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I think Oregon/Washington/Stanford would be their target. Maybe Cal as a fallback. Don't see Oregon State/Washington State in the Big Ten. In fact, them getting into the Big XII would probably be the only way those 2 schools stay in a Power 5 conference, assuming the PAC is picked apart. Not sure if that happens if Oregon/UW end up there instead of the Big Ten.

When did they use "salmon"?

It's just the summer league uniform. All teams use the same template with their wordmark and number fonts. I don't think anybody uses logos on the front, just the name in the font.

Actually, if their goal would be 20 (with 4 divisions of 5 teams), their top choices could be Stanford, Oregon & Washington (to join UCLA, USC in the west) and Notre Dame (or at least a midwest/eastern school). If Oregon and UW end up in the Big XII, then that leaves the Big Ten with 2 of Oregon State, Washington State and Cal to join Stanford (and the LA schools) in this theoretical scenario. I think they'd prefer Oregon/UW.

If those schools end up in the Big XII, I wouldn't be surprised to see Stanford and Cal eventually wind up in the Big Ten. Stanford is one of the top academic institutions in the country and has a decent sports program. Pair that with bringing in the Bay Area market, and it makes for a pretty appealing addition to now having the LA market. Cal would work as a "travel partner" school for Stanford and the LA schools.

For a 64-team division, some schools are gonna have to move down in conferences. The Power 5 currently stands at 64, not counting the 4 incoming schools to the Big XII (BYU, Houston, Cincinnati, UCF). Factor in Notre Dame, that means there will be 69 schools.

I want this to happen. Joe Goodman @the_joe_goodman Might I recommend this as a possible future Big 12 pod?

MLB has to have an even number of teams. Merging 2 wouldn't work without expanding by 1 and that wouldn't make much sense.

The montages of them playing well was really just game footage with his missed calls cut out.

Here's my plan for a "Power Division" of the NCAA or separate association, however you want to look at it. There are currently 64 power 5 conference schools. Add in the 4 incoming to the B XII (BYU, Cincinnati, Houston & UCF) and you get 68. Notre Dame, for all intents and purposes, is a power 5 school who's independent, so add them. That brings the total to 69 schools. Well with 72, you can make 6 conferences of 12, so I added Boise State, Memphis (who I think should've been in the Big XII additions), & San Diego State. They seem to be the next group of Group of 5 schools who are either legit contenders each year or get mentioned in expansion talks. So next, I decided to split them regionally like many suggest. I then just re-used current conference names (and rehashed the old Southwest Conference name) for the hell of it. This is what I came up with. A few notes: the Utah schools seem to fit better with the Pacific Northwest schools, so they went out west and the Arizona schools, the southwest. Colorado seemed to fit better there as well. The southeast/atlantic region had multiple avenues of alignment. In the end, a rather simple SEC-ACC split worked out pretty well. Even though I was trying to keep same-state-schools together as much as possible, Florida and Georgia Tech were swapped because it bridged the gap, so to speak, between Florida and the other ACC schools, and was just too easy to keep those traditional alignments in place. REGION WEST SOUTHWEST MIDWEST EAST SOUTHEAST ATLANTIC CONF. NAME PAC-12 SOUTHWEST BIG 12 BIG TEN SEC ACC Boise State Arizona Illinois Boston College Alabama Clemson BYU Arizona State Indiana Cincinnati Auburn Duke California Arkansas Iowa Maryland Florida Florida State Oregon Baylor Iowa State Michigan Georgia Georgia Tech Oregon State Colorado Kansas Michigan State Kentucky Miami San Diego State Houston Kansas State Nortre Dame Louisville NC State Stanford Oklahoma Minnesota Ohio State LSU North Carolina UCLA Oklahoma State Missouri Penn State Memphis South Carolina USC TCU Nebraska Pittsburgh Mississippi State UCF Utah Texas Northwestern Rutgers Ole Miss Virginia Washington St Texas A&M Purdue Syracuse Tennessee Virginia Tech Washington Texas Tech Wisconsin West Virginia Vanderbilt Wake Forest Here's a color-coded map of the regions. (I simply noted Arkansas with the color where they're located in the state to show their proximity to the rest of the Southwest Conference.)

Oh I know. Nebraska is partially the Kansas City market (lot of Nebraska fans down through western MO actually). But my point was to the fact that they're literally going coast to coast and also picking not-typical Big Ten schools like Rutgers when the SEC stays pretty well in their traditional footprint. Mizzou is a little far north, but the state borders 3 SEC states. Where I live, Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas are all an hour or so away.

Which makes it even more mind boggling when you look at the popularity of the SEC and they're in nowhere near the amount of major markets the Big Ten is.

More available parking on the moon.

I still think the Power 5 conferences need to be in a separate level, whether that's a third NCAA Division I level or a separate association altogether.

Yes. State flags are more common than city flags, save for the occasional well-known instance: Chicago, St. Louis... I'm sure there are others. When people from Salt Lake City says the flag is not well-known enough, they usually know what they're talking about.

I have an appreciation for history and I don't feel either of those.

For the first time in their 5-year history, y'know.

What about the Rams?

Those are alternates. Their primary home and away (sorry, association and icon ) are just black and white.

Sorry, but Salt Lake has no chance. Vegas is 1st, Portland a distant 2nd (in the event they don't remain in Oakland). If there was a chance they moved east (doubtful), Nashville would be priority if the Rays aren't' there first.

Doesn't matter. THAT is a nice looking basketball uniform. What the Jazz look like now, regardless of what they looked like before, is the blandest by far. Brooklyn and Cleveland actually look like professional basketball uniforms, however simple they may be. The Jazz, with the stripped down... everything, yellow as clearly an afterthought choice, and gigantic lettering and numbers, looks completely youth rec league, like Kindergarteners wearing 4th grade jerseys.

Mullets didn't go through the opening. Only women's ponytails.

I think you think people care about this more than they do.

I'd even argue that if (IF. Big IF) they were to alter their identity and change up the colors, the Floridians color scheme would work way better than the Vice colors.

Who hates the Heat's identity? Yeah, it's been around for over 20 years now, but there's nothing inherently wrong with it. Actually a pretty good one that has stood the test of time very well.