The Dude of WV on WVU

Expansion never dies – it just sleeps like Cthulhu waiting to rise from the deeps and wreck havoc upon college football.
Last week I had a very lively Twitter discussion with @Expansion_Crush and @NebGradDubDub about the Big 12’s grant of rights, hereafter referred to as GoR, and how secure the GoR actually made the conference....

I’m not happy about writing this particular expansion update. I have great respect and admiration for BYU as an institution and for their football program and it’s because of my esteem for the Cougars that I decided to once again write about what’s not...

Why is it that talk about college football expansion refuses to die? There is far more evidence to support the theory that, at least for the foreseeable future, expansion is dead.
But is it?
Dead? Not exactly but it certainly is in deep hibernation.

Sometime today the NCAA’s Executive Committee will vote to endorse a plan to give the 65 member institutions of the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac 12 and the SEC the autonomy to make their own rules.
In August, at the NCAA convention, the 350 schools that comprise the NCAA’s Division 1 will vote to ratify the changes....