Lots of news lately about possible conference realignments in the NCAA. I see the first official move was made today with Colorado agreeing to join the Pac-10. The Pac-10 is also looking at several other Big 12 schools. The Big Ten is looking at adding members with Nebraska and Notre Dame being mentioned.
So how will this affect college swimming? My gut tells me it's neutral or negative. I think football is the driving force in these realignments and it will just marginalize the non-revenue sports even more than they already are.
Any thoughts?
P.S. by the way, the Pac-10's possible realignment to a 16 team conference by adding six Big 12 teams will only increase the number of men's swim teams to seven in the conference (Texas and TAMU being the new ones). So the conference would go from 5/10 teams fielding men's teams to 7/16.
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It pains me to defend UT but this post is misleading. Look at all those sports they support, that is the most impressive thing to me. That is a lot of opportunities for a lot of kids.
Are you kidding? Texas supports comparatively few sports compared to Stanford (for example) - who spends less money. Texas throws a huge amount of money at football, basketball, and baseball. They pay all of their coaches top dollar. They have outstanding facilities for every sport. But the results do not match the spending.
You might find the link below interesting:
www.texastribune.org/.../
The top 20 in salaries is riddled with UT coaches.
It pains me to defend UT but this post is misleading. Look at all those sports they support, that is the most impressive thing to me. That is a lot of opportunities for a lot of kids.
Are you kidding? Texas supports comparatively few sports compared to Stanford (for example) - who spends less money. Texas throws a huge amount of money at football, basketball, and baseball. They pay all of their coaches top dollar. They have outstanding facilities for every sport. But the results do not match the spending.
You might find the link below interesting:
www.texastribune.org/.../
The top 20 in salaries is riddled with UT coaches.
