Resurrecting this thread. One of the boards I belong to with a strong PAC12 contingent (I am the lone Stanford Homer) has had a three day debate between Oregon and U$C fans over who owns the conference. SC cites heritage, as do Husky fans, Oregon cites recency.
The following is an amusing take from one of the $C fans:
Quote:If the Pac was a car in the early years Washington and Cal drove it often , in the 20s 30s 40s USc Cal Stanford mostly drove it with an occasional trip to the store by UCLA Oregon State and Washington State. in the 50s and 60s it was Washington, USC , Cal , Oregon State and Stanford taking turns . Oh Oregon did take it to fill up the tank a couple of times but always had to take someone with them. In the 70s it was mostly parked at USCs house with Stanford , Washington , UCLA taking it out for long drives and Arizona took it to get washed. In the 80s Washington and UCLA took turns parking it at their house and took it out all the time and USC and Arizona state taking it around the block a few times. in the 90s is was mostly Washington car with Washington State, UCLA, Stanford USC Arizona getting to drive it around the block heck even Oregon drove it once. in the 2000s Oregon took it out handed the keys to USC and USC drove it for the longest time anyone could remember ran out of gas and gave the keys back to Oregon whos had it in their garage but Stanford keeps prying up the garage door and taking it. I think Stanford owns it right now.
