WSU and OSU are both Land Grant universities. Just because you have an Ag focus doesn't mean you can't be a cutting edge university. OSU will be at the front of the robotics, data center and AI industries moving forward. Cal can't say that.
Not to mention right now, they depending on which ranking you look at, OSU has the top forestry school in the US if not the world. Oh, also a top ten online undergrad school for the last ten years and running. A working person's top tier university. Personally I kinda like a "State" conference of Land Grant schools.
The funny thing is, it looks like college football is headed in a direction where the football side of universities is a separate entity altogether. a corporation of sorts and mascot type operation where the schools get some yearly cut of the money pie but have no say on operations.. This is rapidly morphing to multi $billion industry status for select programs.
Exactly, if Cal and Stanford really were so interested in using their football programs as a means of maintaining an aura around their academic standing, they should just go full out Ivy League and not sully their skirts in the fetid swamp of the new NFL Lite that has come to be.
If you looked at the statements coming out of CAL and Stanford when they chose to join the ACC, they put an emphasis on a broad scope of athletics. They said that they wanted to compete at the highest levels in what are often called the Olympic Sports. Stanford has won the Learfield Directors Cup in many years. (Awarded to the university having the most athletic success across 15+ sports.) 7 ACC universities ranked in top 25 (including CAL). The highest ranked university in the new PAC12 is San Diego State at #87.
Would be awesome, but those blue bloods aren’t excited about Fresno.
WSU and OSU are both Land Grant universities. Just because you have an Ag focus doesn't mean you can't be a cutting edge university. OSU will be at the front of the robotics, data center and AI industries moving forward. Cal can't say that.
Not to mention right now, they depending on which ranking you look at, OSU has the top forestry school in the US if not the world. Oh, also a top ten online undergrad school for the last ten years and running. A working person's top tier university. Personally I kinda like a "State" conference of Land Grant schools.
Great point. And I agree.
The funny thing is, it looks like college football is headed in a direction where the football side of universities is a separate entity altogether. a corporation of sorts and mascot type operation where the schools get some yearly cut of the money pie but have no say on operations.. This is rapidly morphing to multi $billion industry status for select programs.
Exactly, if Cal and Stanford really were so interested in using their football programs as a means of maintaining an aura around their academic standing, they should just go full out Ivy League and not sully their skirts in the fetid swamp of the new NFL Lite that has come to be.
If you looked at the statements coming out of CAL and Stanford when they chose to join the ACC, they put an emphasis on a broad scope of athletics. They said that they wanted to compete at the highest levels in what are often called the Olympic Sports. Stanford has won the Learfield Directors Cup in many years. (Awarded to the university having the most athletic success across 15+ sports.) 7 ACC universities ranked in top 25 (including CAL). The highest ranked university in the new PAC12 is San Diego State at #87.
Wouldn't be the worst thing to do.
It would certainly lower their cognitive dissonance quotient.