Take me home, country roads.
But we’ll need planes, trains and automobiles to get there.
West Virginia’s ugly divorce from the Big East finally became official Tuesday morning, opening the door for the Mountaineers to play in the Big 12 this coming football season. After West Virginia and the Big East settled their dueling lawsuits, the Mountaineers will reportedly pay $10 million and the Big 12 will throw in another $10 million to pay the Big East’s hefty exit fee. But that’s really only chump change for the damage incurred by the suddenly-gutted Big East, which will have only seven football-playing schools in 2012.
Greed and the almighty dollar fueled college football’s latest round of conference realignment — we can only hope it’s over for now — and it’s time for the sport’s power brokers to start assessing the damage. Conference commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick will meet in Dallas next week and in Miami in April to discuss the future of the sport, including the possibility of a playoff system to determine college football’s national champion.
Full Article at: ESPN
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It’s absolutely absurd that Notre Dame still has any power left in the sports world. I think that the conference commissioners should refuse to let Notre Dame’s AD join in on any conversations about shaping the future of college football. This whole conference mess would have been the best time for the Big East to tell them go all in or get out. They would have decided to leave most likely, but that wouldn’t have hurt the Big East in any sport so there’s no reason to keep them around. Someone, somewhere needs to force ND to realize their irrelevance.
An ESPN writer shaking his fist at “all about the dollar greed” is absolutly laughable. When BC’s AD opened his fat trap we got but a glimpse behind the curtain. A mere peek at the power that Disney wields… And while ND is not quite pulling Disney dollars it is one of the richest institutions in America. It’s alumni base donates more per alum and more in total than any other school… It is all about the $$$.