My 2 Cents

What is the deal with all the conference shuffling? This whole

BCS thing is already confusing enough, now everybody wants to

switch conferences.

It all started when the ACC decided that they wanted to invite

Miami and Virginia Tech to their conference because they wanted to

be able to have an ACC championship game and to do that you need a

certain number of teams.

I guess other conferences felt left out because they started

shuffling around for teams too.

The Mountain West went invite crazy. They invited Rice, Tulsa,

SMU, Marshall and BSU is actively lobbying for an invite as

well.

Rice, Tulsa and SMU have all accepted and will be leaving the

WAC next year headed for the Mountain West. With three teams

leaving, the WAC was one team short so they added Utah State and

New Mexico State.

Marshall is still hanging around in limbo and as for us, I have

no idea what is going to happen. I guess a change could be good

considering that we dominate everybody in our conference already,

and we just got there three years ago.

The poor Sunbelt is loosing two schools to the WAC and

doesn’t know what it’s going do either.

The result of all these changes will be the most noticeable next

year during bowl season. The ACC will have two more bowl eligible

teams meaning they will either have to leave someone out of a bowl

game or take another conference’s bowl.

The Big East will have lost its two best teams and will probably

only get one bid now instead of three and that one will probably go

to Boston College.

If Marshall leaves the MAC, Toledo or Bowling Green will be the

only bowl-eligible team there. The Mountain West will need more

bowl bids if BSU and Marshall were to both join.

All of this is becoming a big cluster and seems pointless. The

conferences were fine as is. The big schools were doing well as

always and the schools from smaller conferences were beginning to

compete with those big schools.

It is beginning to even out around the nation and now everybody

wants to start moving around. I say “find a home and stay

there.”

But that’s just my two cents.

Maurice Sapp
Sports Commentary
The Arbiter

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