Let’s say you’re a college athletic director of a major conference BCS school right now. If you’re a school that’s having their name tossed around in conference realignment discussions you probably feel pretty good. You know your school is wanted by someone.
But what if you’re school isn’t being mentioned? These have to be troubling times. A major shakeup is coming and it appears to be coming sooner than later.
Just yesterday there was a report that the Pac 10 is ready to offer six Big 12 schools, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Colorado a chance to join their conference. Big 12 officials meeting in Kansas City seemed caught off guard. While they’re trying to hold their conference together, apparently more than half the conference is trying to cut deals elsewhere.
While the Big 12 looks to be in a death spiral, it’s just the beginning. When it all shakes out, we’ll likely have four super conferences out there, but who and how the teams are aligned is still a huge question mark.
Would you rather see conference alignments stay the same or is it time for a major shakeup? It could be dicey for some schools.
I know I went to Kansas and at the moment things don’t look good for the Jayhawks. They have a ticket scalping scandal investigation going on and they come from a state with a small TV market. They do have a premier basketball program and that’s their saving grace, but where they’ll end up is anyone’s guess right now.
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