…are not getting a lot of love from the commentariat at Free Republic. The comments at the original Tribune article are pretty cutting, too.
They seem kind of stupid to me. Can’t one be both a “Leader” and a “Legend”? Or, neither, for that matter? Jeez, just go with East and West.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s a suggestion for a new, disambiguated name: “The Big Ten Plus Penn State And Nebraska.” You can call the other one “The Big Twelve Minus Colorado and Nebraska.”
How about “The Big Midwest” and “The Big Central”? We could also rename “The Big Twelve” as “Texas and The Smaller Nine”. I can say that as a KU, K-State and Missouri (in that order) fan.
Yours,
Tom
How about “Banned under the auspices of protecting the poor children from needless and preventable dangers like the SEC.”
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> big™ is “owned” by a. breitbart
That’s why we are required to prepend “The”.
Yours,
Tom
Al,
When was the SEC banned? And why did it take so long to recognize that that SEC presented a needless and preventable danger to poor children?
Yours,
Tom
We already know that something doesn’t need explicit “banning” language for the bureaucrats to decide they have the power.
How about the ‘Show Me The Money!’ conference? Of course, that’d be pretty much all of them, wouldn’t it?
There’s the SEC and everyone else who wishes they were as good as the SEC. Those other conferences could be accurately called names like “The Wannabes”, “Pretenders” and “Second Raters.”
“The Wannabes”, “Pretenders” and “Second Raters.” Sounds like the SEC this year.
Facts are stubborn things. Six of the top 25 schools in the BCS and AP rankings are from the SEC. And of those 6 teams, all of the loses they had except one were to SEC opponents. Making it undefeated through an SEC season is a major accomplishment, as Alabama did last year and Auburn did this year.
Screw the division names, I want to know who let a 9 year-old pick the font and draw the new logo…