If you're looking for that end-date for the constant musical chairs in the world of big time college football (and basketball) realignment, stop your search: It ain't going to happen. this thread is up to about 148 pages. the meaning is clear: realignment is here for eternity. nothing is going to stick. and, then again, why should it? If you can casually throw away a 100 year + conference association and rivalry, such as Kansas-Missouri or Texas-Texas A&M, then how difficult will it be to discard the association you created like, well.....yesterday (as collective amnesia takes over and nobody remembers anything that happened before last Tuesday)? some think this is all heading for some sort of "super conference" set-up with 4 behemoths, each with 16 teams, totally dominating the sport and, more importantly, the $$$$ that it makes; perhaps MSU and Oregon are the luckiest schools around; their school color is green and green is the color of choice. but think again if you believe that if we arrived at that 4 conferences/16 teams each will be some sort of a freeze frame. It won't. It would be a total disaster, destroying everything in its path on its road to monetary greed. first of all, those 16 teams in a conference are way too big for cohesiveness. Second is that NFL style, those 16 teams will be slotted into 4 divisions, making the regular season (once the joy due to its purity in only two sports, our most traditional of all: MLB and college football...but now part of none) into something meaningless: you come out on top of a group of 4 and you are a "player" in the national championship. Talk about diluting the play-off field, rewarding mediocracy, and killing interest (as it surely will). College football does not exist in a vacuum; it is as much a part of our greed-generated society with finance being the only bottom line and tradition tossed to the wind on a wim as all our other institutions. In a world where Missouri can join Florida, West Virginia can join Texas Tech, Penn State can join Nebraska, and Colorado (out there in Boulder and the High Plains, not the Rockies) can join Stanford, nothing really makes sense, does it?
