Comments on: Big 12 Considers Name Change

By: Robert Schonfeld

Robert Schonfeld — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:05:37 +0000

if your going to pick a name it has to make sense to the conference and something that will sell to the fanbase.Secondly you got to have teams close to home and close to travel range anywhere to far outside of travel range is pathedically stupid and idiotic and won’t last a very long time no matter if your a low major mid major or in a major conference.Timing and distance is everything conference wins and overall wins and tiebreakers too..If your going to sit there thinking it’s not such a big deal and they can go anywhere i damn please you are totally way off base it takes smart knowledge and brains to do the math if you don’t have that you shouldn’t be working for the industry.

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Big 12 Considers Name Change - Page 6 - CycloneFanatic — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 21:19:43 +0000

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By: sports-777

sports-777 — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:34:17 +0000

How about the Great American Heartland Conference? That would mean that they would not have to change the name again when, not if, expansion happens.

By: Michael from Indy

Michael from Indy — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:45:03 +0000

Matt,

I like the new format for your website.

Do you have any ideas as to what the Big 12 should rename itself? Most people get stuck on the “Big Texas” or something along those lines, but seriously, everyone knows that “Texas” isn’t going to be in the name. The name needs to reflect some kind of common thread for a group of schools, many of whom don’t have a whole lot in common, other than the mutual need for this shotgun marriage of a conference.

Two words stand out to me: Heartland and Frontier. “Heartland” is both charming and conveniently ambiguous from a geographical standpoint. If the league expanded, one could make a decent argument that Provo, UT, Louisville, KY, or Memphis, TN is in the Heartland. “Frontier” works well because it brings to mind the Old West, territory which included the Big 12′s northern, rural states as well as the now-urbanized state of Texas. The word “frontier” gives a tip of the cap to the region’s history, but “frontier” also makes me think of a place that’s the “next big thing.”

Unfortunately, there’s already a D-III Heartland Conference and an NAIA Frontier Conference. So maybe the Big 12 could go with Frontier (or Heartland) ATHLETIC Conference? After all, there is precedent: the old Southwest Conference co-existed with the 1-AA Southwest Athletic Conference (SWAC).