UCSD needs a new referendum if they want to go to the WAC. Language was not a repeat of 2012, it added a specific conference. So it's Big West or nothing.

JDGaucho's post from WAC board (he found it)

(05-03-2017 01:32 AM)jdgaucho Wrote:  Found this on UCSD's newspaper. Athletics Director Earl Edwards says the referendum process starts over again if the Tritons attempt to join a different conference.

http://ucsdguardian.org/2017/04/25/athle...going-d-1/

In order to enter the other non-football Division-I conferences such as the West Coast Conference or the Mountain West Conference, UCSD would have to receive the financial backing to apply.

“If you’re going to apply to another conference, you need to have the financial backing to make that move, and our financial backing at this time is based on the student referendum that specifically states Big West only,” Edwards explained. “So if you were to look at another conference, you would have to look at another referendum.”