Big 12 fans don't like it. Big 12 administrators do. What's the disconnect?

A little different of a video than I normally do, as you can probably tell. Very little editing, very little scripting, just a quick conversation about what the new Big 12 football schedule matrix announced by Brett Yormark a couple weeks back gets right and wrong. Mainly just a K-State fan waxing poetic about a game that really isn't all too important in the grand scheme of college football. But it's important to me, dang it.

Lots of Big 12 fans are displeased with the schedule's lack of guaranteed rivalries for all but four games. Since Farmageddon is one of those games, a newish sort of rivalry between K-State and Iowa State that has been played for over a hundred years, I felt like I could use my platform to yell at a cloud for a little bit and write some fanfiction about the pod scheduling system. I'm reminded of Master Qui-Gon a bit, though: just because I have the ability to speak, doesn't make me intelligent.

But I'm not alone. Oklahoma State and Texas Tech's new game isn't protected. The three eastern schools, West Virginia, Cincinnati, and UCF, don't have any protections to help their travel either.

So what are your thoughts on the new schedule? Good? Bad? Do I and thousands of other Big 12 programs need to get with the program or get out of the way? Let me know in the comments.