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(05-14-2017 01:55 AM)Stugray2 Wrote:  None of you guys have a clue about the CSU system. If you knew what it was, you'd realize it is a miracle there are three FBS schools from their ranks.

These various Cal States are not comparable to the likes of Mississippi State, Kansas State, Oregon State, Colorado State, or even Utah State. They are not residential schools (Cal Poly the lone exception), they are by and large commuter schools, with a majority of community college transfers finishing their degrees. They are drive-by schools with all the school spirit of a community college - yes these places are dead. They don't have any Carnegie R1 or R2 ratings (SDSU an exception).

We sometimes say, in California we have the best tier-1 system (UC) in the nation, and a below average tier-3 system (CSU). The gap is massive and greater than any other state I can think of with two statewide systems.

On the west coast, probably more than anywhere else in the nation, to have strong support you need to draw from the alumni and the students. The students must attend in large number (school spirit) and it must be part of the culture, which gets carried over to their later life as alumni. Beyond Cal Poly and San Diego State that is largely missing in the CSU system, but is abundant in the UC system. This corresponds to high graduation rates and younger average student age. If you don't have that you struggle. The reason you go to a Cal State is because you did your first couple years of GE and you can;t get in (or dropped out of) a UC. So you go to the one nearest home and get the degree you need to go to work. Not surprising donation rates are lower, and the low research rankings result in many fewer corporate sponsors and alliances. I am exaggerating a bit for dramatic effect, but the numbers back up the basic description.

If UC Davis ever gets sound leadership (right now it has very weak leadership), it is the one school in the Sacramento (and frankly all of California) that could move up to FBS. The CSU schools are as far up the latter as they can go. None are moving up in the next quarter century.

We shall see. I listened to my UCLA grad sister and brother in law comment the kids of their peers could get in the UC's people wanted to attend. These people donated money to the school and are starting to turn their back on it. Ca is ripe for the taking by the Big 12 if they had any clue.
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You are a Fresnik loyalist. I understand the rose colored glasses you look at your school with. It was the last of the CSUs to fall off in attendance and start to have the feel of a commuter school. It used to be the thing to do in town, to go to Fresno State games, and that was where the pride came from. I know I'm from the last days San Jose State had some of that (less). But Fresno draws townees like no other school in California. It no longer draws them like in the 90's, but that is part of an overall trend. It will take a generation, but UC Merced will replace Fresno state as the campus Valley kids prefer to go to. That is another corrosive you are not accounting for.

UC Davis is growing and has a massive endowment. It has the infrastructure and financial capacity to be a major athletic power. The campus has the room to expand to over 50,000 students, if the political climate of the UC regents ever lifts the cap on expansion -- the political pressure to keep the campuses University of Virginia sized, in order to maintain UCLA and UC Berkeley, is the biggest constraint to their growth (that and poor leadership). Looking at current athletic department competence, as you are doing, is not a good long term model to understand the school's potential.

I do think five or six Cal States can move into the R2 category like SDSU and can become true tier-2 schools with much more selective admission standards, like the State Us in other parts of the country. But this requires either a change in the CSU charter, or far better the splitting of the CSU system into two systems, in order to allow for mission differentiation. California politics, and the Californian worship of elitism behind that thinking are the the two road blocks. I don't see any force out there to remove those.
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It looks bad when San Jose State is tier 4 for academics at Carnegie. Arkansas Tech is listed there as well along with Arkansas State and UCA. Little Rock is R3. I can't believe they are up there already.
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Carnegie is research rankings, not academics per se. R stands for research.

Cal Poly has minimal research, but as a school ranks higher than a few UCs as far as selectivity. There are many schools with lower research rankings, but high academic rankings. Many Jesuit schools have very high academic standards and are well regarded, but do not have a Carnegie ranking.

An extreme example to illustrate: Dartmouth is not an R1 school, but Kansas State is. Is there any question that a degree in pretty much any discipline from Dartmouth is worth far more than a degree from Kansas State?

The point of Carnegie ranking is the impact it has on corporate support. SDSU has carved out a unique niche at the pinnacle of the CSU system. Many others could do similar if the CSU system were reformed to allow that. San Jose State ranks at the top of CSUs in terms of income for graduates, ahead of all but 4 or 5 UCs, because of it's heavy mix of vocational degrees (Engineering, CS, Chemistry, Business, Nursing, Criminal Justice) compared to the Liberal Arts heavy UCs. The school of course could be much more if unshackled by the constraints of the CSU charter, due to it's location and infrastructure.
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(05-14-2017 12:37 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  Carnegie is research rankings, not academics per se

Yeah, tier 4 is not really research. I know we added some technology research and do have a nursing program, and agriculture research for the farmers. We have been adding new degrees at the school in recent years. Before the research rankings came out last year? We were like tier 7. We are just one step away from getting the R3.
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(05-14-2017 12:45 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  
(05-14-2017 12:37 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  Carnegie is research rankings, not academics per se

Yeah, tier 4 is not really research. I know we added some technology research and do have a nursing program, and agriculture research for the farmers. We have been adding new degrees at the school in recent years. Before the research rankings came out last year? We were like tier 7. We are just one step away from getting the R3.

