BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

If you get into any UC location you’ve done some serious work in high school and should be proud of your achievement.

 

Which is why I wished I had at least applied at UCLA. Berkeley's lack of a communications department made me look to either San Francisco State or Fresno. I chose the later, but damn, a UCLA degree (and experience in the L.A. market) would have been huge.

I do kick my 17-year-old self for not thinking. And the girls!

 

Stanislaus is a CSU. The UC is in Merced, thankyouverymuch. And if anyone cares, Humboldt got boosted to a Cal Poly a few years back, like San Luis Obispo and Pomona.

 

My younger son got admitted to UC San Diego and the University of Virginia. He choose Charlottesville over the beaches of San Diego, which means he had vastly different priorities in life than his father. He graduated with honors at UVA (I know I am bragging).

 

My friend's son was a scholar student/class president/water polo & swimming star, the real deal. He was accepted to every school he applied for except Stanford (my friend still hates Stanford), including Ivy League. He accepted a swimming scholarship to UCLA only for it to drop swimming. He "settled" for UC San Diego and loved it. He had no issue with UCLA because he felt UCSD might have been a better experience.

 

The assumption is that Notre Dame will see their football rights income from NBC increase to something close enough to the SEC or Big Ten numbers to stay independent. After all, the school just hired the Chairman of NBC Sports to be the new AD.

However, if Notre Dame decides the number is not close enough to what the Power Two schools are making annually and decides to gain admission to either the SEC or the Big 10 I believe that all hell will break loose. If Notre Dame joins the SEC or the Big 10 the gaining conference will likely want to add a second member, probably from the ACC. I think any member of the ACC offered a spot in the Power Two would join immediately and hope their lawyers could get them out of paying the full exit fee.

 

As an aside my son majored in economics. His dream school was Berkley because the economics department is so strong. They have a bunch of Nobel Prize winners on the econ faculty. Both UCLA and UC San Diego had top 15 econ departments and he got in both. UC San Diego was actually recruiting him so he was a little more interested in that school. I asked the Southern Californians I know if there was that much of a reputational difference between UCLA and UCal San Diego and they did not seem to think so at the undergraduate level.

UVA actually had a lower rated econ department than any of the California schools but he went there mostly because his older brother was already there and liked it.

 

I got out of the Navy, walked onto a directional state campus one day, and enrolled.
In journalism.
That's all I got.

Well, I did get my masters from a private university, and life is much better these last 11 years.

 

I'm never going to remember all this California university stuff. It was interesting though, so thanks all.

 

It has gotta suck when you realize you built your football stadium directly over a massive geologic fault line. The perfect metaphor for any economic catastrophe that later comes to light.

 

As I pointed out probably 10 pages or so ago, in the SEC Notre Dame would be facing:

1) Hard-core anti-Catholicism across the league

2) Being monotonously and thunderously ass-whipped by the top third of the league, struggling to go .500 against the middle third.

3) Loss of virtually ALL their traditional rivalries. Whether this would extend to a blanket all-sports boycott who knows, but certainly thr B1G would slam the door on ever playing them again in football.

If Notre Dame is a barely above .500 middle-level team in the SEC with no traditional rivals left, they have nothing. Notre Dame has built its whole football mythology around "tradional rivalries."

I suppose if they joined the SEC they'd be figuring on whipping up big on the service academies, then praying to god to go 5-4 in league play.

 

UCLA doesn't have a swimming program?