I just ran across a story that said the Big East Conference is considering adding Boise State to the league. A point of emphasis here is that’s Boise State as in Idaho.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for the rights of a conference to invite any school it wants and for any school to accept the invitation, but enough is enough.

The leaders of the Big East have seemingly been operating in panic mode since Pittsburgh and Syracuse accepted invitations to join the Atlantic Coast Conference a few weeks ago. That panic was elevated when Texas Christian, which had agreed to join the conference, decided to accept an invitation this week to join the Big 12.

I know it gets confusing and it reminds me of the high school district realignments that take place in Florida every two years. As confusing as it can be having to learn new districts every other year at least the Florida High School Association keeps teams as closely aligned as possible based on student population and geography.

Boise State in the Big East is about like moving Crestview to a district in Miami.

Sadly, I don’t think the expansion of college conferences will stop any time soon. I believe within the next year the Southeastern Conference will add a 14th team to bring the conference back to an even number of teams following the recent addition of Texas A&M. I have no way of knowing this, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if the SEC expanded to 16 teams.

With the cries for a DI college football playoff system, like it or not, it makes sense to eventually expand to four or five super conferences. Each conference would have 16 teams divided into four divisions. There could be semifinal and championship games in each conference.

Depending on the final model anywhere from four to eight teams could be invited to the DI playoffs that would have either two or three rounds. I might not like it, but it seems to be what is coming in the next five or 10 years.

In the mean time I hope conference leaders will have enough sense to check their geography books before offering Boise State membership in any conference east of the Rocky Mountains.

Now is the time to stop the madness.

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