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Purdue AD talks The Alliance: ‘It made a lot of sense’
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College football got hit with some more massive news on Tuesday as the ACC, B1G, and Pac-12 formed an alliance with each other.
The alliance formed due to the SEC scooping up both Texas & Oklahoma a few weeks prior, so the 3 conferences decided that they should all work together moving forward.
Purdue Athletic Director Mike Bobinski spoke about the alliance to Brian Neubert from GoldandBlack.com and he’s in favor of it.
“There was a coming together of the commissioners of our three leagues to discuss how we might have some way to better shape our destiny from an NCAA governance perspective, (College Football Playoff) expansion, what college athletics comes to look like, and there was an agreement between our three leagues that we have more commonalities than differences,” Bobinski said.
He then continued with, “I think we all recognize we’re in a time of upheaval — that’s probably not too strong a word — in terms of the fabric and nature of college athletics. Its time has come.”
There’s still a lot of details that haven’t been come out about the alliance yet, but Bobinski isn’t the first AD from the B1G to support it. On Tuesday, Nebraska AD Trev Alberts also vouched for the move in a statement released by the university.