University of Chicago is a Big Ten member. Just not for sports ......
let me be more clear
UC Davis plays FCS football in the Big Sky (other sports are Big West). Maybe FCS is an option for Cal?
This is the perfect opportunity for its woke faculty to reassert themselves and demand the elimination of the football program citing the hyper and toxic masculinity that is promoted within the game of American football. UCSD doesn't have a football program, neither does UC Santa Cruz, why should the flagship university expose its students to such a vile and masculine sport.
UCLA, Cal, and Davis are the only UC schools that play football. But yes, I see you had the need to go there about woke faculty wanting to eliminate football when no one was suggesting that. Another f*cking CE board jack off.
Interesting and funny anecdote. The school was only just shy of 40 years old, I believe. A decade later and part way through the Wooden years and a run of multiple basketball titles, UCLA reached its 50th anniversary as an institution in 1969. Amazingly Rutgers would come up on 200 in less than a decade from then.
I think part of the ingrained academic vs. athletic tension seems to be further propagated by each side having its own brand. Seems intentional albeit shooting yourself in the foot in the overall scheme. Difficult to get folks to pull together and go in the same direction.
Seriously? There is a strong contingent of administrators, faculty, students, and local residents that would love to see the football program canceled at Cal. This may be the perfect opportunity for them to push for an end to an archaic and dangerous (don't forget head injuries) expression of naked aggression and toxic masculinity.
UCLA's roots go back to 1881. The University of California's administration, based in Berkeley, initial fought making UCLA part of the University of California in 191, and UCLA did not achieve co-equal status until 1951. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_Angeles
Just so you know . . a Cal professor has suggested in print that football is "a ritualized form of homosexual rape." https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,946181,00.html
I'm surprised by your second paragraph. UCLA seems to have no problem thriving with both brands, and I don't think either trumps the other in public awareness. If anything, the two work together.
uhhh, CAL is in this mess precisely because of just that type nonsense.
they have a good balance for some odd reason
I think you misunderstood what I meant by brands as I was piggybacking off the multiple naming references you had articulated relative to Cal vs. Berkeley/UC-Berkeley/Cal-Berkeley. No one is putting any of the latter triumvirate onto a uniform, helmet, or stenciled onto a playing field/court. It likely makes the most sense to brand the sports teams as Cal as they do. But that's not used widely for the academic institution, or is it?
Sorry to have misunderstood. I understand students at Berkeley call the place Cal. But no one back here does. When the law school decided to re-brand itself, it adopted "Berkeley Law." IMHO, the sports teams ought to have the same brand. But that offends Cal fans who do not like being associated with the town of Berkeley. (As at many schools, sports fans tend to be more conservative than the average student or alum.)
Isn't Cal like half a billion in debt because from their stadium deal ? I don't think they can just fold up the tent just yet.
Agreed. As I said in another post, I hope the Big Ten goes to 24 by adding Cal and Stanford out west and UNC, UVa, GaTech and Miami out East. I think all of those programs fit the academic and athletic model. Nebraska and Oregon would be the outliers, though Oregon is at least making some strides to up its academic side.
cultural fits sound great but now it's the money that they can breing in that counts and Cal/Stanford don't bring much, if any at all, and that's why they are Mountain West material and not B1G,even if they are cultural fits for the B1G
SD State and SJ State are not part of the University of California system, but rather part of the California State University system, which is the second tier in California higher education.Actually UCSD does have football.. as does SDstate, SJstate, god knows how many..
The Toreros are the University of San Diego (USD). They’re a private Jesuit school like Gonzaga, Santa Clara, etc. In fact, I believe they hired Steve Lavin as their men’s basketball coach last year. I was referring to the UC system though for football. Only UCLA, Cal, and UC Davis have football. The Cal State system has more schools that play football. The ones above and throw in Fresno State, Cal Poly too among those.Actually UCSD does have football.. as does SDstate, SJstate, god knows how many..
I don't think they will because tv (Fox) won't back it. They don't have the numbers to justify it. If ND came along sure but without them I don't think you can add them right now.
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