Conference Names: The Pac-12 isn't the LEAST Accurate Name...

[Charles Fischer]

I can't copy the whole article, but a writer made me smile...

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The Pac-12 has added Texas State, which is nowhere near the Pacific Coast, unless you zoom out a lot and get in "pale blue dot" mindset. In the grand scheme, we're all near the Pacific Coast. 

 

Southeastern: No two people will ever agree on what we mean when we say "the Midwest" or "the South" or whatever, but most agree Oklahoma and Texas aren't in the

Southeast. Still, they're not exactly faraway states. (Missouri does not belong to any region. It is a liminal space.)

 

Big 12: Lying about math is much worse than lying about geography, because geography changes over time. A few billion years from now, tectonics might make the ACC's name accurate again. But, a few billion years from now, 12 will still not equal 16.

Pac-12: Lying about math and geography. Colorado State and Texas State are 1,000-mile drives away from the ocean. Just as concerning: the number "12" being applied to a conference that has recently had 10, two, seven and now eight members? (We do not care that some of that wasn't the Pac-12's fault)

Big Ten: Ten? You have almost twice that many members. Yet you call yourself the smart conference. (Am I additionally punishing the Big Ten for also being the most geographically egregious conference, even though geography isn't in its name? Of course I'm not doing that!)

 

 

[30Duck]

The B1G should just drop the 10 part. Cal and Stanford in the ACC? Isn't that like Homer & Jethro

 

 

 

joining the Four Tops?

 

 

[woundedknees]

That might qualify as Fusion music!

[HDuck]

With Gonzaga, is it now the asiNINE.

 

or the PacSt8 and bulldog tail