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.