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Stanfurdstinks's avatar

I vote Big 12. Tired of hearing about cultural differences. They are all good schools...maybe not elite, but, at this point, who gives a crap. Mark Madsen is Mormon; Tom Holmoe is Mormon; Nate Longshore is Mormon. I bet most of the good Poly players we have had are Mormon. Get over yourselves. I would much rather play BYU than most of the teams in the ACC. I have different beliefs than my Mormon friends but they are still my friends and they love college sports...and they are civil too. It would be fun to play schools like Texas Tech and Kansas State. Kansas in basketball? Sign me up for that one. Plus, we get ASU, UofA, Utah, Colorado (and maybe Oregon State and Wazzu) back on the schedule. This is a no brainer and we should have been pushing for this all along rather than farting around with the ACC. Not happy with how the Big XX meddled with the Pac, but it's survival at this point. And for the skeptical Big XX fans, let's engage and let me convince you that adding the four Pac survivors would make for a deep and exciting league.

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"Cal athletics needs every dollar they can get" - this crisis lands squarely at the feet of Mike Williams, Clueless Carol Christ, and Empty Suit Jim Knowlton--- these amateurs ignored / mismanaged Cal athletics and let them deteriorate to the point that Cal has very little currency in the world of intercollegiate athletics - even now, Cal is riding on Stanford's coattails (and better be gripping hard, white knuckled hard) - once Cal does settle into a new conference (unlike Stanford, Cal can't opt to go the independent route), you can bet there will be a clarion call to all alums to ante up - we're going to be dunned to cover for the endless, costly mistakes made by this trio of naif amateurs - for me to commit anything, I want the three dolts to be punished - I realize there are no stocks in any public park in Berkeley, but their "crimes" must be acknowledged in some way - Fire Clueless Carol at once (I don't care if she's got a week left, she needs to know that she screwed up) - Fire Empty Suit Jim immediately with no severance and contest his pension due to the women's swimming fiasco. Make his life miserable. - Williams? Somehow someone needs to rub his nose deep down in the shitpile he helped to create. I guess I'm too Old Testament, but these three dolts shouldn't be allowed to skate off into the sunset and live happily ever after. We're all suffering now and these oblivious perps need to suffer along with the rest of us. - Finally, the regents need to be made aware that their affirmations of the leadership nominees led directly to failures. They need to know that when it comes to leadership of a complicated institution like Cal, merit needs emphasis and prime consideration, not diversity just for diversity's sake.

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