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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 19944, member: 628"]
Is it greedy to want your athletics program to be able to compete at the highest levels?  Or is it survival?

Look, I hate the arms race that has become college sports.  Spending millions on weight rooms, player's lounges, flat screen TVs, XBOXs, luxury suites, pro-style practice facilities, and the like is absolutely obscene.  But it is what it is.  We can either play in that world, or downgrade like the Fordham's, Colgate's, Holy Cross's and Ivies of the college sports world did 60 years ago.

Loyalty is such a strange word to use, IMHO.  Look back at the history of college sports, and you see that conference affiliation has forever been in flux.  Outside of a few core teams in the Pac-8, Big Ten and SEC, there has been constant motion for near-on 70 years.  This is nothing new.  The money is a lot more, and thus the stakes are higher, but schools have been looking out for #1 forever.   I mean did anyone mourn for our old ECAC rivals when the BE hoops league was formed?  What's become of those programs?

There could not be a more perfect cliche to use for what's going on than "don't hate the player, hate the game".
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