There’s been a lot of smoke about expansion and dis-expansion (retraction doesn’t really work and this is where I’m really wanting that Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus I heard about from my friend Dave) in various leagues around the country, leading to the apparently prevelant belief that by gawd there must be fire. I thought I’d weigh in on the discussion and give you, dear reader, therealnesshurts.com’s official stance on the subject:
I’m not saying nothing’s going to happen: clearly the Big Ten and Pac Ten are more earnest in their desire to add teams and join the legitimate and be-conference-championship-game-ed league’s of the world then ever before. But this is one of those situations where the journalists at papers whose readership is slowly in decline are gunning for some job security and placing their bets on the off chance that, hey, they could get lucky, guess right, and later claim credibility.
Which good for them.
But fuck if I’m buying any of it. I’m sure there will be some movement on the expansion front, probably soonish, certainly within the next decade (when was the last time a decade went by without realignment?), certainly involving some of the teams and leagues that are getting bandied about. But nobody knows anything yet. The two Ten’s (Big and Pac…wait, we’re still talking football, right?) probably have their lists of schools to contact, sure, but can’t we at least wait until there is a list of viable, properly contacted candidates? This goes, in particular, for everyone in Big XII country, a population who seem to have largely accepted the fact of their league’s dissolution in the wake of the Ten’s plucking activities. Let’s wait until they start plucking.
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