Conference realignment’s been back in the news lately following UConn’s decision to head back to the Big East and basically provide a death sentence for their struggling football program. It wasn’t too long ago that new rumors were popping up every single day, and Syracuse Orange fans are probably happy to put that era behind them.
Importantly, SU wound up coming out of the realignment era (2010-19) as one of the bigger “winners,” something Pat Forde called out in his Wednesday piece assessing the best and worst outcomes of the shuffle over the last decade.