(11-01-2018 01:54 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  JDGaucho stands alone in thinking California students (and most alumni) give a crap about any schools beyond the California borders, or where Californians go to school in numbers. Maybe Nevada (Reno) for Sac area, but they play FBS Football.

Sac State or SJSU -if they give up on Football and invest the money in other sports- are the only schools that realistically would be considered. Both rate ahead of CSUB (who they sort of had to take to keep internal peace).

The Big West is a California Public University League; it doesn't need or want anything else.

CSUB's average basketball attendance in 2018 was 2,798 per game. They get a boost hosting New Mexico State, Utah Valley and Grand Canyon. They get a boost being the only Cal State school in the WAC. You think the fan interest there is going to increase simply because those three are suddenly replaced by UC Davis, UC Riverside and Cal State Fullerton? I don't.

I'm willing to do a signature bet CSUB's average attendance will drop by 25% in their first year of Big West membership.

CSUB and UCSD won't be draws when they are on the road either.