When it looked certain that A&M was going to the SEC, people were losing their mind over at the Georgetown SBNation blog because of the knowledge that this would probably mean that Georgetown would be out of the Big East once all the dominoes fell. That isn't the case now with the recent news, or at least isn't the case until next the realignment wheel gets going. But I spent far too long typing this out to just let it go to waste. It is also, I believe, a useful primer on the differing motivations/targets of the respective conferences.