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Message: [QUOTE="Stern, post: 5085942, member: 527"] The issue is once you have (For example) USC/UCLA in one conference for football/basketball, and they screwed over past conference mates altogether, those schools left behind do not want to bail out USC/UCLA softball, tennis, golf...etc just because they are "regionally close" to one another. Does it make sense, what you propose, yes. Will it happen, no. The Big 10 and SEC need to be looked at like the AFC and NFC in the NFL. That is where this is going. They are going to break away, cut major TV deals, and all sports (well if your in one of those two conferences) will be fine once that happens and yeah its dumb for the USC field hockey team to travel to Rutgers to play, but the money will be so great, and the athletes (now paid employees) will just be doing their job that nobody will bat an eye at it and it will be the new normal. The world has changed [/QUOTE]