Big 12 survival mode continues. Add a championship game. Expand by two or four or 17. Extort the networks, who heretofore were blood brothers. None great ideas. None guaranteed bonanzas. None are the ideal. The ideal is in the past. The ideal is an Oklahoma-Nebraska conference championship game. The ideal is Texas A&M-Texas on Thanksgiving. The ideal is Missouri basketball in Kansas City for the tournament or Lawrence in the Phog. Since the departures of bedrock members, the Big 12 has no ideal. Some would say no idea, either, but the real problem has been no ideal. All the options are poor....
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