Followers of this website have seen me on occasion stray from stadium visits into the world of college athletics, namely conferences. The original intention of a conference was to organize similar schools in a geographic area. It structurally made sense and was much better for the fans, especially those looking to travel to road games. However, we all know that train went off the tracks decades ago thanks to money and greed. With my favorite time of year coming up, I wanted to debut my kicked around plan how to restructure these conferences.
The focus is on college basketball, but it can apply to other sports too. The vast majority are 10-team conferences, which allow for home-and-home, round-robin play throughout the regular season. Then, your conference tournament is an eight team bracket, with no step-ladders. Below in the video, I breakdown each of the 37 conferences, along with an intro on the season format for both basketball and baseball. Football was done a few years ago.
I’ve also included the maps for each conference below (Google Maps only allows 10 layers at a time, so they are split into four).
Stadium and Arena Visits 