Fort Worth, Texas ? Typically, death leads to fuzzy memories. Loving eulogies get heaped upon even the biggest jackals because nobody wants to speak ill of the dead.

So it says a lot that every day somebody else steps forward to kick the corpse that is the Big 12 Conference. Talk about your cranky wakes, everybody has a parting shot for this once-proud league starting with those whiners from Nebraska.

OK, OK, you have more than 14 TVs in the booming metropolis that is Lincoln. Are you happy? Now, go get your butts handed to you in The Big Ten and shut up.

The Children of the Corn gleefully obliged — following Colorado’s defection to the Pac-10 on Thursday — and jumped ship for greener TV dollars on Friday. Now Texas’ big-time decision-makers have a special meeting called Tuesday, ostensibly to talk about what SPF sunscreen to pack on trips West and how to run roughshod over that league. And while this has to pain the Okie boys to admit, U of and State have e-mails saying how they will be happy just to be trailer-hitched to Bevo.

Only Texas A&M seems to be breaking ranks, and that is to go Southeastern, not stay. A lot of politicking is going to be needed to talk Aggies into the Pac-10 by Tuesday, with that likely to be the official time of death.

See ya, Big 12. You will be missed.

I realize Baylor’s AD has been working diligently to save this train wreck, with help from Kansas and possibly OU. Have fun with all of that, because no amount of talk will prevent this mistake from being made. Yes, I said mistake.

Go ahead and laugh, just write this down and check back in hindsight for apologies: Everybody will miss The Big 12.

Left-behinds like Baylor and Kansas. And malcontents like Nebraska and Mizzou.

And even power brokers like Texas and Oklahoma.

Super Conferences make TV-deal sense, and dollars sense, and I am guessing, since we have not heard a peep from The BcS BS-ers, make sense for them and anti-playoff forces as well.

What the Pac-16 and Big Ten-Plus and Supersized SEC is not good for is college football.

The best part of Saturday games used to be the regional rivalries, and being able to drive to games, and going to work and being able to talk trash to your Frog and Bear and Pony co-workers. A good hunk of that was lost with the breakup of Southwest Conference, with what was left about to be obliterated.

I have heard defenses of this Pac-16, about how the Whataburger Division will have three, maybe four, Texas teams and only require travel as far west as Phoenix.

Credit for The Whataburger and In-N-Out divisions goes to Pac16Conference, a genius fake Twitter account by The Fake Larry Scott. It is the single best part of a demise that otherwise makes you cry.

So why is Oklahoma AD Joe Castiglione the only one who seems to realize what a potential disaster this is? He has subtly and not-so-subtly hinted that Texas and Oklahoma have a pretty good setup right now and have no such guarantees in sunny Cali and has tried to save The Big 12 as a result.

This is not about Sooner Nation being all right. They will be. So will the Longhorns, and whoever else finds space on their lifeboat. What is also true is neither Texas nor Oklahoma will wield as big of a stick in the Pac-10, where USC and Cal and Oregon have tenure.

Any doubt was erased when the real Larry Scott pre-empted Texas legislative interference by inviting Colorado and eliminating Baylor from consideration. Nor will there be year after year after year of championship games at JerryWorld, or a clear path to yearly National Championship games, or big decisions going through Austin.

Yes, The Big 12 is dead, killed by corn shuckers, Tigers and greedy blank-blankers. And while this wake has turned into a roast, look for everybody to be mourning its demise in hindsight.