Desperate appeals to join the Atlantic Coast Conference are pathetic.
Yes, the collapse of the Pac-12 conference — with eight schools departing for conferences with better TV contracts — leaves you two without a home for your sports teams.
For sports beyond football, the California conference could include more than 20 universities, including seven University of California schools, and 10 Cal State campuses. You’d remain the top dogs, academically and athletically, but by bringing in the California schools, you’d elevate them in a way that might ease resentment of your elite institutions.
Sports media executives may question whether intra-state games will draw audiences, but that’s because they don’t understand California. College football is about rivalries between regions, and California’s regions are as populous as most states. I, for one, can hardly wait to see Cal or Stanford go to Bulldog Stadium on a Saturday night with a conference title at stake.
And with any luck, this new athletic union would forge more academic collaboration between California-based schools, who face the same threat — a United States that is increasingly hostile to higher education, non-partisan teaching, and California’s liberal values.
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