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What do you think of "America 12," the name floated for the old Big East?

08 March 2013
15 Comments

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SEATTLE BUCKEYE on 8 Mar 2013 - 9:42am #

'MURICA!

GV9 on 8 Mar 2013 - 10:36am #

America 12 ?

Sounds like the cheapest tier of channels for cable TV ;)

Jdadams01 on 8 Mar 2013 - 10:54am #

Better than Legends and Leaders.

BuddhaBuck on 8 Mar 2013 - 3:14pm #

The bar wasn't set real high.... like a 3-inch high-jump bar..

Keep Calm and Ignore the Trolls.

acBuckeye on 8 Mar 2013 - 11:01am #

"Hated it." - Men on Films

HolgateBuckeye on 8 Mar 2013 - 11:13am #

Anyone know if the conference will have divisions? They could split north-south and call their conference championship the "Civil War". Or would that cause to many political complaints?

ArTbkward on 8 Mar 2013 - 11:58am #

That's already taken by the non-Civil War state of Oregon when the Ducks play Oregon State.

We should strive to keep thy name, of fair repute and spotless fame...
(Also, I'm not a dude)

Jason Staff on 8 Mar 2013 - 12:16pm #

Yeah!

Run_Fido_Run on 8 Mar 2013 - 12:24pm #

When the Catholic 7 bought the "Big East" name, why didn't the remaining Big East members then offer to purchase the "Conference USA" name from the leftovers in that conference? After all, isn't America 12 pretty much UCONN + CUSA?

In turn, the CUSA leftovers could offer to buy "Sun Belt" name from the Sunbelt leftovers.

At that point, the Sunbelt leftovers would have to come up with a brand new name from scratch. Then, they could buy the name America 12.

MediBuck on 8 Mar 2013 - 12:53pm #

So it's not quite Conference USA and not quite Catholic 7...
It sounds horrible, and frankly, I'd just go with the SUNBEAST CONFERENCE: http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2011/10/18/2498232/behold-the-fu...

Personally, I think they should have kept the "Big" part, and added some nominal suffix like a number or random geographical element. Why not "Big Eleven" to nestle nicely between the Big Ten and Big XII? Not like those numbers mean anything anymore. Or better yet, Big XIV, in anticipation of future expansion! Take that, team poachers!! ACC, where is your god now?

"There is a force that makes us all brothers, no one goes his way alone." --Woody Hayes

Earle on 8 Mar 2013 - 1:05pm #

Putting the "America" thing aside for the moment (when is the NCAA planning on expanding outside of our borders?), I think its simply idiotic to put a number in the name of a conference when the schools keep jumping from one to another.

Given the departure of the Catholic 7, I thought they might go with something like "The Big Reformation Conference"