Talk:2021–2026 NCAA conference realignment

Copying within Wikipedia to this article

I can't be bothered right now to do anything more than leave a talk page message after cleaning up some of this mess of an unsourced article, but I'll leave this below.

• "On July 21, 2021, the Houston Chronicle reported that Oklahoma and Texas had approached the Southeastern Conference" is copied from 2021 NCAA Division I FBS football season Skarmory (talk • contribs) 21:47, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

Kennesaw state

There a report right now that it looks like C-USA is going to grab another ASUN FCS team that being Kennesaw State.

https://www.deseret.com/2022/10/7/23393486/conference-realignment-kennesaw-state-reportedly-joining-conference-usa 158.135.163.11 (talk) 19:22, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Adding Big Ten Section

Because UCLA and USC joined the Big Ten and there was significant controversy, especially in California's government, is a Big 10 section appropriate here? Belichickoverbrady (talk) 02:53, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Overall quality

I'm not trying to provide bad faith criticism here, but this article is denser than a brick and dry as the Sahara. Surely something could be done to address this enormous mountain of text? I would consider numerous sections (e.g. FBS/FCS/Non Division-I conferences effected) to be extensive enough to warrant having their own articles. This topic is way to complex to try to fit into one article, but that's just my two cents. Symetrical (talk) 13:13, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

There are similar articles for previous phases of NCAA realignment that are equally comprehensive and dense. This does have 200+ footnotes after all. It is still active event (This Pac-12 turned "Pac-2" has added four and needs to add at least two), it's hard to edit down too quickly, too soon.

Nonetheless, I think the criticism about readability is reasonable to consider.

One thing that can be considered now is to re-examine each paragraph and move toward identifying net and cumulative results. For example merge "thinking about it" and "voted to do it" sentences while retaining all footnotes.

Another is to better use tables to reduce wide arid playas of text.

A third is to further delineate between all-sport moves (which are both notable and impactful) and single-sport conferences (which may be notable, but less broadly impactful) as a previous editor did in the intro.

If we vote to spinoff articles, Hockey is the prime candidate as their conference structures have historically been independent of all-sport conferences and the only all-sport (Big Ten) has not yet had any impact this cycle.

JKPrivett (talk) 20:26, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Proposal to spinoff articles

Due to ever growing breadth and length of this entry, I proposed we follow the precedent from the 2011-2014 cycle is to give conferences that have the most major changes in realignment their own spinoff Wikipedia entries akin to this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932014_Big_Ten_Conference_realignment

As of this date, I feel the following conferences are the highest priority:

• Pac-12
• Big-12

The following also probably qualify

• Atlantic Coast Conference
• Conference USA
• Sun Belt Conference

The following may conditionally qualify

• Mountain West (after it begins adding teams to replace departures to the Pac-12.)
• ASU and WAC (if using the United Athletic Conference article is not sufficient)

In each case, the new entry would transfer the extensive history from the current version.

Then this article will provide a link to the new entry while continuing to provide a 1-2 paragraphy summary of net results. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JKPrivett (talk • contribs) 20:44, 28 September 2024 (UTC)