The Most Important Theory on College Football Conference Realignment

History is a guide, and “The great man theory" can help us understand the future reasons for realignment decisions
By Kendall Kaut
June 6, 2022
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In David Foster Wallace’s famous graduation speech, “This is Water,” he tells a story about an atheist who explains to a Christian why he can’t believe in God. The atheist is stuck in the wilderness and prays to God to be saved. The Christian is shocked that the atheist is not now a Christian — the man is alive and speaking to him after all — but the atheist believes that’s just two random Eskimos who came by and grabbed him.

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The Most Important Theory on College Football Conference Realignment

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8:59a, 6/23/22
I remember that college graduation speech. As for me, it is a little strange, but this is not surprising, because when you are trusted to write an essay so that it will be voiced at the graduates' evening, this is a big responsibility. When I was picking ideas for my essay I see it hereit was quite an exciting moment. After all, the speech must be impeccable, it attracts the attention of the public, and if you do not have experience in public speaking, this is doubly difficult. So even though I think this graduation speech is weird, I still think he prepared well.
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