<p>Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, Cal Tech, USC. </p>
<p>Its in the works.</p>
<p>Without a D-1 football team, CalTech can't join the big boys.</p>
<p>Who cares about football teams. Its about establishing a good ole boys network on the west coast. And these are the s</p>
<p>schools to do it. =)</p>
<p>Ummm. Wrong.</p>
<p>It's all about football teams...and basketball and track and college sports in general.</p>
<p>^ Most of the time that ivy leagues brag about ivy league status, trust me, they aren't bragging about their football teams.</p>
<p>You're correct. They're relying on the idiotic but disturbingly popular notion that the Ivy League is some academic alliance of elite private universities. The people who take this as fact are the same who think Stanford and MIT are Ivies and that their (or their mother's/sister's/cousin's twice removed) school was invited to become an Ivy but turned it down for XYZ (made-up) reason.</p>
<p>And this is why people who call for a West Coast (or southern or Midwest or whatever) Ivy League come off looking uninformed and/or dim.</p>
<p>^ Jeez. I said it before. The notion of an academic elite ivy league exists. It isnt going to go away just because we sit here and say its just a football league.</p>
<p>If we sit around and do nothing to establish a similar academic elite league on the west coast to counter this status monopoly of the Ivies, then we deserve to have our rankings handed to our asses through bias every single year.</p>
<p>Did someone say status seeking? Do I detect hurt feelings? Poor poor boy . . . now back to your sandbox, and no more pouting . . . play nice you two!</p>