Tiers of the Big 12

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As a Big 12 Greek (Nebraska Alum, grew up in Kansas City and have a ton of friends at both KU and K-state, have visited OU, OSU, ISU, KU and KSU - the last two many times, met several CU greeks through various means...).

I'd also say that throughout the conference, there is a lot of quality, and actually splitting out the schools is requiring me to look at a lot of factors. There's not a lot of difference between #3 and #7, and there are plenty of reasons why a school could be higher or lower than I have them.


First "tier"
Texas (but from the few people I've talked to there, it's a stagnant system and losing ground)
OU - simply impressive, great numbers, great chapters, good environment
Mizzou - amazing history, chapter houses are phenomenal, benefit from having KCMO and STL to draw from along with Springfield.

Second tier:

K-State - gets the edge over Nebraska because of more houses being wet still - Manhattan sucks though
Nebraska - Greeks here get their shit done - dominate GDI's in grades and campus leaders, party well despite having to go off campus
OSU - similar to OU, but just not as good,
Kansas - Lawrence is a fun place, but there's a lot anti-greek hatred. Many greeks I know won't wear their letters on campus. Sororities are definitely farther along than many of the fraternities. There's a lot of ultimate frisbee played at KU.

Third Tier:
Texas Tech - Has to be better than A&M right?
TAMU - has to overcome the nutjobs in the Corps
Baylor - it's a religious school
ISU - the kids that aren't cool enough to go to Iowa end up at ISU. Ames is a hell hole. The ISU greeks I've met from a number of different houses just are huge nerds across the board.
CU - There's a reason why the Pac-10 has been rumored to secretly wish CU would join their conference - definitely more of a west coast hippie/surfer vibe than any thing else. I respect that their IFC has gone it alone without University recognition, but that's not a very good position to be in.