You may have noticed that in recent years football has seen fit to reshuffle the major conferences' memberships. Perhaps you've also noted how this flurry of programmatic comings and goings -- never wildly popular conceptually, though usually accepted in due course -- has been resented with a particular aggrieved vehemence by basketball's more thoroughgoing fans. After all, having one's conference rearranged according to the dictates of a different sport entirely is far from ideal.