For once Ted Hutton actually has some info in his blog instead of an article.
http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports/c...nt_as.html
I am a big World Cup fan, so there will be a lot of tube time today and tomorrow.
But in the background will be the continuing buzz over what may happen to the college conferences.
So far just three teams have moved: Colorado, Nebraska and Boise State, but those have sent tremors through all the conferences.
Had a chance to talk with Sun Belt Commish Wright Waters Friday, and he kind of talked me off the ledge.
Waters is playing offense right now, which is pretty interesting, given how the ground is shifting under everyone.
“Today we are very much in enhancement mode in our league,” Waters said. “What can we do to improve the quality of our league?”
Yep, Waters, who said their are two reasons to change conferences -- survival or enhancement -- is talking about adding members, and not just grabbing them because they are available, but picking and choosing ones that will help build the Belt brand.
How is this possible? While, as Waters pointed out, in some scenarios, Kansas will be left out in the cold.
“It if can happen to Kansas, it can happen to anyone,” Waters said. And he has a point.
Until the fiasco this year with that large coach of theirs, the Jayhawks football team had been making some noise in recent years, and all the basketball team does is keeping contending for a national title year after year.
But that may not be enough.
Waters is also talking about the NCAA maybe stepping in, rather than stand on the sidelines and watch members bolt from conference A to conference B. But the NCAA has been reluctant to interfere in such areas, preferring to let the college presidents decide who their schools will play with.
FAU AD Craig Angelos said he feels the coming shakeup is not going to be nearly as big as some predict, and that the Belt and most of the other non-BCS conferences will not be affected.
“At the end of the day, all politics are local. We will see,” Angelos said.
So, do I feel better now? Not really. But I do like the public approach Waters is taking. The Belt is not quivering in fear waiting to see what the big boys will do. They are ready to grab up former big boys who may be floating by and in need of a lifeboat.