Article By Tobi Writes on 30th March, 2010
Eventually a circle of boosters and alumni from the Pac-10's "Big Five" (Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA, and Washington) come together and, probably due in small part due to the wine and a in small part due to a desire to torture a fellow Pac-10 alum outside their cabal, start woefully bemoaning the fact that the Big Five ever "lowered their standards" and expanded, admitting the last five members of the Pac-10.
Soon after, the talk turns to Cal Tech. An older UCLA grad throws out, "That's an academics school. Imagine if we had somehow dragged them along!"