LMU

Gilbert finally wised up and dropped "Lake Erie" as the Monsters' name. Might be wise for the WhiteBung CapHammers to follow suit.

The cute little minor league trend of ditching their identity to play as food for a game needs to stop. Either fully rebrand or stick to wacky movie-themed alternate jerseys. The Fresno team is the Grizzlies, not the Tacos. Stop kidding yourselves.

We purposely removed the different reactions since we didn’t want to have bruised egos running amok. I’m assuming the most recent board update is still treating likes as one of several reaction options.

The latest board update took care of it.

After reviewing his application, willmorris has been reinstated as a member of the CCSLC effective immediately.

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Google started pulling ads due to sexual content.

FYI - the Wrestling Crush thread was removed. It was heading in the direction of the Babe of the Week thread.

Ouch.

Problem's on your end. I had no problem.

They're following the "bolt the South to resurrect a beloved Canadian franchise" model. Vive les Nordiques!

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As a visual aid, I put together a color coded by conference map of NCAA D-I. LINK It's current for the 2018-19 season but with future D-I UC San Diego already thrown on there. You can see that the WCC is kind of built in clusters. 3 SoCal teams, 4 greater Bay Area teams, 2 northwest teams, and the outlier out in Provo. The Big West has 5 schools in the Greater LA area with two more in Central CA (soon to be 3) and another soon to be in SD. The two real outliers are Davis and Hawaii.

It was last posted to in September 2016. That’s within two years.

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Not a chance. The WCC and Big West are different animals. One has private, predominately Catholic schools while the other is entirely state schools. Plus the Big West is already adding CSU Bakersfield and UC San Diego in the next two to three years.

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Pepperdine is far more evangelical than anyone minus BYU.

So, my WCC might be in for a shakeup. Gonzaga within the next couple weeks may be opting to bolt for the Mountain West. BYU may as well. Link

Well, we were working on that but... the board software decided to job out and lose everything. I sent Chris a list of all the missing links so HOPEFULLY we can recover everything.

Does this mean that Shane McMahon was president of True North?

You know... there is one possibility here that wouldn't infringe on Gary's Sun Belt obsession and Canadian export phobia. Vive les Flammes du Québec!