I was thrilled at the prospect a couple of years ago, yet currently find myself not interested in the idea.
A few problems I see with the Big 12 and BYU:

·The big 12 seems to be a conference with very little cohesion, sense of direction or organization. They don't seem to agree on anything.

.Texas calls all the shots, struts around like a clock in a hen house and all the other members cannot stand them for it.

·There seems to be an annoying good old boy Texas faction w/in the conference.

. We would fall in the middle of the conference which would mean almost yearly losses to a handful of teams...we would find out what it felt like to be a san Diego st, Wyoming or Air Force of the WACMWC days of the past few decades.

·We would become a perennial whipping boy for tcu.

·The religious bigotry directed at BYU from all the southern institution would be unlike anything we have ever seen. It would remove most of the fun of the competition for me.

·We would have to play half of our yearly games in the fetid, swampy humidity of the south in boring, uninspiring destinations.

·The conference could easily implode in the coming years...how many teams will bolt for greener pastures when a better situation arises?

·The big12 seems to be endowed with an inordinate share of crazy, bigoted, greedy southern "gentleman".

·Much of the freedom BYU now enjoys would instantaneously evaporate with inclusion into a conference with a bunch of bigoted, greedy people who never really wanted us there in the first place.

The benefits I see are increased money (honestly, BYU does pretty well on its own.) And secondly, inclusion into the "haves". Admittedly, this is a significant benefit...however the fear that BYU could slip into irrelevance or even scrap the program in my opinion is ludicrous...If we win most of the games we are supposed to and a handful that we are not, and put together a special season every 5-10 yrs, independent BYU football won't be going anywhere soon.

I say stick with Indy, but make the necessary changes to the program that are needed to take its success to the next level.