum-members club – whatever analogy you care to make – that could come along for a good long while.