Sure. And if I'm thinking footprint for television sets I'm looking B1G. B1G has something like 7 of the top 10 television markets. If that's the sec's play... [Morgan Freeman Gif]
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Yes, the B1G has the top 7 of 10 television markets, but I'm sure the SEC is looking at NASCAR and thinking of their business model of ruling the southern markets. Just my $.02, not saying it makes sense, but neither does cheering for the conference your team is in, even when your team is winning only 5 or 6games and have no realistic opportunity at a conference championship
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Plus, every B1G school has large alumni bases in metro areas like Seattle, LA, NYC, Boston, DC, Dallas, Atlanta etc. SEC schools do not have that. Tejas does, but that's one school. Vandy does have a national footprint, but it's not large and doesn't care about football. When I was a kid, the SF paper would have full breakdowns for two college conference games on Sunday morning: the PAC and the Big Ten.
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5 STAR U-G-A
Legend
And then we'll be back to a BCS champion bowl game
Fuck it, let's take it back to pre-BCS days and have the winners of each tournament claim the natty, so we'll have shared/disputed national champions each year!
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cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
You were probably a kid when I was working on the West Coast - mostly in SF and Ft. Lewis, WA 67 - 77 off and on. The Rose Bowl and alum connections did keep their media (Seattle and SF, but more SF) focused on the Big Ten. I understand the same was true for LA.
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In the 60s and 70s, Jim Murray, who wrote for the LA Times, hated Woody and Ohio State so much that he would write derogatory columns about tOSU all year long.
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cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
Murray was a gifted writer, but a complete asshole in his attitude about anything east of San Bernadino. In 61, the year the miracle Reds stole a pennate from his beloved Dodgers, he deigned to travel to Cincinnati for a crucial series - some of his remarks: 60% of Reds fans come from Dayton, in the summer the locals sit on their porches and watch the tar bubble-up in the streets.
Glenn Dickey, the SF Chron sports writer was a Midwest, Ohio State, and Woody hater too.
So, what was with all the hate? A lot of it had to do with the fact that by the 70s much of the population of LA and SF were midwesterners who had moved west and were suddenly superior. This would be followed by academic smack about Stanford, Berkeley, and UCLA. Stanford was the worst. Michigan arrogance on steroids. Berkeley was content with being Bezerkley.
Glenn Dickey, the SF Chron sports writer was a Midwest, Ohio State, and Woody hater too.
So, what was with all the hate? A lot of it had to do with the fact that by the 70s much of the population of LA and SF were midwesterners who had moved west and were suddenly superior. This would be followed by academic smack about Stanford, Berkeley, and UCLA. Stanford was the worst. Michigan arrogance on steroids. Berkeley was content with being Bezerkley.
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Zurp
I have misplaced my pants.
I don't know if you're joking. Maybe you are. But "Cardinals" would mean that they're the birds, like the old St. Louis Cardinals, who later became the Phoenix Cardinals, and then later the Arizona Cardinals, or like the St. Louis Cardinals.
Stanford is a color. But not like the Cincinnati Reds or the St. Louis Blues, or Chicago Maroons. I'm not crazy about it, either, but it's just one color, I guess.
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