Just wondering if any of you have had similar experiences, maybe I've been living under a rock.
I was at a party last night for the fight at a good friend's house who happens to be a Stanfurd guy. Overall, there was a strong contingency of Furd and Cal alumni present. Some of his friends from back home (SD) were in town, and they were primarily SDSU grads. We were talking about college fb/conference realignment/ BSU and SDSU moving to the Big East etc. One guy mentions how much he disliked, no, hated the Pac 12. The other SD folk seemed to agree with him. He points to our recent bball troubles to proclaim that the Mountain West is a better overall conference. Apparently, they became the west coast banner conference for bball since UCLA's last final four run. They all seemed to be of the belief that the Pac 12 was too elitist without reason, and that their favorite games to watch were those that Pac teams lost. Also, Berkeley and Stanford have a vendetta against SDSU, Fresno St and others and will do everything in their power to ensure that they never reach their full potential by joining the Pac. They are sleeping giants with everything in place, or so they say. It all sounded very obsessive and rather hateful, the only thing I can compare it to is how BYU fans talk about Utah these days. In short, they hate the LA schools because hey steal their recruits and they hate the Nor Cal schools because we hold the key to the door, and wont let them in, or something.
I never really thought about the Pac perspective from the CSU schools. To be honest, I didn't think there was one. Other than the occasional OOC game, we have very little to do with one another. I told them that it just doesn't make sense to add more CA schools, when we already have access to whatever it is they could hope to bring to the table. No point in taking in more mouths to feed. One of the Furd kids asked them if they were able to take advantage of the Pac being down, and if so, how many teams had made deep tourney runs during their "banner" years?
Didn't realize their was such animosity from the other CA schools, and after quickly browsing the SDSU and MNTW boards, they weren't kidding. They make the SEC trash talk seem friendly in comparison.
I was at a party last night for the fight at a good friend's house who happens to be a Stanfurd guy. Overall, there was a strong contingency of Furd and Cal alumni present. Some of his friends from back home (SD) were in town, and they were primarily SDSU grads. We were talking about college fb/conference realignment/ BSU and SDSU moving to the Big East etc. One guy mentions how much he disliked, no, hated the Pac 12. The other SD folk seemed to agree with him. He points to our recent bball troubles to proclaim that the Mountain West is a better overall conference. Apparently, they became the west coast banner conference for bball since UCLA's last final four run. They all seemed to be of the belief that the Pac 12 was too elitist without reason, and that their favorite games to watch were those that Pac teams lost. Also, Berkeley and Stanford have a vendetta against SDSU, Fresno St and others and will do everything in their power to ensure that they never reach their full potential by joining the Pac. They are sleeping giants with everything in place, or so they say. It all sounded very obsessive and rather hateful, the only thing I can compare it to is how BYU fans talk about Utah these days. In short, they hate the LA schools because hey steal their recruits and they hate the Nor Cal schools because we hold the key to the door, and wont let them in, or something.
I never really thought about the Pac perspective from the CSU schools. To be honest, I didn't think there was one. Other than the occasional OOC game, we have very little to do with one another. I told them that it just doesn't make sense to add more CA schools, when we already have access to whatever it is they could hope to bring to the table. No point in taking in more mouths to feed. One of the Furd kids asked them if they were able to take advantage of the Pac being down, and if so, how many teams had made deep tourney runs during their "banner" years?
Didn't realize their was such animosity from the other CA schools, and after quickly browsing the SDSU and MNTW boards, they weren't kidding. They make the SEC trash talk seem friendly in comparison.
