According to Yahoo Sports...yes.
From the link:
State sponsored schools wasting millions of dollars on meaningless games is, of course, a ridiculous waste of taxpayer money. Nothing says this more clearly than the AZ State Sun Devils traveling to Piscataway in January to play Rutgers. On the Football end of it; the deal likely won't matter so much in terms of on-field competition. The PAC 12 is not likely to get a toe-hold in the South with this move in terms of recruiting. Troy Aikman famously said once that the reason UCLA appealed to him was that he had lunch at Gladstones in Malibu while being recruited. That might work with some guys from Oklahoma...not so much with guys from Florida.
What might be interesting is how the remaining schools in the Big 12 react. These once-proud sports teams err universities are seemingly out in the cold with this re-alignment. Really; who wants to go to Morgantown to play a football game if they don't have to.
A question that arises with me is that as the conferences grow...how long will it be until there are more games scheduled to feed the beasts? Are you going to end up with a SEC SW Division so a nod can be made to some sort of regional sectionalism because soon they won't be able to play everyone in their conference if this keeps up. The ACC/PAC12/BIG 10 conference: 38 schools (if the conference is formed)....
Nutty.
Report: Big Ten, ACC, Pac-12 in 'high-level' discussions about forming official alliance
The three leagues reportedly have not "expressed serious interest in raiding what's left" of the Big 12, either.
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From the link:
State sponsored schools wasting millions of dollars on meaningless games is, of course, a ridiculous waste of taxpayer money. Nothing says this more clearly than the AZ State Sun Devils traveling to Piscataway in January to play Rutgers. On the Football end of it; the deal likely won't matter so much in terms of on-field competition. The PAC 12 is not likely to get a toe-hold in the South with this move in terms of recruiting. Troy Aikman famously said once that the reason UCLA appealed to him was that he had lunch at Gladstones in Malibu while being recruited. That might work with some guys from Oklahoma...not so much with guys from Florida.
What might be interesting is how the remaining schools in the Big 12 react. These once-proud sports teams err universities are seemingly out in the cold with this re-alignment. Really; who wants to go to Morgantown to play a football game if they don't have to.
A question that arises with me is that as the conferences grow...how long will it be until there are more games scheduled to feed the beasts? Are you going to end up with a SEC SW Division so a nod can be made to some sort of regional sectionalism because soon they won't be able to play everyone in their conference if this keeps up. The ACC/PAC12/BIG 10 conference: 38 schools (if the conference is formed)....
Nutty.