LOL. You're so desperate and confused. No, there's absolutely no tie-in between being a team fan and a conference fan. That's an emotional thing that YOU have, but then you pretend it's logical. Independent status sucked ... as I've said numerous times. I have no desire to ever see PSU as an independent again. I have no affinity for the history of it, either.
You can lie, and claim that I do, but that's a you problem, not a me problem. It's a fault in your argument, which is why you can't let go of it ... because you NEED it for what you're saying to make sense to you.
There are plenty of other programs in the Big Ten who could step up and be great, and I wouldn't despise them (at least until they gave me a reason to). No prestige and value of the conference would be lost.
Again, you're stuck in your illogical, emotional extremist mind ... you either root for the entirety of the Big Ten, and are a "fan" of it, or you root for independence.
That's so childish and immature. And not based in reality. But that's what you've built up in your noggin, and you can't let go.