This paper is organized as follows: a review of the existing studies written on conference realignment is presented followed by my perspective on the current issue on conference realignment.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
The conference realignment or conference churning (coined by Fort and Quirk in 1999) was viewed as a simply a natural development in college athletics as schools re-organize according to drawing power. The realignment is viewed as a function of disparities power cross teams in which the team with the larger drawing power (the dominant team) may look to leave the conference and join a conference with teams of similar drawing power (Depken 2). Conferences have ...
