Well, it's only been a few days and somehow the Big 12 has become the bad guy in conference realignment.

What's up, everybody?

I'm Pete Mundo, Heartland College Sports.

We cover the Big 12.

Thanks, as always, for joining us and for being a part of the show.

I hate to take a breather over the last couple of days.

Just step back, take a breather, because this has been a roller coaster

of a few days across college sports. And the Big 12 comes out an enormous winner, but somehow

this false narrative has been created that the Big 12 ultimately destroyed and killed the Pac-12,

or the Pac-4, whatever's left of them.

And I'm sitting here, and, you know, I get it.

I've got a bias towards the Big 12.

I readily admit that, unlike the West Coast media hacks

who act like they're journalists when they're really just

packed well propagandists. I just, at least I tell you where I'm at and who I am and what I'm

rooting for and what I want to see happen. At least I just give it to you straight, right?

A lot of these national media folks are, you know, big regional guys

have just been so out of touch, whether it's the John Kanzano's of the world, the Stu Mandel's

the world. They started to finally turn on the Pac-12 in the last few days when they realized

it was a sinking ship.

I mean, we all knew it for like six months, and they were the last ones to know because they were buying the propaganda at such a record-setting pace.

I've never seen, outside of news media and political media, I have not seen propaganda be ingested by supposed journalists at that type

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