Western Athletic Conference reforms with six new schools
By Jim Robinson
Ponyville Express
January 8, 2012
The new Western Athletic Conference will have six new schools playing in all sports starting with the 2012-13 season.
"We are glad to have Twilight Sparkle University, Applejack State University, Fluttershy College, Rarity College of the Arts, Rainbow Dash University and Pinkie Pie University form our new Western Athletic Conference," said athletic Director Jeff Hurd.
"These are new schools with talent and great football teams. We look forward to the 2012 season with these schools leading the way."
With all the schools just a 10 minute drive from each other in Northern California, the WAC headquarters will move to Sacramento this coming fall.
All of the schools are located outside Placerville, California, in the towns of Ponyville and Apple Acres. In addition, all the schools have been founded in 2010, meaning that the sports programs are relatively new.
However the talent on the football teams are not one to sneeze at. All the players on the six teams are 99-level, meaning that whenver a WAC game takes place, some of the best college football will take place with it.
ESPN.com's Mark May had nothing but high praise for the new WAC.
"Those schools may be nothing but full of ponies," May said, "but they have some of the best football teams in all of college football. Watch out America, the WAC is back with a vengeance!"
"How can the smallest conference in all of college football be the strongest conference in all of college football?" asked ESPN.com's Heather Dinich. "Simple. Just get the talent and it's a foregone conclusion."
"I would be scared of the WAC right now," said ESPN's Ivan Maisel. "The teams that are there now may be small schools, but they pack a punch that I don't think even Alabama can match.
"It's a shame regarding the six schools that dropped football, but it really was a changing of the guard in this long-suffering conference."
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