(This is a letter from University of Notre Dame alumnus Cappy Cagnon to fellow alum Bubba Cunningham, the University of North Carolina athletics director.)
Dear Bubba,
So, what does an old retired guy do, on a day when it’s too hot for golf?
I was musing about all these football conference realignments.
I’ve got a proposal for the Conference Formerly Known as the ACC:
Let’s change it to the Atlantic AND Pacific Coast Conference!
It’ll have 30 teams, in two separate “branches.” Each branch will have two divisions.
At the end of the year, the winners of each branch’s championship will play the winner from the other coast.
The Atlantic Branch of the A&P Coast Conference will consist of the current ACC lineup of:
Boston College
Clemson
Duke
Georgia Tech
Florida State
N.C. State
Syracuse
U. of L.
Miami
UNC
Notre Dame
Pittsburgh
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
The Pacific Branch of the A&P Conference will consist of:
Arizona
Arizona State
Boise State
BYU
Fresno State
Oregon
Oregon State
San Diego State
San Jose State
Stanford
UNLV
Utah
Utah State
Washington
Washington State
And what a gigantic TV package we should be able to put together.
Take THAT, conference formerly known as The Big Ten (and Western Conference and Big Nine)!
BTW, we even have a ready-made, long-standing, well understood, logo, from a company which dates back to 1859!
I’m too busy to become the commissioner of this new goliath conference, but Jim Phillips would do a great job … and I understand that Jack Swarbrick is soon to be unemployed.
Go Irish!
cap