<p>Ok. Since there is an Ivy League for private expensive universities on the east coast. I think I should make one for the west coast. I shall call it the Olive League. Yes, the Olive League. I base the colleges for the Olive League on the "Times" UK top universities in the world, which do not count the school's wealth as much as US News does. The colleges will include public universities too! The schools that are in this league are:
1. Stanford University (Rank 8 or 7 for Top Universities in the world. "Times" UK)
2. UC Berkeley (Rank 2 University in the World)
3. Cal Tech
4. UC Los Angeles
5. UC San Diego
6. USC</p>
<p>......fabulous</p>
<p>that's so cute. XD</p>
<p>Why not call it the Palm League?
Ivy :: Palm seems to be more analogous than Ivy :: Olive.
[list=0][<em>]Stanford
[</em>]Caltech
[<em>]UC Berkeley
[</em>]UCLA[/list]</p>
<p>Hey, that already exists the Pac-10(plus caltech, minus a few others).</p>
<p>Pac-10 is a okay name. Ohh. Palm League sounds good too. But I picked Olive League since it represents peace in the world like the UN Olive branch, plus acceptance in the world. Palm League is very Stanfordish. UCSD can be there too. It might not be as high in US News ranking, but I still consider it a excellent school, better than UCLA in some respects. Cal Tech must be in Olive League too!</p>
<p>What is the point of this league?</p>
<p>to fuel the op's boredom</p>
<p>Where is Pomona on that list? Smokes everbody but Stanford and Cal Tech.</p>
<p>May I suggest a couple of possible alternatives? Avocado or artichoke league. During a recent visit, I learned that artichokes grow in CA to such an extent that some kids are weaned on them. (jk) Avocados are also grown in great numbers as well.</p>
<p>LOL. just to play along, as you mentioned the Ivy league is all private schools and your list is half UC "publics". And the Pac10, other than SC and Stanford is all public schools. </p>
<p>So to stick with some top private schools out here for a western "Ivy", while I do like the Palm league, that's pretty much just a SoCal thing, not the whole coast, so how about the "Left Coast League" of Cal Tech, Stanford, Pomona, USC, Claremont Mckenna, Harvey Mudd, Reed and Occidental. For women's sports gotta include Scripps.</p>
<p>After all, the Ivy league is a sports conference, that's how these schools got their name, at least in part. (It would be interesting if the Ivy league had not been formed how the members would be viewed, would they be so closely associated, would another school(s) slip into that "prestige" level as viewed by some). In any event, Stanford vs. Scripps in the Rose Bowl for the BCS title. I like it.</p>
<p>Uh, the Ivy League is a Division I sports conference, unless you want to drop Stanford to Division III and not allow them any money to get people to play for their teams, then I'd leave them off the list. Then again, I couldn't imagine Stanford playing Pomona or ::grin:: Cal-Tech in any competitive sport.</p>
<p>I like the poster above me who created a league with "Cal Tech, Stanford, Pomona, USC, Claremont Mckenna, Harvey Mudd, Reed and Occidental.", but please, USC and Stanford shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath as Occidental or Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Ecliptica- its tough to find too many top ranked private schools out here on the West coast-gotta stretch a little bit here for my conference. LOL.</p>
<p>BTW, while the Ivies are D-1, they pretty much conduct themselves as a D-3, with no athletic scholarships, although I hear Princeton seems to find away around that with certain grants LOL. and the level of play at the Ivies is pretty analogous to D-3. </p>
<p>Pomona has played some Ivies who have traveled out here. A season or so ago they hosted Dartmouth in baseball.</p>
<p>Stanford certainly is big time D-1 in football, basketball and baseball etc. they have though, I believe, competed in certain sports with Pomona and the other Claremont schools such as in X-C. Pomona defintely competes against D-1 schools at times (in addition to X-c, other sports like water polo I believe and have definitely played D-1 schools in basketball and baseball. Cal Tech, well there's another story-no offense to their athletes who are truly student-athletes.</p>
<p>Why not the Oak league? Since poison Ivy and poison oak both give you rashes, its a pretty good analogy</p>
<p>Good analogy, but the oak tree isn't distinctive enough as a West Coast icon, I think...</p>
<p>You guys are very SATish. Trying to use analogies. Maybe we can name it Sunny League. Sounds very happy! California is sunny most of the time. I can try Palm or Olive League.</p>
<p>How about making it the Olive League and broadening it to school west of the Misssissippi?</p>
<p>Olive League
Stanford
Pomona
Rice
CalTech
Creighton
Grinell</p>
<p>Nevermind, that list is a big fruit basket :)</p>
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Stanford certainly is big time D-1 in football, basketball and baseball etc. they have though, I believe, competed in certain sports with Pomona and the other Claremont schools such as in X-C.
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<p>Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Stanford XC is an NCAA perennial powerhouse. There's maybe two TEAMS total that compete with Stanford on a yearly basis that can even try to compete against Stanford and that's Arkansas and Wisconsin. The people that Stanford brings in every year for that XC team is ridiculous and if they didn't all go down with stress fractures during championship time :rolleyes: they'd win Nationals probably 3 out of every 5 years.</p>
<p>The Ivy League schools are old private schools, except Cornell, founded before the Revolution. Those schools had a historical link to form a sport conference. The Ivy schools are similar and have the same recruitment rules.</p>
<p>Now I dont see any reason why Stanford, Caltech, UC San Diego, Pomona, Claremont Mckenna, Harvey Mudd, Reed and Occidental should be in a sport conference together. I cant wait to see the Stanford football team plays against the Caltech team. The score would be 1,000 VS 0 in the first quarter. It is just not fair for Caltech and other small LAC to compete against a Pac 10 div 1 team. Sorry, the Olive league is a bad idea as a sport league.</p>
<p>Yeah, most people forget the "Ivy" is really just an athletic distinction. Of course, all of the schools are top-notch academically, but a lot of them made a big gain in rep by simply being associated with others. Many people use the word "Ivy" to mean good school, when really they should just say "good school" as Ivy leaves out most of the good schools in the country.</p>