I've tried blogging before, but it was on the MLB blog site so all I could blog about baseball. While this was fun, I'm interested in blogging about other things too, so I came here. For my first post I decided to talk about something that has been on my mind recently, college football realignment. College football realignment isn't a new thing, but it seems to be happen more now then in the past. How do I feel about it, I actually think it's necessary for athletic and academic reasons, but it's mainly because of monetary issues. Pitt and Syracuse just moved to the ACC, a move to a much better football conference and market. It's hard to argue with this, because other than West Virginia on occasion this hasn't been a good football conference. It's a basketball conference, and is one of the best if not the best, but it's not a football conference. The ACC is a more well rounded conference and has more prestige, which is important in recruiting.
While talking about some good moves it's important to talk about the completely boneheaded ones to like BYU going independent. You go ahead and call yourselves the Notre Dame of the West, you're not! That model worked in the past, ask Notre Dame how they feel about it now? According to some sources they've been interested in the Big 10 and the ACC. One of their big arguments is they have a TV network that shows all of their games just like Notre Dame, but here's the big difference, Notre Dame has NBC, a channel anybody with a TV gets, BYU has their own network they hardly anybody gets. Well maybe people get it, but can anyone tell me what channel it is? I'm sure everybody can tell me what channel NBC is.
Here are some moves I would still like to see happen. BYU and Boise should move to the Pac-12 making it the Pac-14, with BYU going to the South and Boise to the North. TCU should forget about the Big East and go where they belong, the Big 12. Joining them should be Houston and SMU, both natural fits, this would make an even 12 teams, with Texas A&M joining the SEC. Also joining the SEC would be Florida State. Connecticut would join the ACC. I personally don't care what happens to the Big East, it's a useless conference which keeps getting an autobid they don't deserve to a BCS game, look at Connecticut last year! Finishing out the move would be Notre Dame and Cincinnati to the Big 10, both natural fits for the conference. Who knows maybe Navy and Army could join the Big East and Villanova might move up.
Anyways thanks for listening to my rant, hope you enjoy it and fill free to comment
