![… As a fan and semipartial observer, I’m not happy about conference realignments. I didn’t like watching ACC commish John Swofford go all jackal on [Big East Commissioner John] Marinatto’s oblivious honeybadger (“Thanks, stupid! Thanks for the ‘Cuse!”) and I’m not thrilled that the Pac-12 (or Pac >12) could end up looking as randomly organized as the Capital One Mascot Challenge. I don’t like seeing longtime rivalries disappear or watching loyalties boxed up and placed on the top rack of a back closet, or getting one more reminder that there is no student in student-athlete.
Even the timing was terrible. We’re three weeks into a season that was supposed to be about nothing but football. The games would be our reward for enduring all of the NCAA investigations and new episodes of Law & Order: SEC that filled the summer. Instead, we get this, the cleat-wearing version of chaos theory.
This week for NBC Sports, it’s—what else?—conference realignment: why I hate it, what (highly unlikely) scenario would make it worth the trouble, and why Mike Krzyzewski is full of shit.
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… As a fan and semipartial observer, I’m not happy about conference realignments. I didn’t like watching ACC commish John Swofford go all jackal on [Big East Commissioner John] Marinatto’s oblivious honeybadger (“Thanks, stupid! Thanks for the ‘Cuse!”) and I’m not thrilled that the Pac-12 (or Pac >12) could end up looking as randomly organized as the Capital One Mascot Challenge. I don’t like seeing longtime rivalries disappear or watching loyalties boxed up and placed on the top rack of a back closet, or getting one more reminder that there is no student in student-athlete.
Even the timing was terrible. We’re three weeks into a season that was supposed to be about nothing but football. The games would be our reward for enduring all of the NCAA investigations and new episodes of Law & Order: SEC that filled the summer. Instead, we get this, the cleat-wearing version of chaos theory.
This week for NBC Sports, it’s—what else?—conference realignment: why I hate it, what (highly unlikely) scenario would make it worth the trouble, and why Mike Krzyzewski is full of shit.
Click HERE for the rest.
