That would be awful for fans. The ACC expanded a few years ago and we no longer play UNC twice in basketball and instead get to play Boston College. They are not a natural rival and i’ve never actually met a Boston College fan. One of the great things about school is the banter between people at work and the ability to make people at church squirm after your team wins. Play against a team with no overlapping fan base and wins aren’t as great and losses as bad. Bragging rights aren’t worth much if you don’t have anyone to brag to and I can’t imagine that fans in Syracuse, New York will have much of a real rivalry with fans from Texas. Certainly they won’t travel in the numbers they would against a regional rival.
It isn’t good for the “student” athletes either to have to travel so much and miss even more class than they already do. Then again everyone knows that college sports haven’t been about education and the student in student athlete for a long time.
Has any of this been approved by Obama? Don’t print this stuff unless it’s been approved by Obama!/sarc
I like your creative thinking but I have two comments:
Football conferences don’t have “tournaments”. They have conference championship games if/when they get to 12 schools.
As weird as it sounds to have TCU in the Big East, it will sound even worse to say that they are in the West Division of the Big East. Kinda of like when the Atlanta Braves were in the West Division of the NFL and National League, respectively.
I’m also not sure how Syracuse will feel being left out of the “old school” East Division of your realignment but almost every time they split up a league, somebody is unhappy with it.