No surprise, but Texas A&M tidied up its house the past few weeks and was accepted into the Southeastern Conference … though with a condition.

In a statement released Wednesday morning, the league said it unanimously approved A&M’s application but under the condition that the remaining Big 12 schools offer no roadblocks to the Aggies departure.

By every available indication, Baylor is throwing up gang signs and doesn’t want to let the Aggies out the door. We’ve touched on this before, but there’s no way to ensure civility over chaos, no authority figure to oversee these conference shifts, no figurehead to which actors go to to have their actions approved.

Someone somewhere was going to stand up and say, “Whoa. What about the rather significant consequences of this action? How are we to deal with them? What about us?”

Baylor — or whoever; let’s assume from here on out it is the Bears and their university president — isn’t suing, or threatening to sue, to get into the SEC. There are interests to protect and if the A&M shift precedes moves by some combination of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas Tech, then the Big XII is finished and schools like Baylor and Iowa State are in serious, serious trouble, especially when it appears the Big East has offered Kansas, Kansas State and Missouri a soft landing.

And look beyond them. Conference realignment and polarization puts into peril programs that want to grow into one of those contenders — like a Baylor, but also an Appalachian State. And don’t dismiss the idea what Baylor is doing is as much of a message to the Pac-12 and the schools that might bolt the Big XII for the Pac-12.

Or for the SEC.

Last night rumblings started and grew to suggest the SEC was ready to target Missouri and West F. Virginia as the 14th team. Baylor then postured. What if Baylor agrees to drop the suit under as long as the SEC doesn’t target a Big XII school as No. 14? That would preserve the Big XII since Missouri calls that conference home. Then the SEC has one fewer school to choose from, if those rumblings are true.

Suppose they are, just for this exercise. I have a serious question for you and I want you to think over an answer and explain it with detail and in depth: Do you want WVU in the SEC?