Conference Realignment Sucks

Why can't conference realignment make sense? Wouldn't it be rational for the PAC-12 to go after some regional teams? Brigham Young, Boise State, Utah State, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado State, Air Force, Nevada, Univ. of Nevada-Las Vegas, New Mexico, New Mexico State, Hawaii, San Jose State, San Diego State, and Fresno State are all Division I FBS schools within their present geographic footprint. They should go after the four best schools I've just listed and leave any teams located in the Central Time Zone alone.

The way it is looking though is that Texas A&M will join the SEC, then Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State will bounce for the PAC-12 leaving Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, and Missouri as the Forgotten Five once again. What happens then? I guess we wait and see, but it doesn't look promising for my alma mater unless the Big Ten comes calling or the remaining members of the Big XII hold together and can convince other schools to join in to create a new conference.

What seems the media wants to happen is the SEC will go after three ACC teams (Georgia Tech, Florida State, Clemson/Louisville) then the ACC will in return attack the Big East as it is attacked by the Big Ten in an attempt to get Notre Dame. Thus the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, and PAC-16 become the four super-conferences.

The schools/conferences left out will be left scrambling to create some patchwork conference to compete. The Sun Belt, C-USA, WAC, Big XII's Forgotten Five, and Mountain West plus Army and Navy will have to figure something out or attack each other for the best programs to be relative in the college football landscape in the future.

Some of the regional, state, and border rivalries will be things of the past for this expansion, but so long as  collegiate football brings the bacon to the table for universities, they'll sacrifice tradition, respect, and honor for greed, ego, and mercenary-like behavior.