I chose no and here's why. With this new round robin type schedule the Big 12 will have, I see KU as having little to no chance at ever winning the Big 12 in football. If they're not going to be a top in the Big 12, I see little reason to play them. They won't be the creampuff that we normally schedule out of conference, yet they won't ever be strong enough to be much of a contender in the Big 12. It would appear by scheduling them that they could be a trap game for us. We either need to schedule a contender in OU or Texas, or we need to schedule a creampuff as a warm up to the Big 10 season.
With that round robin format, ISU, KSU, KU none stand a chance to win a conference championship. Missouri will find the going really tough to do it too, but in a really good year might be able to do it. The power is going to lie with Texas and OU for the most part. A couple of the other southern teams have about as much chance as Missouri, but they are longshots, too.
Tradition is out the window now, it is time to begin anew, with new traditional rivalries in the new Big Ten. OU is at fault IMHO for allowing our rivalry with them go when the Big 12 began. You couldn't blame them, they knew that they already faced the annual gauntlet of the Big 12 South. As far as KU, KSU, and ISU go, those games have always kind of been like in a movie, where the big powerful University in a state always faced their "State" school every year knowing it was going to be a blow out most years, not even close. Instead of them being a "State" school in state, they were just lessor schools in the border states. Let's face it, most years they did not really ever compete in the Big 8 or the Big 12 for the most part. They were just speed bumps on the schedule. KU had improved in football, I will admit, but even their basketball program is not the national power house that it once was.
Bottom line, it is time to move on. It is also time for those schools that are not really real competitors to fall by the wayside and find lessor conferences that they fit as a competitor in, whether it be an existing minor conference, or a newly created conference.