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Message: [QUOTE="Mister P, post: 4343029, member: 9590"] I had a short conversation with a neighbor of mine this morning about this. He is retired now but he did hold 2 very high positions in college sports. One with the NCAA itself and one with a conference. He agreed that it will be the BIG and SEC as super conferences and then there will be everybody else trying to find a home. There will be a lot of raiding of conferences and a lot of big names will be left out. We will all need to sit back and watch how it plays out. Like many of us, he also thinks it’s bad for college sports but that’s just the way it is now. Football and it’s cable package is obviously driving this and basketball is just luggage under the bus. Anyone with cable TV will be paying for the super conferences and their TV deals. Our rates will go up in hidden fees from 90 cents to $1.10 or whatever the numbers are to make it work and profitable for them. We also talked just briefly about the BE and he said there was a time during the conferences heyday when Penn St. and Joe Paterno approached the conference for admission and they were laughed out the door because they were a football school. Our neighborhood golf cart parade started at that point so I didn’t have a chance to follow up with him more on that. Does anyone remember this scenario ? I don’t. [/QUOTE]