A handful of ramblings compiled since the deal to send the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns to the SEC a year in advance finally came to fruition.
*Sorting through even more discourse on conference realignment in the last week, it seems that we tend to get it backwards when sorting out motivations behind the moves on the chessboard. We should be thinking more in terms of defense than offense.
About 10 years ago, Jason Belzer wrote one of the more interesting articles on the last round of conference wheeling and dealing, Belzer primarily assessed the situation through the eyes of Jim Delany, the Big Ten’s influential former commissioner.