Ah, the innocence. Greed, gluttony and mismanagement ruined it. That’s the storyline of the moment with news of the Pac-12's demise.
College football ain’t what it used to be and all that. Thanks for nothing, NCAA. Did you really need to get bigger, Big Ten?
What about the poor gymnasts and swimmers who’ll have to travel from Piscataway, New Jersey, to Eugene, Oregon, and Seattle and study in their hotel rooms now that the conference is home to Washington and Oregon on the left coast and Rutgers on the right?
Listen to the droning long enough and you’ll hear that the Midwest suddenly got wide, and in its stretching lost its face, its soul, its spine.