Missouri Head Coach, Eli Drinkwitz, Says What Everyone Should Be Thinking; Conferences Are Stupid And Irrelevant

All the Notre Dame haters who can't think are going to DESPISE this quote from Coach Drinkwitz. The College Football realignment was always stupid, but it is ESPECIALLY stupid now with the expanded playoff. Why on God's Green Earth should UCLA be flying across the country to playing a "conference game" against Rutgers. They aren't actually playing for anything. Eli says it's about scheduling affiliation or whatever. It's really just about money. Everyone that moved conferences and shit on 150 years of tradition did it for a few extra TV dollars. 

The only way forward that I can see is to actually go back. Not to what it was, but college football is going to set up a super league of like 80 teams and then just have regional divisions that will play each other and then eventually get into the 24 team playoff. 8 divisions of 10 or something. Win your division and you get an automatic bid. It won't be perfect. The regular season is dead going forward, but at least you'd restore some traditional games and not have insane cross country flights for "conference" games. Split the revenue essentially evenly for the regular season across every program and then teams that make the playoff get a bigger share of "prize money". 

The conferences are so big and nobody plays the same schedule so you can't even tell who is actually good because there aren't enough common opponents. Great year for UCLA, but they haven't really played anyone of note in the BigTen. It's all watered down and devalued. The college football landscape changed too much too soon and the powers behind the changes didn't value regionality or history enough. Notre Dame is the only school that refused to cave. Now it's trending towards being en vogue again if enough people think like Eli Drinkwitz. Make your own schedule. Play who you want in the power 4. Make the playoff. That makes a lot more sense than the current structure.