leave me there before
latest realignment round
it’s just weird – greed wins
Drop me at the beginning of the College Football Playoff era and leave me there. In my mind, college football had reached the best version of itself. The conferences were aligned perfectly. Geography mattered, and regional pride was supreme. There was a functional way to create an intriguing postseason and properly crown a national champion without subjectivity. And upsets, the crown jewel of this sport, still mattered. It was college football nirvana.
We get that for one more glorious year before greed wins.
That’s the hardest part about this latest and irreversible round of realignment. It wasn’t done to improve the product or serve the consumer. It’s just weird. It removes the essence of regionality, and nobody likes it. Really, this whole thing just stinks — even if we can admit that we will see some new and exciting matchups in the near future.
From Savor the 2023 college football season — it’s the last one like it we’ll ever get by By Ari Wasserman in the Athletic.
I am reminded of the movie ‘The Wind and the Lion’ with Brian Keith having a wonderful time as President Theodore Roosevelt and Sean Connery as Desert Sheik with a scots accent.
At one point, the Connery character talks to one of his lieutenants and says:
What has become of honor, respect?
Everything is changing, drifting away on the wind.
It’s been a bad year.
The next one will probably be worse.
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