All of the outrageous conference jumping, which is likely to ruin the once-terrific Big East Conference, is making all of collegiate sports seem, well, stupid. It is getting hard to take the whole mess seriously.
Does anyone who is in a position of authority and responsibility at the NCAA have a thought on what is happening with athletic conferences? Is the NCAA really content to allow teams to join any conference and to then let the chips fall wherever they may?
This crazy conference hopping is an extremely serious matter that stands to destroy the growth and the momentum that collegiate sports have been enjoying for years.
I think it is well past the time when the NCAA should have stepped in to help decide if certain teams should be allowed to badly diminish or actually destroy conferences.
It might be the Big East taking a bullet today, but I have no doubt that other conferences, including the ACC, the Big 12 and maybe the Pac-12, will soon see the day when formerly committed and loyal members of their conferences jump ship -- perhaps in the dark of night.
I keep waiting to hear something -- anything! -- from the NCAA. But all I hear is silence.
Your only hope is Congress or a like government agency stepping in.
There are loads of alum/fans who are loving this right now. Ruining one conference is good for another unfortunately.
I have heard countless fans of also-rans of BCS conferences in the various sports enjoying quite a bit of schadenfreude due to this. It's all they have sadly. Maybe it will make their also-rans good one day.
Quote from: MU Avenue on November 22, 2012, 07:37:50 PM
Does anyone who is in a position of authority and responsibility at the NCAA have a thought on what is happening with athletic conferences? Is the NCAA really content to allow teams to join any conference and to then let the chips fall wherever they may?
The NCAA has no say in the conference jumping.
It's like asking the Wisconsin state police to do something about the current Hamas/Israel conflict.
Quote from: MU Avenue on November 22, 2012, 07:37:50 PM
This crazy conference hopping is an extremely serious matter that stands to destroy the growth and the momentum that collegiate sports have been enjoying for years.
You're right it is serious. The schools define "collegiate sports" as football and "momentum" as money. Nothing else really matters.
Quote from: MU Avenue on November 22, 2012, 07:37:50 PM
I think it is well past the time when the NCAA should have stepped in to help decide if certain teams should be allowed to badly diminish or actually destroy conferences.
You do realize that the NCAA is made up of the members that actually are doing the jumping right?
Quote from: MarquetteDano on November 22, 2012, 07:45:37 PM
Your only hope is Congress or a like government agency stepping in.
Eh...please no.
Quote from: MU Avenue on November 22, 2012, 07:37:50 PM
All of the outrageous conference jumping, which is likely to ruin the once-terrific Big East Conference, is making all of collegiate sports seem, well, stupid. It is getting hard to take the whole mess seriously.
Does anyone who is in a position of authority and responsibility at the NCAA have a thought on what is happening with athletic conferences? Is the NCAA really content to allow teams to join any conference and to then let the chips fall wherever they may?
This crazy conference hopping is an extremely serious matter that stands to destroy the growth and the momentum that collegiate sports have been enjoying for years.
I think it is well past the time when the NCAA should have stepped in to help decide if certain teams should be allowed to badly diminish or actually destroy conferences.
It might be the Big East taking a bullet today, but I have no doubt that other conferences, including the ACC, the Big 12 and maybe the Pac-12, will soon see the day when formerly committed and loyal members of their conferences jump ship -- perhaps in the dark of night.
I keep waiting to hear something -- anything! -- from the NCAA. But all I hear is silence.
It's actually very high on the NCAA's agenda. Right after the NCAA solves the problem of how to keep TV networks from offering ever increasing amounts of money for collegiate sports programming, it will be right on this issue.