04-11-2014, 09:19 AM
(04-11-2014, 07:06 AM)Farm93 link Wrote:As you noted at the beginning those are YOUR big three. They are not THE big three. In NCAA terms baseball and hockey are probably right there with women's hoops nationally. And 20 years ago baseball was definitely bigger than women's hoops.
My guess is that you will discover as this thread grows that Stanford does not have a big three.
Great points, but in the relatively brief time that I've participated, it seems to me that football and women's and men's basketball are the big three for the CARDBoard. Sure, the other NCAA sports are mentioned, especially when they are in the running for a NC or an alumna/ae makes it big (e.g. Julie Foudy, Tiger Woods). But if someone generated a word cloud of CARDBoard text over its history, wouldn't my big three be the most mentioned? Also, baseball and hockey certainly have their shining moments for the NCAA, but I believe that, across the entire country, nothing generates revenue and/or visibility like my big three.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)