Seriously, I am no longer understanding of the lure to play at a lower level P5. Sure the kid gets to say he plays against OU and Texas every year but that also means losing to those schools EVERY YEAR. There's no hope of winning a conference championship at places like Tech and Kansas. That divide will only get greater in years to come I suspect. And because every game of every team is on TV somewhere, there's no fear of not getting enough exposure for the NFL (seriously, the NFL will find the players who can play). In the Big XII, OU and Texas are the only 2 teams who have a legit shot at the conference title every year. OSU will have their chances every 2-3 years, and after that no one else has a realistic shot at a conference title with any regularity. WVa w/o Holgersen is pretty much nothing more than Baylor now. Baylor with Briles hasn't been the same (although I think Ruhle had them in position to be great the next 2-3 seasons). KState will be good but they're not consistent enough to be great every year. Tech has been a big ball of meh since Leach has been gone with a couple of good seasons. KU is just all sorts of awful. I'd say the same for any of the local kids wanting to go to Arkansas to play in the SEC. They legit have ZERO chance to win the SEC West as long as Saban is around. Players have a better chance of making a NY6 bowl game with us than they do going to a lower level P5, especially if we can continue to build and maintain (and there's the challenge with a place like this and not paying even AAC market prices for coaches and coordinators.