Conference Chaos Kills College Sports

Harry · December 8, 2011

College sports as I knew them are dead, with decades of traditional rivalries having been sacrificed in pursuit of the almighty dollar. It explains why San Diego State soon might play a football game against Connecticut of the Big East Conference with a little asterisk alongside denoting conference game, though it is 2,983 miles between the two campuses. Same for Boise State. It is 2,594 miles as the potato rolls from Boise to Storrs, Conn.

San Diego State apparently will be joining the Big West in basketball and sports other than football. That's a shame if you enjoyed watching Lon Kruger match wits with Steve Fisher in recent years. The UNLV-SDSU basketball rivalry might soon go the way of the two-hand chest pass, unless the Rebels and Aztecs are paired as eight and nine seeds in the East Regional, with the winner to play Kentucky.

On Wednesday, San Diego State and Boise State of the Mountain West and Houston, Southern Methodist and Central Florida of Conference USA officially accepted invitations to temporarily keep the Big East in business.

These are the institutions and individuals I hold responsible:

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KRAM1 · December 8, 2011

He has a point.

shaft · December 9, 2011

The loss of SDSU-UNLV basket ball rivalry? That's what's wrong with college sports?

College football is built on rivalries first, then conferences. All the people whining about conference realignment should remember being in a difference conference doesn't preclude a team's ability to schedule their main rival.

Just a few of the end of the year non-conference mega rivalry games:

Florida-Florida State

South Carolina-Clemson

Georgia-Georgia Tech

So for anybody crying over the loss of Texas-Texas A&M, remember these teams could still play each other, but they have chosen not to. Is that the fault of realignment or just some stubborn AD/Presidents.