As if you need any further evidence that conference realignment has gotten way out of hand, Andy Glockner, Mike Greiner and NU Hoops Fan made a brilliant observation on Twitter just now: if a presidential candidate were to win every state with a current or incoming member of the Big East Conference, they would get 291 electoral votes — enough to capture the presidency, based on one league alone.
Heh. Andy suggests we rename the Big East the #ElectoralConference.
P.S. And then there’s this.
I remain fairly convinced that pretty much the only reasonable way to have California in a conference with the word East in it is if the league spans the Pacific Ocean…
Alternate approach: the conference is named Not The East.
How about “The Big Northeast & Midwest, Assorted Large States, and Idaho” Conference?
I’m still pulling for Big Leftovers