Conference realignment surfaced as a red-hot topic in intercollegiate athletics since the Big 10 announced over the winter that it would explore adding school pursuant to staging a football championship game. The heat on this topic has risen recently, as other leagues – the Big 12 and Pac 10, specifically – have joined the discussion. Information on realignment at the BCS level emerges almost every day, sometimes by the hour, and it’s easy to find historical information, as well. Dillon Tabish of the Daily Interlake in Kalispell offers a solid, if somewhat griz-centric, local take on the topic.

Bobcat fans rightly wonder what’s cooking with the home team. Find out tomorrow, when MSU Director of Athletics Peter Fields offers his thoughts in this space.

Until then, the important idea to remember is that, outside the Big 10, most of the ongoing communication and negotiation ranges from strictly informal pure speculation. A friend at a school in the West most prominently associated with changing conferences told me recently that his school has not been conversed in any manner at any level about moving, so it seems that the first move is the Big 10’s.

--Bill Lamberty, MSU Sports Information