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NCAA conference realignment to help the future of college sports, or is it the beginning of the end? (Con view)

The new “Super-Conferences” aren’t right at all. They aren’t geologically correct. What is Colorado doing playing on the West Coast? And if TCU is located in Texas, why are they playing in the Big East? They aren’t even named correctly. The PAC-10 now has 12 teams and so does the Big Ten, but the Big 12 only has 10.

The worst part about the sudden “wanting a change of scenery” is that it’s driven by the root of all evil……money. The money-hungry universities aren’t even taking the time out to think about the fans, the people who actually pay all their hard earned money to the university. They forgot about the most important part, the student-athletes. Take TCU as an example, they now have to travel half way across the country for every away game that they play because of their new conference.

Think about the rivalries that are being lost in the giant jig-saw puzzle of conferences. Texas A&M is now a part of the SEC and will join the conference next fall, but will they continue their rivalry games with Texas and Texas Tech? Doubt it, the SEC is tough enough so they probably won’t continue to schedule those games, and with that being said, there goes decades of being bitter rivals down the drain.

Syracuse is now part of the ACC. When I think of Syracuse, I think of basketball in Madison-Square Garden, cold weather and those infamous Big East tournament games. But how are those games supposed to be played if Syracuse is in Greensboro, NC playing for the ACC championship? The ACC already has its teams and fame in Duke vs. North Carolina.

It’s a never-ending cycle, with all the talk of who’s leaving comes the talk of who’s going to replace them.

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