Yep, Thompson has essentially created Frankenstein setting up class warfare in his own conference.

What's happening out west is a new take on the same script. The West could have become what the Big East had hoped to be (post C7 split), but the western schools are so dysfunctional that they've already F'd that up.

A MWC with Boise, SDSU, BYU, Tulsa, Houston, SMU and UTEP would have become the best of the F'd Five, but they can't get out of their own way. Now, there is no way Houston or BYU is going to walk into that cluster.