Straight Talk on College Football Conference Realignment

Pat Forde of ESPN.com tells it like it is regarding the latest round of rumors surrounding conference realignment.

Exactly why are teams jumping ship?
Does the Southeastern Conference desperately need Texas A&M? Of course not. The league has won five straight national titles and has been the model of 12-school perfection.

Does A&M desperately need the SEC? No. It will be at a competitive disadvantage and will be leaving rivalries and relationships established decades ago.

He then provides us with the obvious reason for all the madness – $$$$
In the ego-driven quest for power and dollars in “amateur” athletics, everything else is expendable. Tradition, geographic sense, non-revenue sports, collegiality, regional flavor, and scheduling sanity — they’re all just for lip service now. None of the feudal lords believe in those quaint concepts anymore, no matter what they say.

The one redeeming thought in all this –  no matter how bad the powers that be continue to screw up the game, college football is still wildly entertaining:
And that is the ultimate reality here: College football is idiot-proof.

We still love it, no matter how poorly it is administered. The postseason is an unsatisfying, outdated mess that resists fixing. The makeup of the conferences is shifting toward gigantism that will only serve to make the most powerful bigger, not better. The have-nots are further behind than ever. The scandals are more pervasive than ever.

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