USA Today reports on the latest goings on in college football realignment:
The theater of the absurd that is college football expansion got even
more ridiculous Wednesday. After three U.S. senators, nine Big 12 Conference schools and one billionaire booster wrestled with whether West Virginia or Louisville should join the league, the result is expected to remain the same.
Two other people with direct knowledge said that the lobbying of the
Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, had
helped Louisville. His communication with Oklahoma’s president, David
Boren, a former senator, and Texas Tech’s chancellor, Kent Hance, a
former congressman, played a role in raising Louisville’s fortunes.
Hance confirmed that McConnell called him to push Louisville.
Although West Virginia still has a chance to join the Big 12, news of
Louisville’s emergence sent a shock through the state.
“If a United States senator has done anything inappropriate or unethical
to interfere with a decision that the Big 12 had already made, then I
believe that there should be an investigation in the U.S. Senate, and I
will fight to get the truth,” Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West
Virginia, said in a statement. “West Virginians and the American people
deserve to know exactly what is going on and whether politics is
interfering with our college sports.”
Politics interfering with our college sports? Here is one response to that view:
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