Twitter dunks on Utes fan’s Utah to SEC proposal

Radical conference realignment is running rampant across the college sports stratosphere for the second straight year with the recent power moves made by the Big Ten (USC and UCLA) and potentially the Big 12 (Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, Washington) just a year after the SEC fired the opening salvo of the Power Five’s musical chairs with the additions of Texas and Oklahoma. 

It’s arguably already lost its rhyme and reason, with Los Angeles’ top schools joining a conference primarily based in the Midwest. Then again, West Virginia has long been sharing a conference with teams in Texas in the Big 12, and teams in the ACC travel as far north as central New York to as far south as Miami, Florida for road games. Perhaps that has long been past us.

Still, many college sports fans are resistant to the idea of a Pac-12 team defecting to the SEC — as evidenced by a firestorm of tweets aimed at a Utes fan that proposed joining what he referred to as ‘the club’.

Here were the putdowns to that thought:

Utah would be quite the addition to the SEC. It’d certainly revolutionize what the word ‘southeastern’ means in a way that’d make Texas A&M’s admission to the conference a decade ago blush.