I shouldn't have invoked the word 'capitalism', I know how that gets some of you guys. And how quaint of you to invoke full-blown totalitarian communism as the obvious, only alternative.
In any case, what's happening to CFB, it is a disgrace, and that's a good word for it. And I have no reason to think, as a layman trying to keep up with various developments and goings-on, that all these moves and reconfigurations and whatnot, totally come down to nothing more than the most banal and short-sighted dollars-and-cents calculations, as the conferences jostle amongst themselves for the best TV deals. And that's it, no greater good than that, and no other objective than that. Instead of, as I said, somehow figuring out some way, without resorting to total authoritarian communism, for the various big programs to get the money they need and can justify demanding, out of the total pot for the whole sport, without just destroying all the various regional conferences the way we have in the last several years.
And I stand by that. And F capitalism if it's unable to accommodate something as obviously desirable and worthy as that.....
EDIT to add that all this storm and strife will suck ND into a conference at some point, so I hope you're okay with that.