In dealing with my kids, they always want a treat after supper. Every night. Obviously, 90% of the time the answer is "no". Sometimes we say "yes". They often ask "why not?" So we have to explain that it's not a treat if you get it every day. It's like a kid who loves ice cream. They don't realize it, but they love ice cream BECAUSE it's something you don't get all the time. If you gave then ice cream for breakfast. lunch and supper every single day, it wouldn't be a couple days before it lost its novelty and a few days until they were sick of it.
In all this expansion chaos you hear people glowing about all the wonderful matchups it'll create. Well, many of those matchups that will be created would have been fun pre-expansion for the very reason that they were rare. A SoCal/OSU matchup would have been fun to see for the very reason that it was a novelty. Now when it's happening every couple of years or so, it's just gonna be old hat. Same for Texas/Bama. With the Texas/Bama game last year, you had folks saying "Imagine once Texas is in the SEC!" Well, them joining the SEC takes away the very thing that made the game a fun matchup.
In creating the matchups that people want to see, expansion takes away the thing that made those matchups intriguing.
In all this expansion chaos you hear people glowing about all the wonderful matchups it'll create. Well, many of those matchups that will be created would have been fun pre-expansion for the very reason that they were rare. A SoCal/OSU matchup would have been fun to see for the very reason that it was a novelty. Now when it's happening every couple of years or so, it's just gonna be old hat. Same for Texas/Bama. With the Texas/Bama game last year, you had folks saying "Imagine once Texas is in the SEC!" Well, them joining the SEC takes away the very thing that made the game a fun matchup.
In creating the matchups that people want to see, expansion takes away the thing that made those matchups intriguing.
