While the NCAA technically has oversight to organize the various tournaments and police individual wrongdoing, better known as cheating, it has no power to prevent schools from leaping from one conference to another for the almighty dollar, which is not in the best interests of the student-athletes they claim they are protecting.

FORBES: NCAA Should Have A Say In Conference Realignment

The interdependencies are many--from the fact that a student can't study one concept in one grade unless he or she mastered another one earlier to the mandates from the district and state that dictate how a teacher must teach.

FORBES: Disruption In The Classroom