ESPN.com is now openly discussing peeling off the richest/most prestigious/most-ratings-bringing-in college football programs into their own league. Here‘s the intro. A later column describes it as “a great idea that will be a major story focus for us over the next several days.”

Granted, I really do believe something similar to this will happen eventually, but to see the World Wide Leader hawking it so unabashedly is tacky even by their standards.

Oh, yeah.  Keep in mind Pat Forde is the “other” smart aleck over at ESPN who once asked, “Who, precisely, does Southern Miss think it is?”