(07-22-2023 08:25 AM)PicksUp Wrote:  In the southern US, football is a

passion.

What's the dominant passion(s) now on the West Coast?

(07-22-2023 08:51 AM)PlayBall! Wrote:  

(07-22-2023 08:25 AM)PicksUp Wrote:  In the southern US, football is a

passion.

What's the dominant passion(s) now on the West Coast?

Call it what you want to call it.

Calling it their religion, in the Bible Belt, will not win you friends or allies.

(07-22-2023 11:30 AM)PlayBall! Wrote:  Calling it their religion, in the Bible Belt, will not win you friends or allies.

Well, depends on who you talk to. Some use "football is a religion" as a euphemism and don't take it too seriously. There are others who don't take actual religion very seriously even if they espouse it.

(07-20-2023 09:52 PM)Michael in Raleigh Wrote:  I've said it before, but it still blows my mind how massive the outsized value USC/UCLA had on the Pac-12 vs. anyone in the Big 12.

Consider: Colorado left the Big 12 first of all schools. Five more will have left by July 2024. Put more bluntly, every school that has any shot at going to the Big Two (i.e., SEC or B1G), has left.

Then USC/UCLA leave the Pac-12. All of a sudden despite losing just two schools in the Pac-12 compared to the five others in the Big 12, despite the fact that the roster will be 50% backfill compared to the lineup it had when CU was there, AND despite the fact the Pac-12 has 8 of its 10 remaining members as AAU members (vs. only Kansas in the Big 12), the Big 12 is now possibly the more desirable league. Remarkable.

It's not the most desirable league though. If it was the Pac would have folded months ago. It currently has better pr.