How much research dollars did Arkansas Tech get last year? Not trolling; I'm interested
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I never realized to what degree the Cal St schools were forced to operate as commuter schools. So the state legislature won't let them have the dorms and infrastructures to provide traditional, on-campus experiences to California residents who either can't get into a UC or for personal reasons, like proximity to home would rather attend a Cal St.

In Ohio, Ohio State serves as our flagship and land grant. Miami has plenty of academic prestige and public ivy status but all of our other public schools with the exception of maybe Wright St are very much residential. There are a few smaller ones like Shawnee St who are primarily commuter based but they are NAIA and not NCAA D1.

You would think a state as large as California would have more public residential universities especially when unlike back east there isn't the vast number of private options we have in the Midwest and East Coast.
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(05-14-2017 11:46 AM)Stugray2 Wrote:  Sactowndog,

You are a Fresnik loyalist. I understand the rose colored glasses you look at your school with. It was the last of the CSUs to fall off in attendance and start to have the feel of a commuter school. It used to be the thing to do in town, to go to Fresno State games, and that was where the pride came from. I know I'm from the last days San Jose State had some of that (less). But Fresno draws townees like no other school in California. It no longer draws them like in the 90's, but that is part of an overall trend. It will take a generation, but UC Merced will replace Fresno state as the campus Valley kids prefer to go to. That is another corrosive you are not accounting for.

UC Davis is growing and has a massive endowment. It has the infrastructure and financial capacity to be a major athletic power. The campus has the room to expand to over 50,000 students, if the political climate of the UC regents ever lifts the cap on expansion -- the political pressure to keep the campuses University of Virginia sized, in order to maintain UCLA and UC Berkeley, is the biggest constraint to their growth (that and poor leadership). Looking at current athletic department competence, as you are doing, is not a good long term model to understand the school's potential.

I do think five or six Cal States can move into the R2 category like SDSU and can become true tier-2 schools with much more selective admission standards, like the State Us in other parts of the country. But this requires either a change in the CSU charter, or far better the splitting of the CSU system into two systems, in order to allow for mission differentiation. California politics, and the Californian worship of elitism behind that thinking are the the two road blocks. I don't see any force out there to remove those.

Just so you know, I went to Pomona College, had a father at Fresno and a mother and grandparents at USC. I have a sister from UCLA and another from Fresno and a wife who is a Washington Stare grad. So I'm far from a grew up and graduated from Bulldog. So I follow Fresno because I respected Pat Hill. We shall see what Tedford accomplishes.

I think you are ignoring a number of factors. One major factor is UC Davis has no path to FBS. It's not just Fresno that recruits the valley but also Reno, Boise State, San Jose State. None of those schools benefit from Davis going FBS. Had the WAC survived then maybe but the death of the WAC was the death of any Davis dream.

2nd Davis has not excelled in the sports where they are D1. They aren't a powerhouse in any sport. Even UOP which is in the same DMA has moved up to the clearly more competitive WCC and has competed for the national championship in Water Polo recently. Davis sent only two graduates to the Olympics. Not a very impressive showing.

As for changing the charter, I agree it will be a challenge. The UC's political will has blocked multiple attempts to the detriment of the valley. It needs to happen not because of sports but to address the economic development and lack of doctors in the valley. I see it happening one way or another in the next 10 years.
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(05-14-2017 06:36 PM)Sactowndog Wrote:  
(05-14-2017 11:46 AM)Stugray2 Wrote:  Sactowndog,

You are a Fresnik loyalist. I understand the rose colored glasses you look at your school with. It was the last of the CSUs to fall off in attendance and start to have the feel of a commuter school. It used to be the thing to do in town, to go to Fresno State games, and that was where the pride came from. I know I'm from the last days San Jose State had some of that (less). But Fresno draws townees like no other school in California. It no longer draws them like in the 90's, but that is part of an overall trend. It will take a generation, but UC Merced will replace Fresno state as the campus Valley kids prefer to go to. That is another corrosive you are not accounting for.

