With ACC expansion to the west coast, which conference now has the most inappropriate name? Those bad at math (Big XII, Big 10) or those bad at geography (ACC)?
Worst conference name?
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I think we will probably continue to stay 'bad at math', and maintain the Big 12 name (+ something.....a different font, a background change, maybe the number of current teams in the conference in the background?, etc.).
This is the best move, IMO, to maintain the Big 12 name. It is the most recognizable, and has strong momentum on its side, finally. Also, the B1G and SEC are not changing their names, why should we? At least not right now.
Amusing how Conference USA, a league with an uncreative, catch-all name, now is more "geographically compact" than three of the P5/soon-to-be-P4.
At the time they were trying to solve that branding problem about a HUGE conference with teams far flung. It is very ironic they're smaller and more geographically compact than most now.
It would have to have two really, REALLY big pods for that to work.
At the time Conference USA and the American were "poor" on geographic compactness. They were generic names for "junk draw" conferences that were doing their best as a G5 set of leagues.
Now we all know what the P4 is going to look like... a total mess.
Who do we blame for this?
The Pac-12 for trying to expand into Texas and Oklahoma?
The Big 12 for adding the best member that it could in WVU?
The Big Ten reaching out from its Midwest footprint to the East Coast?
The SEC expanding out of its southeastern footprint to Texas and Oklahoma?
The ACC for grabbing northeastern Big East teams and Miami out of its footprint?
The Big Ten raiding the West Coast?
The Big 12 going with the Four Corners?
The Big Ten raiding the Coast... again?
The ACC grabbing schools from California and Texas?
It is hard to pinpoint one moment, but the Big Ten adding California schools was the really egregious one. College Park, Maryland to Lincoln, Nebraska is a long flight, but they are only one time zone away. Making Rutgers' volleyball team fly from Newark-Liberty all the way to LAX on a school night is cruel.
Sun Beast Conference ("SBC")
Promoting a UCF or saving WVU from relegation as geogrphic outliers is very different than breaking up the Pac to take 4 schools on the opposite coast.
UCF/WVU didn't disrupt anything, in WVU's case it was a life raft for them.
The SEC's adds are at least geographically logical with slow outward regional connected growth. As the Big 12 fills in it could end up more connected like SEC. The Big Ten is never going to be geographically cohesive, I guess by intentional design.
ACC's desperation move is just as crazy as Big Ten adding west coast but they are in desperation mode and didn't cause this.
The Big Ten didn't knock over dominoes with the great Penn State add. And you could argue Big 12 and SEC did when they added Ark, Texas, A&M, Baylor and Tech...but USC/UCLA really was the "let's throw it all away" moment.
To make things interesting, you could have one pod be the Defender Division (DD) which are the schools that had winning records the year before.
If a team in DD doesn’t have a winning record the next year, they get relegated to the Contender Conference (CC).
But not to say there wouldn’t be some decent CC teams as well.
The Big 10 West division, just has never won a conference championship since it was formed. Most have been blow outs in the favor the East Division champion.
I follow the Sagarin conference rankings that go by division often.
The ten team Big 12, both SEC divisions and Big Ten East have been head and shoulders above the other divisions for years. I know realignment isn't about success, but if you drew a line of where the tough football is being played, it's those four divisions then a drop off.
Last year the American top to bottom including it's worst teams was tougher than the ACC Coastal division. ACC has been garbage football compared to Big 12. Back in the BCS era they had years ranked similar or below Mountain West.
