Conference Realignment

[Carcassdragger]

Arizona should shut down the football program and rejoin the Pac-12 conference, like Gonzaga!!

Do us all a favor!!!

Ha! This would help me significantly by giving too big of a part of my life back!

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[CatsbyAZ]

I know this sounds weird, but I think GCU will quickly become the valley's bigger college basketball brand over ASU.

[Merkin]

[dirtbags]

ngl, i'm kinda digging the way two former pac-12 teams won their respective conferences in their first year after outsiders had labeled the pac-12 as "soft" for so long. if only cal or furd had won the ACC. at the same time, i don't feel bad for sc or ucla, who started this shitshow, for finishing under .500 in the big ten.

[Merkin]

[azcat49]

Good for them. Any idea what we got from our BigXII agreement

[Chicat]

Ah yes, let’s honor that great member of the Big Ten…

[TheCatInTheHat]

I'm all for recognizing Jack Robinson's many contributions to sports and society. But he played in the Pacific Coast Conference in 1939; never in the Big Ten. This seems like a fairly brazen, undeserved, and self-serving theft of reflected glory. It's similar to schools that name colleges after famous and respected people who have no connection, or particular desire for any, with the school. In the shifting sands of realignment, the Big XII could try to claim Arizona's Fred Batiste or Hadie Redd for their own, but it would be transparently false.

[Merkin]

Maybe the ACC will call itself The Conference of Champions since Stanford is now a member.

[AZCatGirl]

Yeah Jackie Robinson should just be a UCLA and MLB thing now. Conferences shouldn't be able to claim anyone like this now that realignment is a constant factor.

[Merkin]