Realignment

Realignment in the past few years...

• Big Ten (now 12 teams) - got Nebraska...rumored to get (but probably not gonna get) Notre Dame, Texas, Missouri, Iowa State, Rutgers
• SEC - got Texas A&M...rumored to be getting Missouri and dozens of other teams
• Big Twelve (now 10 teams) - lost Nebraska, Colorado, Texas A&M...rumored to be losing Missouri...getting West Virginia, TCU...rumored to be losing pretty much everybody at one time or another
• Pac-12 (formerly -10) - got Colorado and Utah
• Big East - lost West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Syracuse - rumored to be getting Central Florida, Houston, SMU...rumored to be losing Connecticut, Notre Dame, Rutgers, Cincinnati, Louisville - rumored to be falling apart entirely
• ACC - got Pittsburgh, Syracuse
• Mountain West - lost BYU, Utah, TCU - got Boise St, Fresno St, Nevada, Hawaii
• WAC - lost Nevada, Boise St - got Denver, Seattle, UTArlington, UTSan Antonio, Texas St - San Marcos
• Big Sky, MVC, OVC, all the other conferences - lost relevance - got screwed in the deal

Clear advantages here...

• Chaos makes for thoroughly entertaining chatter for a very short while.
• Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money (for the already wealthiest college athletic programs)

Clear disadvantages here...

• Incessant chatter from sports talk radio/television about rumors and half truths and things that they generally have no idea about at all
• Inability of most any sports fan to name the full roster of teams in his/her favorite conference
• Lack of stability of conference rules
• More conference championship games (in football and basketball, further cheapening the regular seasons)
• Continuing lack of football playoff system
• Continuing hypocrisy of college sports 'student-athletes' (The link is to a long article; I warn you. It is, however, an excellent article.)
• Ever increasing lack of me giving a crap about any conference
• Ever diminishing profile of college basketball relative to college football
• Big 10's new logo and Legends and Leaders divisions