The thing that is driving this mess if of course television rights.

Oklahoma and Texas want to be in the SEC because those southerners really love their football. If they join then the SEC will have 16 teams… which means half the teams won’t play the other half in a given year.

The television money drives the idea that there should be only a few big conferences, with the major sports schools.

It’s a multibillion dollar industry.

But it’s “amateur” sports.