In My Onion

    In my opinion, the Big 12 Conference should blossom into a super conference.    With the addition of Colorado to the Big 12 in 2024, the conference will have thirteen schools. Rather than stopping with the addition of one more, either a Four Corners school like Utah or one of the Arizonas, I'd like them to keep going, to push towards building a revolutionary open league.         I've been intrigued with the concept of sports leagues that promote and relegate teams that are on the fence, and promotion and relegation are the key to this suggestion for the Big 12. With my proposal, the top performing programs would be in the upper tier with the best twelve teams from the previous season. The schools that round out the rest of this uber conference would battle it out in the contender tier with the top two schools moving up with the best, taking the spots of the teams finishing in eleventh and twelfth place. Of course, those programs would drop down and become contenders.    

    The good citizens of these United States struggle mightily with the subject of geography, and for decades, unscientific speculation has just about proven that the NFL is at the root of this deficiency.  U.S. Students Are Terrible at Geography (usnews.com)       No one seems to know for sure when this decline began, but more than a few non-scholars have pinpointed Tampa Bay's placement in the NFC Central as the beginning of this downward slide into geographic ineptitude in the classroom.      "Something must be done!" a hallucinated source exclaimed before adding, "For the children!" The source declined to confirm if they were a mother or father, earthling or ET, but their passion regarding this subject matter was undeniable. They ran away in tears.     Florida is on the southeast coast, but the Buccaneers were put in the Northernmost division... with the cold weather teams —Minnesota, Chicago, Detroit, and Green Bay—Brrr. In 1977, it was called the NFC Centr

     "In my opinion, In My Onion is a good name for a blog."  This is how I ended my first post, which got me thinking about the evolution of our language, or maybe more accurately: American slang.       I'm the proud father of a very cool teenager, so as I typed that sentence in post number one, I was thinking of how she and her classmates might phrase the same opinion. "IMO, In My Onion is a sick  name for a blog." However, I'm not a teen, plus I think that line may be overstating. I just think it's good .     Still, I grew up in the 1970's and watched a lot of Brady Bunch as a kid. The Brady's would have likely said it like this, "In my opinion, In My Onion is a groovy name for a blog." Of course, there were no blogs in the Brady days, but you follow me.      Even though I'm too old to pull it off, I like to use the word dope. As in, "In my opinion, In My Onion is a dope name for a blog." But I didn't do it. Again

    This will be the initial post of my second blog. The name of my first, Blood, Sweat, and Pig's Ears , came after some considerable thought, prompted by my own unspoken question; What's a unique blog title?  Of course, that blog was about home renovating, or more specifically, my approach or take on renovating, so that was top of mind as I was considering something that might be a distinct enough name that no one else would already have staked a claim.     BSAPE has become a big part of my life since I first clicked on Publish back in October 2011. In a roundabout way, blogging has been lifealtering for me. Still, I don't blog every day and sometimes I've gone long stretches without even opening my online baby; Blood, Sweat, and Pig's Ears, out on its own in cyberspace.      Somewhere along the line I read some advice about staying on topic while blogging. And I'll say, for the most part, I've held to within those margins. Yet there have been times when