For the first time in forever, starting next year, ISU will be on an equal footing with every school in the conference. No more will there be a Texas, OU, Nebraska or whomever that is only worried about themselves and their place in the football universe.
Sure, we are in the land of misfit toys, but we are all in this together, and no one school has a decided advantage over the rest of the league.
When I was looking at the Cincinnati board last night one stat brought that out, in their old league the Bearcats were something like 60-8 over the past 5 years or so, in the last 10 games they are 2-8. They are no longer the big fish in the small pond.
Maybe is time for ISU to be one of the bigger fish in our smaller pond we call home the B12. Many of us point out the EIU schedules year after year playing teams that are crap in the conference, I am looking forward to winning games even if it against crappy teams.
In the end no one asks who you beat, only how many you won!