I really want to talk to you about academics, but first let me quickly remind you about UCF's location — smack, dab in the middle of the third-largest state in the union and perhaps the No. 1 recruiting hotbed in the nation. The Big 12 is the only conference in the southern part of the United States that doesn't have a footprint in the Sunshine State. If your conference has a vision of starting a Big 12 Network someday, it needs to have a presence in our football-fanatical pigskin peninsula.