As much as some of you liberals around here are glued to your phones reading about the latest indictment of Trump while masturbating furiously, I have been enthralled by the latest round of college football realignment.

Many have decried it as a sign that greed ruins everything and tradition doesn’t matter anymore and this is not the college football I grew up watching.

Stop clutching your fucking pearls.

This is great and long overdue.

The truth, to anyone that wants to hear it, is that college sports are a business, just like any other. There are good businesses and there are bad businesses. Are you going to shed a tear if the restaurant where you got food poisoning goes out of business?

No fucking way!

The “leadership” of the PAC 8 10 12 4 was arrogant and out of touch. They thought they were better than everyone else and knew better than everyone else. Those types of people usually get their comeuppance.

This all goes back to the reluctance to add Texas and Oklahoma when they were willing to leave the Big 12. The “leadership” thought those two schools were beneath them and didn’t pursue them. Or maybe they just didn’t like the people at those schools. I don’t know. Ultimately, they felt they weren’t good enough for their little club. That has come back to bite them.

Over the course of the whole realignment process, the PAC 12 has been passive and reactive. That has been proven to be an extremely stupid strategy.

I expect Washington State and Oregon State to be invited to the Mountain West Conference. There is talk out there of the PAC 12 merging with the Mountain West but that’s just more PAC 12 arrogance showing. Why the fuck would the Mountain West consider having anything to do with the “leadership” that’s destroyed a century-old institution?

The PAC 4 has nothing of value to offer. The Apple streaming deal is surely off the table so no one can count on that money anymore. The automatic berth into the college football playoff is as good as gone. What is the attraction? The name “Pacific”?

If I’m the Mountain West, I’m laughing at that merger talk and saying, “Maybe if we feel like it, we’ll take all your teams. But only two make sense. You can go fuck yourselves, Stanford and Cal. Unless you beg us. Then MAYBE we’ll think about it.”

I suppose Stanford is arrogant enough to think that they could be used as bait to get Notre Dame into the Big Ten. Not only are they arrogant, they’re delusional. That’s not happening.

The Domers have a nice fat TV contract that isn’t going away any time soon. They don’t need Stanford and they don’t give a shit about Stanford.

I’ve heard rumours of the American Athletic Conference getting interested in the last four teams standing. That conference gets more TV money, so the arrogant and greedy PAC Leftovers might go there even though geographically it doesn’t make sense. Remember, this is about money. It’s a business.

“Oh, but what about the non-revenue sports?”, cry out the naysayers. Those are businesses too. Smaller businesses but businesses nonetheless. The “amateur sports” model has been revealed to be a sham. Colleges are free training for the federations and organizations that run Olympic Sports in this country. That free training has been provided on the back of the revenue-generating sports (football and basketball). It is time those organizations paid for that training. That model was not sustainable and we are at the point where it has stopped being viable.

If anyone in this country gives a shit about Olympic Sports, then pay for it. Title 9 is fine and good but it needs to be funded. Football and Basketball have their own shit to worry about and don’t have to subsidize Title 9 compliance.

If the universities won’t take money out of their endowment funds to pay for those sports and Olympic federations and organizations won’t pony up some money then I guess we won’t win as many medals in the Olympics. Who cares?

I love it when arrogance, passiveness, and incompetence are punished. That’s happening right now. I also love it when people that think they’re in control lose everything.

None of us are in control of anything but our own actions. To think you can control other people is ridiculous and stupid. The way you get things done is to be pro-active and engage with people and always be looking for opportunities. You need to be looking at the future, not living in the past holding on to outdated standards and ideals.

The PAC 12 thought it could control everything and everyone. They said tradition mattered and values mattered. That’s hypocritical. The talk of values and tradition was just a justification for controlling people. It didn’t work and the truth is tradition and values don’t matter. They’re just marketing slogans.

So, all good things come to an end. People leave when they realize the people they are surrounded by are no longer going in the same direction or in the direction they want to go. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I have done that many times and will continue to do that. Life is too short to be surrounded by assholes.

I was thrilled when UCLA announced they were leaving with USC and I’m very happy the schools that left on Friday finally pulled the trigger. Congratulations to Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington. You finally did the right thing.

Enjoy your Saturday night!