Maybe it’s a ridiculous question, but could a school be Big Ten for football and Pac 12 for everything else?
There are a number of schools that already do this in Division I hockey. Boston College, for example, competes in the ACC for most sports but competes in Hockey East for hockey. There are some weird schools that play Division I hockey.
There are colleges who have the odd sport in a different league where they excel in that particular sport so play in a better league. I don’t think there are cases where they play different sports in two different top leagues.
Not a ridiculous question at all. Dunno about separate conferences, but Notre Dame is in the ACC for every sport except for football, where they retain their independence.
And as a matter of fact, Notre Dame competes in the Big Ten for hockey.
It’s a pain in the ass to fly from Champaign to State College. It’s not like this is a unique situation. Most of the schools more than a couple hours from the nearest large metro will suffer from this in every conference.
I realize this thread is primarily about football, but, as has been recently noted, all other college sports will certainly feel the effects of realignment.
College basketball is one of my favorite sports. A huge plus to the implosion of the Pac-12 is that we will no longer have to listen to Bill Walton pontificate about the ‘Conference of Champions’.
Amen brother!
The Pac-12 has some incentive to stay together; if I am reading the NCAA bylaws right, it has two years to get back to 7 schools, and until then, it still keeps any shares of the men’s basketball TV money that the conference earned. If the conference “officially” disbands, or goes two years without the 7-school minimum, then the remaining shares earned by the schools that left go to their new conferences.