Ah, the Chipster.  One 'em or hate 'em he usually has some pretty good opinions on things.  With all the non-geographical, rivalry lost conference realignment going on, moving to a single national league broken down by area makes some sense.

And Lincoln Riley, he's a perfect arrogant match for U$C.  He can't say anything that will make me like him or his team any less than I do. 

Duckball wrote:

Good articles. I thought about posting the Orem one yesterday.

I'm prone to getting way too emotional about Oregon, College sports and just sports in general. I get invested way more than what is probably healthy. But I'm not unique in this. I know I'm not alone.

I can't escape the feeling this season will have a dark cloud over it. The conference demise will be co-equal stories to the actual games. Teams will be distracted. There will be loss of focus. Things will be uncomfortable. There will be bad blood. 

Hope I'm wrong, and just being a drama queen.

I truly don't know what to expect. There will be bad blood, I'm sure. I don't think this affects the kids that much, but you can bet fans will be engaged; sad year for sure, all for fucking greed!!!