With regards to faculty soccer realignment, there are numerous issues that do not make sense.
The breakup of the Pac-12 convention, with Oregon, Washington, UCLA and USC becoming a member of the Massive Ten, precipitated some motion inside faculty soccer conferences that was extra about cash than geography.
SMU, a workforce from Texas, is a part of the ACC. So are two groups from California (Cal, Stanford).
The Massive 12 additionally has groups like UCF, West Virginia and Cincinnati.
The inclusion of these groups within the Massive 12 makes extra sense, however in a question-and-answer session with Stewart Mandel of The Athletic, a fan proposed a commerce between the 2 faculty soccer conferences that could not be extra excellent.
On this purely hypothetical commerce between conferences, the ACC would ship West Virginia, Cincinnati and UCF to the ACC in alternate for Stanford, Cal and SMU becoming a member of the Massive 12.
When you concentrate on it, it makes a lot sense — an excessive amount of sense to truly occur.
For starters, West Virginia has pure rivals within the ACC, beginning with Pittsburgh (Yard Brawl). The Mountaineers even have an extended historical past with Miami, Boston School and Virginia Tech, plus a West Virginia-Virginia rivalry could be enjoyable to domesticate.
UCF makes extra sense within the ACC than the Massive 12, with Miami and Florida State of the ACC already in the identical state. Cincinnati is kind of the outlier, however geographically, it nonetheless matches. The Bearcats really feel like an outsider within the Massive 12.
SMU, nonetheless, would really feel proper at residence. It might reunite the Mustangs with outdated Southwest Convention rivals TCU, Texas Tech, Houston and Baylor.
That’d be a well-liked transfer. Stanford and Cal would additionally be a part of former convention rivals Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado within the Massive 12.
What makes it even higher is that no one must journey from one coast to the opposite for a convention recreation.
School soccer conferences are fully out of whack, but when this commerce have been applied, issues would at the very least make extra sense.
That is how you already know it’s going to by no means occur.
