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Latest Big Ten Expansion Likely Means The End Of The NCAA

Things don’t always work out the way you expect, but with the move of UCLA and USC to the Big Ten, it looks like the end of the NCAA.

What do you call a college athletic conference that has both UCLA and Maryland?

It’s not really a conference anymore, at least not in the sense that we always thought of one. It’s really more of a professional league. Toss in NIL and whatever reforms come in compensation and, really, what else can you call it?

We’re surprised that the PAC-12 10 lost its best assets so quickly.