Conference Craziness

Boise State to the Mountain West, we saw them changing conferences with that football powerhouse they have manufactured up there in Boise, Idaho. Nebraska to the Big Ten, ok whats going on? Utah and Colorado to the Pac-12, more conference changes? Now the latest Pittsburgh and Syracuse to the ACC, this is starting to put a damper on college athletics. With all these teams switching conferences, many conference rivalries are being thrown out the window.
It's all coming down to the money. If a school is not happy with the money that they are earning in their current conference, schools are starting to sell their athletics programs to the highest
bidder. In the end it is not laid out that simple, but it has a lot to do with the amount of TV money received per conference. Texas isn't so urgent to leave because they just launched their own network, and other conferences don't want to inherit something that is going to take away from their profits. But when did "conference hopping" become the answer to all of this. It used to be that you would change conference if you wanted to move up in the competition, or vice versa. Now it's all about the money.
Why must we see great rivalries in the Big East destroyed for the simple departure to another conference just for the money. There is no longer going to be those great conference battles as the Pittsburgh Panthers take the court in the Backyard Brawl against West Virginia, or those crazy games against the UConn Huskies, not to mention the wild ones that took place against Notre Dame. What about when Syracuse would play in-state rivals St.Johns in MSG. I can't remember the last time that a Syracuse-UConn basketball game wasn't entertaining. After this season will the Carrier Dome any longer be a Big East arena. With all this flip-flopping, and switch-swapping going on, these schools Athletic Directors should have taken the time to look at some of these great rivalries they would be ruining. In the name of College Basketball I do not agree with all these conference changes.

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