re: Article saying Kansas Athletic Dept. mulling over leaving the Big 12 for the Big 10

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Sadly, conferences aren't regional anymore. The SEC would take Notre Dame or OSU in a heartbeat.

That said, realignment is going to damage smaller sports. Auburn is in the market for a softball coach and might get a very good one because softball players don't want to travel across the country for a weekend series. The SEC is very attractive to smaller sport coaches because of this.

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All this conference realignment and combination nil money and athletes wanting to be paid will cause a lot of these schools to shut down their non revenue sports programs and lot of the smaller schools that don't have much to pay for nil money and travel costs will have to scrap their athletics departments.