Mega Conferences

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What is your feeling about colleges going to mega conferences (16 or more schools in a conference)? Now that Texas A&M has let it be known that it will be leaving the Big12 (now only 10 teams) next year, other teams in that conference have said they could also leave...Oklahoma and Texas. The Pac12 could be open to four more teams with the posibility of OU, UT, Texas Tech and Oklahoma State all going to the Pac12. If that happens, other conferences will likely want to grow as well such as the SEC, adding Texas A&M and possibly trying to get three more schools like Clemson, Georgia Tech and Florida State. That would leave the ACC in a very precarious position of having only 9 teams, so they would then likely try to recruit teams to fill those positions, of course moving north, possibly into the Big East conference. It's fun to try and see where all of this could go like we did last year and the year before. Personally, I'm not a fan of huge conferences. It takes away from the rivalries that could generate huge crowds. But let's say that the Pac 12 does take on 4 more teams, I can't see rivalries between teams like Texas and Washington or Oregon. It's already bad enough in the ACC with competition between Boston College and Florida State. However, I do realize that the main reason for making the changes is of course the almighty dollar.

C'mon college football fans, what is your opinion?
 
If your going to change conferences can they at least change the number in your names?
 
I don't like the whole idea. Traditional rivalries are what built the sport into what it is. Moving conferences messes a lot of those up. How many fans are gonna go from Florida to Texas for a conference game, and vice versa? It becomes even more absurd if a team like Texas joins the Pac-10.

It kinda seems like a strategy that worked so well for NASCAR, you know throwing away tradition and long time fans' wishes for a few more dollars and hopefully a few new fans. Ask NASCAR how well it worked out for them?
 
Benevolent One said:
I don't like the whole idea. Traditional rivalries are what built the sport into what it is. Moving conferences messes a lot of those up. How many fans are gonna go from Florida to Texas for a conference game, and vice versa? It becomes even more absurd if a team like Texas joins the Pac-10.

It kinda seems like a strategy that worked so well for NASCAR, you know throwing away tradition and long time fans' wishes for a few more dollars and hopefully a few new fans. Ask NASCAR how well it worked out for them?
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I agree....just another example of greed rearing its' ugly head again.
 
Rumor has it the announcement will be made tomorrow that Texas A&M will join the SEC and either Missou or West Virginia....
 
I am not a fan of all this, being a WVU fan, they are going to be left in whatever is left of the Big East and Big 12 it looks like...and it is more based on money and TV ratings than anything else....
 
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