Totally pointless fluff poll: Which athletic conference does your alma mater belong to?

[marmar]

I went to a football game at my alma mater Saturday, and realized how much I really miss college. Since I'm feeling all collegiate today, I'm posting this completely pointless poll.


My alma mater is a member of the:




..... and my alma mater rules the world:




HAIL!

[liberal N proud]

1. MIAA

[Richardo]

2. Why does the logo for the Big Ten have an '11' in it?

My school was in the Pac-8 when I started and the Pac-10 when I graduated.

[Brickbat]

3. Because there are 11 teams in the Big 10.

They didn't want to change the name when Penn State joined. I think it's a brilliant logo.

[Buzz Clik]

9. When the Big Eight added four more teams, they became the Big 12.

I don't follow the Big Ten's logic; although, there was hope that Northwestern could be dumped, getting the conference back to ten teams.

[Brickbat]

12. Big 10 was such an iconic name they didn't want to change it. I think it's pretty cool, m'self.

Also, "Big Eleven" sounds dumb.

[Richardo]

14. Kinda disses Penn State, doesn't it?

"Yes you can be in our conference but we won't acknowledge your existence by changing our two-syllable, six-letter name."

[Brickbat]

31. But...they did acknowledge Penn State's existence by changing the logo, and changing the number.

*shrug* I don't think they complained.

[Kalyke]

6. Because there are 11 schools in it now.

And they think we Southerners aren't edjumacated.

:hi:


FWIW,

[Buzz Clik]

4. Excited about that win over the Irish, eh?

[marmar]

8. You know it.

:woohoo:

[Buzz Clik]

11. It's a good day when Notre Dame loses, no matter who they play.

For the remaining weeks of Michigan's schedule, I'll be pulling for the other team. :evilgrin:

[BlooInBloo]

24. The Cleveland Bradyquinns lost too!

:rofl:

[Brickbat]

5. MIAC.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

7. Big East...........

GO MOUNTIES!!!!



Hope you guys are enjoying Rodriguez. Hope he's more loyal to you than he was to us.

[Blue_Tires]

10. SIAC

but my grad school is in the Big XII

[a la izquierda]

23. Where did/do you go to grad school?

[Blue_Tires]

30. KU

[brendan120678]

13. St. John's University - BIG EAST!!

The best basketball conference EVER!!
And a rising power in football, as well.

[TransitJohn]

29. Big East football is dying, not rising.

Syracuse, the 'Ville, and the Mountaineers have fallen off the map. Seriously, if Cincinnati is your best hope, well, the football must suck.

[TransitJohn]

15. Dude, the MAC

warrants a place in your poll, but the Mountain West Conference doesn't? Don't you like college football? The Mountain West is the 3rd toughest league this year, and we just might get a team in the title game with the right breaks. Go 'Pokes!
Edited to add:

[marmar]

33. Sorry, regional bias.

The MAC is in the sports pages here in the Great Lakes region more than the Mountain West.

[csziggy]

16. NCAA so far, if FSU is not thrown out

And depending on what the NCAA does about their "confidential" papers:

Judge signs order compelling FSU, NCAA to turn over documents

By Paul Flemming • Florida Capital Bureau • August 28, 2009

TALLAHASSEE -- Circuit Judge John Cooper has signed a final judgment ordering the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Florida State University and the school's lawyers to release records in an ongoing sanctions appeal. Cooper ruled last week, but his order today starts the clock running on release of the documents sought in a media lawsuit to enforce the state's open-records law. Cooper ordered a transcript of an appeal hearing before the NCAA's committee on infractions as well as the NCAA's response to FSU's appeal released.

Lawyers for the NCAA said last week they would seek an emergency stay to hold off release of the records, now required within 48 hours of Cooper's order. Florida's Gannett Co. Inc. newspapers and television stations were among 27 papers, stations and media organizations who filed suit in June to force release of documents in an athletic-program infraction case.

The NCAA made documents in the case available to FSU outside lawyers on a secure computer and required a confidentiality agreement. The NCAA maintained the documents are not public records subject to Florida open-government laws. The day after the lawsuit was filed, the NCAA allowed FSU officials to transcribe a response to the ongoing appeal and release a version, redacted of student names, to the media.

More: http://www.news-press.com/article/20090828/SPORTS/90828029/1010/sports

All this controversy is the only reason I know which one FSU is in.

[Viking12]

17. I voted for Big ten but have degrees from multiple schools....

Undergrad:


Grad:




Grad:

[a la izquierda]

18. Big East.

Rutgers College '99.
Currently a proud student of a Big 12 school.

[knitter4democracy]

19. NCCAA, but I just have to say...

Go Green!! Go White!! :D

[1gobluedem]

20. Mine is the same as yours

BA in History, 1982.

[nyc 4 Biden]

21. SUNYAC

State University of NY Athletic Conference

stop laughing!

[Arugula Latte]

22. Pac 10 ... University of California at Berkeley

[BlooInBloo]

25. Best one sports-wise is big east.

[TransitJohn]

26. If you don't care about football.

Their basketball is of course out of every one else's league.

[BlooInBloo]

27. Sorry - I mean the best conference out of my alma maters.

[TransitJohn]

28. Gotcha.

I'm a :dunce:

[HopeHoops]

32. ICLKC

IC Lite Kegger Conference

(Iron City)

The football team wasn't particularly good on the field, but they sure knew how to chug. This didn't stop them from walking around campus acting like gods. Needless to say, they weren't the "best and the brightest".

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

34. Pac10 - Arizona State

I miss college too, and especially college football (it's really hard to follow from Italy).
One of my fondest memories from college is when we played Nebraska in 1996 and won 19-0. Obviously I had no voice left when I left the stadium, and later when I was at a bar a cheering crowd came by carrying a goalpost...

Go Devils! :evilgrin:

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

35. ACC... Simply the best! n/t

[FlyByNight]

36. Big East

University of Connecticut.

:thumbsup:

[Critters2]

37. Missouri Valley.

Even though my alma mater--Illinois State--is nowhere near the Missouri River. Go figure.

[sinkingfeeling]

38. Big Ten, but the true super power of it..... OSU!!

[ceile]

39. Heartland Conference NCAA Div II

Go Hilltoppers!

[flvegan]

40. Big East

[taught_me_patience]

41. Midwest bias in this poll

Included the MAC but left out the Mountain West and WAC? Hell... the Mountain West might be better than the Big 10 this year.