BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

Not to mention that destroyed John Swofford's attempt to get Florida State and Miami in a game on his favorite day of the year. Which never happened.

That's also why the football schedule had a permanent game against a school in the other division. What Swofford wanted for these schools to face each other twice. Florida State-Miami as often as possible in football, and Duke and Chapel Hill in men's basketball. Wash, rinse, repeat ...

His attempt to stack the deck was ridiculous and stupid, which made laughing at him all the more fulfilling.

 

If they could somehow get Notre Dame to join for football and add West Virginia, they can have a North Division of Notre Dame, Louisville, Pitt, Syracuse, Boston College, West Virginia, UVa and VT and a South Division of the NC schools, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Miami and Florida State. That would make sense.

But what would probably make even more sense is to rename the conference (let's say, the "Big Continent"), and then have two divisions: the ACC and the Big East (in my world, the non-football conference with that name would find another moniker, since there's nothing "Big East" about Butler, Marquette, DePaul and a school in Nebraska). The ACC would be the NC schools, Virginia, Clemson, Georgia Tech and FSU. Effectively the conference from 1991-2003, minus Maryland. The Big East would be BC, Syracuse, Pitt, WVU, Louisville, Notre Dame, Virginia Tech and Miami. Blacksburg would howl and Coral Gables U. might shake its head, but this would make a heck of a lot more sense than the current alignment.

 

This is all proof that we really learned nothing ... and that things and ideas are cyclical. Did the former WAC become unwieldy, which is how the Mountain West split off from the old WAC? And how about the former Big East basketball conference before a bunch of the old guard finally got more of the Big East back to something that was originally envisioned 40 years ago? Yes, I get your point about a school like Creighton now in the Big East ... and, FWIW, I agree.

But the ACC is not exactly being smart about this from a geographical perspective. I mean, traveling from South Bend to Coral Gables? Chestnut Hill to Coral Gables? Tallahassee to Syracuse? And now talk about taking on school in Norman and Austin? We always knew it was about money ... but the ability of these idiots to try to pass this off as anything and everything else is, frankly, insulting.

 

As I noted above, that’s what the old Big East schools were against. They wanted more access to the southern recruiting hotbeds of Florida and Georgia, not playing their Big East buddies they originally separated from (Virginia Tech and Boston College left nearly a decade before Syracuse and Pitt). Miami wasn’t too keen on being grouped exclusively with its old Big East “rivals” either.

 

Agreed. But with a slightly different arrangement that is still based on geography, they will still get down to Tallahassee and Coral Gables ... with any luck, more than once every seven years. In the process, the travel would be more reasonable. Some of the trips in these more widespread conferences are comical. I know they're not traveling by train or stagecoach ... but the fact is that many of Olympic sports don't jet from place to place. If they do, it's not by charter, and do you think anyone cares about how much class and study time they miss?

 

The Big Ten is pretty full of itself. While it might add, I don't see any of its teams peeling off like OU and Texas are

 

Well, yeah. It has more than 10 schools. It's pretty ... full.

 

Coupling football arrangements with the remainder of an athletic conference will eventually come to be seen as unsustainable and unnecessary. Even before expansion got out of control, traveling from say Lexington to Starkville for a day of tennis was already a dubious ask, much less something like the Norman to Gainesville run coming up soon.

 

The more you know …

 

Texas Tech will fit in nicely in Conference USA. It will form an almost perfect right angle to the hypotenuse of North Texas and UTEP.

 

I was told there would be no geometry.

 

In both the made-for-TV movie "The Day After" and the ill-fated CBS TV series "Jericho," Lawrence, Kansas got bombed.

I can't imagine a bigger nuke than the one UT and OU are dropping on Kansas now.