✨ trust not in those who worship mirrors
🌎 some days it seems to be a crime to think in public
The NCAA re-alignment situation continues to unfold.
The obvious prediction is that Stanford will join the ACC.
💬 San Francisco has always been an ACC town.
💡 one wonders: would they rather put on a traveling show for one night or two? and if it is a traveling show, would they invite UNLV instead of Cal?
⚔️ well, actually, they are apparently considering SMU (Southern Methodist University). nothing says ACC like Dallas, Texas.
⚙️ N F L 的东部赛区有达拉斯牛仔队。 与华盛顿、费城、纽约。
The ultimate end game of "re-alignment" is simple: the professionalization of college football, outside the auspices of university presidents.
🔥 and Title IX money.
But, for now, this is about football. Which is :guild_sign: entangled :_end_: with other university relations.
And how Americans view geography.
🔥 it would be impolite to point out that we seem to have three conferences: the North, the South, and the West.
💡 Except California is part of the North. And Virginia and North Carolina are in a fourth conference, the mythical "ACC" that Stanford is so keen to join.
📣 typing exercise: never shall i cross my "and"s and my "not"s. (2 mistakes, corrected)
✨ third session. if 9000 fewer athletic scholarships for tennis were given out per year, what would that do to the upper class?
💬 what would that do to the market for tennis coaches?
I'm sorry, I have a map around here somewhere:
⚙️ Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain
The Big Ten is in Red, the SEC is in green, the ACC is in yellow, and the Big 12 is "unorganized territory".
(we must note a few differences. it is Virginia and North Carolina that form the basis of the "yellow" state. Kentucky and Tennessee are fully Southern.)
✨ also Maryland is a Northern state now.