In My Onion

    In my opinion, the Big 12 Conference should blossom into a super conference.    With the addition of Colorado to the Big 12 in 2024, the conference will have thirteen schools. Rather than stopping with the addition of one more, either a Four Corners school like Utah or one of the Arizonas, I'd like them to keep going, to push towards building a revolutionary open league.         I've been intrigued with the concept of sports leagues that promote and relegate teams that are on the fence, and promotion and relegation are the key to this suggestion for the Big 12. With my proposal, the top performing programs would be in the upper tier with the best twelve teams from the previous season. The schools that round out the rest of this uber conference would battle it out in the contender tier with the top two schools moving up with the best, taking the spots of the teams finishing in eleventh and twelfth place. Of course, those programs would drop down and become contenders.