Where Is Kansas Going? The 50 Most Likely Destinations

With the Big 12 Conference crumbling, Kansas suddenly finds itself in a precarious situation. Talk is being thrown around that KU could conceivably join the Mountain West Conference, or even the Pac-10.

To get an idea of where Kansas is headed -- if anywhere -- you can follow along with our Jayhawks blog, Rock Chalk Talk. In the meantime, after no small amount of research, I’ve determined and ranked the 50 most likely destinations for the Kansas sports program. The full list is after the jump.

1. Mountain West
2. Pac-10
3. Big Ten
4. ACC
5. SEC
6. NBA
7. AAA
8. Douglas County High School Athletics
9. Screen Actors Guild
10. Canada

11. G8
12. Freemasons
13. Kansas City Royals Fan Club
14. The Big Sky Conference
15. SB Nation
16. The Confederacy (defunct)
17. Subway Sub Club (defunct)
18. The Baseball Writers’ Association Of America
19. Self-governing entity
20. Oceania
21. No Girls Club, a federation consisting of seven like-minded ten-year-olds in Davenport, Iowa (used to be eight but Joey moved away, vacating a spot)
22. The SimCity for DOS Tips & Tricks Club (defunct)
23. Great West Conference
24. The Libertarian Party
25. Conference USA
26. The No Cussing Club

27. The Goldeneye 007 GeoCities Web Ring (only as non-voting member)
28. Broken Social Scene
29. The Sons of Lee Marvin
30. Atlantic 10 Conference
31. MoveOn.org
32. Burger King Kids Club
33. FDIC
34. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
35. The Justice League (fictional?)
36. The Wet Bandits (fictional??)
37. The Kenosha Kickers (fictional???)
38. The collective of actors and musicians loosely associated with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch
39. The Tea Party
40. The Facebook group known as, “I HATE it when I go to the post office and the post office is closed!!!!!”
41. Ivy League Conference
42. The Association of American Mayors
43. Organ donor list
44. The One-Man Organization Of Eric Montross (open to new members)
45. Change.org mailing list
46. International Federation of Competitive Eating
47. The Knights Templar (chapter that governs the world)
48. The Knights Templar (chapter that is too disjointed and unmotivated to participate, won’t pay its dues, NEVER cleans up litter, etc.)
49. Lil’ Jon’s Supplemental East Side Boyz
50. America East Conference