If I'm not mistaken, my Gamecocks are playing at UCLA and Stanford next season. If so, I'm there. I have a great niece and great nephew in Irvine I haven't met yet. I still can't wrap my head around my nephew and niece in law moving from Santa Monica to Irvine.
Let's just say I've had decades of practice with U$C, and fUCLA has been making up for lost time the past couple of years...
USC was a founding member of the ACC so those rivalries are still fierce. It's really our natural home, moreso than the SEC.
Nothing natural or home about Tobacco Road!
Speaking as a Bay Area local Stanford alum who enjoyed 80 degree days in February during undergrad, and who will be watching his team travel for a "conference" away game to Syracuse, NY next winter, "natural home" doesn't seem to count for as much as it used to...
Sigh; and it's to the detriment of rivalries. At least Cal (do you have a fun nickname for them?) is moving with you.
If they do, I'd love to hear it. I would be surprised if they didn't.
Between us (shhh), I'm also a Cal alum (for my Ph.D.), and I absolutely admire the institution, even though I never formed an attachment to its sports teams. So although our fanboard calls them the "Weenies," I can't get on board with that, even though I also don't actively root for them. (And honestly, Stanford is blessed with so many more resources and so much less bureacuacy than Cal is, that I find it almost kind of indecent to root against them.)
I assumed the nickname that Stanford alums have for Cal alums is “poor.”
I wouldn’t care if UConn got a 7 seed this year tbh. No expectations for this group and really match ups are more important than anything elss this year more than ever.Not sure why, but Creme moved UConn out of Albany this morning . . .
Women's Bracketology: One final projection before the bracket is revealed
All 31 auto-bids are spoken for. Will UConn or UCLA be No. 1 overall? And where will the hosts be seeded?www.espn.com
I’m from SC. I can’t cast that stone.