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[ender839]

Conference realignment is bananas. Yeah, the Big Ten poaching Nebraska certainly didn't help matters, but there is some crazy shit going on.

(NB: It's bullet points, so that should make it easy to read, but it's all about men's sports, which I know none of you really care about, so feel free to skip this. I need to get the insanity out of my system.)

• TCU to the Big East. Alright, fine. TCU was in a horrible baby conference, and needed a way to get into the BCS regularly. Why the Big East, well, they're pansies and TCU can easily dominate. It also drastically expands their recruiting base and provides big-market exposure for a tiny religious school. The lack of attention to geography hurts my brain and heart, but whatever. This makes sense, God help us all.
• Forming the Pac-eleventy billion-and-four-more-someday Whatever. They're all out west, it creates very aesthetically pleasing north-south divisions, and no one really cares about them, except that USC still can't go to a bowl game, which is awesome. Also, this NFL season is tentatively being called "The Race for Andrew Luck" (he's the QB at Stanford, I know you all didn't know that).
• Boise State to some new crap conference Honestly, I don't even remember. I think they were MWC, but are now WAC - I could be wrong. They were trying to get a yearly marquee matchup with TCU, but LOL, TCU (and Utah, I'm pretty sure) jumped ship and BYU went independent, and now Boise is alone in another shitty conference. Suck failure, Boise.
• Texas A&M to the SEC This is where things start to go nuts. The Big 12 was clearly dying, and UT(exas) was not helping matters with their Longhorn Network. Seriously, how much audience do they think there is nationwide for that? No way would I get it. So A&M decided to shop itself around, and rather randomly applied to the SEC, who let them in after saying "Oh, no, we're not expanding." Shenanigans, anyone? Geography aside, the SEC is actually a pretty good fit for A&M, especially academically. Not sure about the competitive balance - the SEC West is going to be lopsided, unless they can pick up any power in the east. It wouldn't surprise me if they try to poach Florida State or Miami from the ACC for the East...
• ...because Syracuse and Pitt have applied to the ACC WHAT THE BALLS IS THIS NONSENSE?! This changes college basketball SO DRAMATICALLY YOU HAVE NO IDEA. Sure, the Big East is a bloated basketball conference (and yeah, ask them how those double byes work in the conference tournament, LOL), but this is making a new superpower basketball conference. I'm ignoring football because, well, 'Cuse and 'Pitt pretty much suck as teams. I don't see them challenging the traditional ACC powers for the BCS spot. But basketball? JUST GOT NUTS.
• But it's okay, because the Big East wants to pick up Big 12 remnants Geography! It hurts! The Big East, seeing what we're all seeing (i.e., bye bye Big 12), wants to grab most of the soon-to-be former Big 12 North schools (that the Big Ten does not want, LOL, Mizzou, you're too dumb for us) and possibly Baylor. So, with TCU, Baylor, Oklahoma, Mizzou, and whatever else they scavenge (Kansas and OKST? I dunno), would that make the Big East West? WTF IS THIS?

tl;dr: I like geography. And sports. And conferences are money-grabbing hoors.

Speaking of hoors, anyone watch "It's Always Sunny" this past week? I then also watched the new episode of "Archer" and was physically attracted to a cartoon for the first time ever. I feel rather pathetic for that (the actual attraction, not popping that cherry, as it were).