Utah to the Pac-10

It's official, Utah has joined the Pac-10. Or should we call it the Pac-12 now?

The rumors, projections, closed door meetings and dealings are over and the celebration has begun.

The University of Utah is officially part of the Pac-10. The move from the Mountain West Conference to the elite league was quickly approved Thursday by the unanimous vote of Utah's Board of Trustees in a public meeting at Rice-Eccles Stadium.

"This is an absolutely great day to be a Ute," said longtime Utah athletics director Chris Hill.

Even though the super conference idea with the Big 12 South is deader than Michael Jackson, the idea that the Pac-10 has added more schools makes me like the situation that the conference is in. It's at least good they were proactive with expansion instead of reactive like the Big-12 errrr.... Big 10 now.

They didn't get the prettiest girl at the prom, getting schools like Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State would have blown up the Pac-10 to epic proportions. It also wouldn't have made a whole lot of geographical sense but whatever. It would have been great to get those big schools and big money into the conference but WSU fans... you wouldn't have been competitive ever again.

Colorado and Utah make sense though. First you capture the Denver and Salt Lake City markets which gives you an even bigger stranglehold out west. You give the Arizona schools somebody closer to develop rilvaries with. You keep the "travel partner" system together and you can hope and pray that Colorado and Utah develop into bitter rivals.

(Can somebody go and defecate on a John Elway statue in Denver and then put a Utah Jazz jersey on it?)

This gives Utah a chance to show that they're a national program after getting snuffed by the BCS for years. It's a very underrated school and has both strong football and basketball programs. It's also not BYU... which is great.

Colorado was one of the weaker schools in the Big 12 but I think it will do better since the bottom half of the Pac-10 is a lot worse than the Big 12. 

Pac-10 fans might find the not becoming the Pac-16 might of been the best thing to happen to it.

Now if they could just fix those refs. Woof!

Schools the Pac-10 should think about getting for expansion

Before the Pac-10 becomes the Pac-39, here are some schools there should look at.

WSU - they're not in the league right now are they? Oh they are? Oops.

School of Hard Knocks - Their mascot, the high school dropout, is pretty cool.

Some Canadian school - that would make the Pac-10 competitive in Hockey. We're not being stereotypical are we?

Duke University - That way they could smell their own farts with the academics at Cal and Stanford.

The School for the Blind - This is where you could get all the Pac-10 refs!

Tim Tebow University - Formerly known as the University of Florida.

Seattle Seahawks - Come on, coached by Pete Carroll, a roster of good college players, they might even go to a bowl game.

How to tell if your college conference is a joke

After watching a lot of the Pac-10 Tournament, I have to say that the conference is a big joke. Ugly game after ugly game and even though it's cool that Washington won, I'm pretty sure they're gonna get a 16-seed in the NCAA Tourney. Here are some signs your conference sucks...

1. The conference basketball championship tournament is played in the Toyota Center in the Tri-Cities and you can't sell half the seats in the arena.

2. Instead of getting a bid to the NCAA Tournament, your team receives a check from the Publishers Clearing House for thirty dollars.

3. When your conference talks about expansion, it names schools like "The Community Colleges of California" and "East West North Montana State College for Canadian Citizens."

4. To boost attendance, your conference suggests dime beer night. On college campuses. For women's games.

5. The best player in the conference is Gary Coleman.

6. Your conference's baseball league consists of fat guys playing softball.

7. Your conference's top Bowl Game invite also doubles as a chance for your school's intramural football team to work on their flag grabbing skills.

8. The conference website is just a Craigslist Ad.

9. The best part about the conference? The refs are extremely overweight and easy to heckle.

10. Washington St. is dominating your conference in the football standings.