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April 16, 2010

If conference expansions come true, college athletics will never be the same

If conference expansions come true, college athletics will never be the same In 1959, Admiral Tom Hamilton, the incoming commissioner of the Pac-8 Conference, began drawing up plans for what he called the “Airplane Conference.” The league of at least 13 schools would have included Notre Dame, the three service academies, the core of what…