I haven't always agreed with VC in the past, but this post and the video hits the nail right on the head. That video also hits right at home when Mizzou and their governor declared that the Big 10 had invited them and they were bolting!
I have no dillusions about the Valley, what it is, or the potential, but the league is made up of 10 schools, all with faults and strengths. If you think the league is weak, some of that weakness comes from home, your school, your team. You don't automatically become better because you have better teams around you. In fact, you might simply be the fat chick in the group of hotties. The hotties associate with you only because they think you make them look hotter, all the while, all you do is keep the dudes away from all of them, as no guy wants to get stuck being the wingman the night you are in the group.
Too often fans look to the pasture over the fence and want to graze there. Sometimes the grass is greener, sometimes it is better, but most of the farmers that will allow your cow to graze on their grass have similar cows and similar results at the market. The rancher of champion angus will not allow your common, black, black white face steer anywhere near his prized pedigree herd. Usually, when you look closely at the grass in the meadow you can actually graze on, it isn't any better. It might even have some weeds you don't see.
There are three rules that I live by, never get less than 12 hours sleep, never gamble with a guy who has the same first name as a city and never get involved with a chick with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Stick to that and everything else is gravy!