UC Davis is growing and has a massive endowment. It has the infrastructure and financial capacity to be a major athletic power. The campus has the room to expand to over 50,000 students, if the political climate of the UC regents ever lifts the cap on expansion -- the political pressure to keep the campuses University of Virginia sized, in order to maintain UCLA and UC Berkeley, is the biggest constraint to their growth (that and poor leadership). Looking at current athletic department competence, as you are doing, is not a good long term model to understand the school's potential.

I do think five or six Cal States can move into the R2 category like SDSU and can become true tier-2 schools with much more selective admission standards, like the State Us in other parts of the country. But this requires either a change in the CSU charter, or far better the splitting of the CSU system into two systems, in order to allow for mission differentiation. California politics, and the Californian worship of elitism behind that thinking are the the two road blocks. I don't see any force out there to remove those.

Just so you know, I went to Pomona College, had a father at Fresno and a mother and grandparents at USC. I have a sister from UCLA and another from Fresno and a wife who is a Washington Stare grad. So I'm far from a grew up and graduated from Bulldog. So I follow Fresno because I respected Pat Hill. We shall see what Tedford accomplishes.

I think you are ignoring a number of factors. One major factor is UC Davis has no path to FBS. It's not just Fresno that recruits the valley but also Reno, Boise State, San Jose State. None of those schools benefit from Davis going FBS. Had the WAC survived then maybe but the death of the WAC was the death of any Davis dream.

2nd Davis has not excelled in the sports where they are D1. They aren't a powerhouse in any sport. Even UOP which is in the same DMA has moved up to the clearly more competitive WCC and has competed for the national championship in Water Polo recently. Davis sent only two graduates to the Olympics. Not a very impressive showing.

As for changing the charter, I agree it will be a challenge. The UC's political will has blocked multiple attempts to the detriment of the valley. It needs to happen not because of sports but to address the economic development and lack of doctors in the valley. I see it happening one way or another in the next 10 years.

While Fresno State and others where still in the WAC? Cal-Davis, Sacramento State and Cal. Poly was asked to join, but turned down because of money issues. I do not think the WAC or MWC are blocking these schools because if the MWC gets raided? They have to look at the Big Sky schools to invite. Idaho should stay Independent for several more years. If Boise State gets an invite to a P5 conference? Idaho and Eastern Washington might get in. Portland State was also been in the talks to join the WAC as well along with Montana, Montana State and some others. So, I do not think there is any schools blocking those California schools from joining. It was Idaho that was being blocked from joining the MWC and New Mexico State.
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(05-14-2017 04:15 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  
(05-14-2017 12:45 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  
(05-14-2017 12:37 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  Carnegie is research rankings, not academics per se

Yeah, tier 4 is not really research. I know we added some technology research and do have a nursing program, and agriculture research for the farmers. We have been adding new degrees at the school in recent years. Before the research rankings came out last year? We were like tier 7. We are just one step away from getting the R3.

How much research dollars did Arkansas Tech get last year? Not trolling; I'm interested

Been searching online and found this instead.
http://asumag.com/new-construction/arkan...ts-complex

Sounds like they might be adding more sports for the school in the future.

Can't find the information. They usually get a lot of funding for a lot of things that U of A does not. Emergency Management is one. ROTC is there. Education for Law Enforcement officers. NASA grants been rewarded. So many. It is usually in a lot of money.
Quote:Master's Colleges and Universities[edit]
Master's Colleges and Universities are institutions that "awarded at least 50 master's degrees in 2013–14, but fewer than 20 doctorates." [5]

Master's Colleges and Universities: Larger programs (M1) are larger programs that awarded at least 200 masters-level degrees (393)

We are M1 level. Under 20 Doctorates for the university. We usually get the information in the news, but I did find this.

https://static.ark.org/eeuploads/adhe/ATU_FY17.pdf

Saw that over $20 million dollars for Pell Grants from the feds, but I think there are more for the science department and all that. There are funding coming in for NASA.

The state gives out the appropriations.

http://www.dfa.arkansas.gov/offices/budg...iation.pdf

Arkansas Tech gets $234,923,981 of federal and state funds. That is a lot for a D2 school. UCA only gets over $108 million. UAPB gets even less.

Arkansas
Little Rock
Arkansas State
Arkansas Tech
Those are the top 4 in getting the funds. With that kind of money, and all that? They should be up there with UCA and Little Rock at D1.
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Sactowndog,

I am speaking about the resources to be an FBS school. The MWC might consider them. But importantly they have the ability to make it to a P5 conference, the Pac-12 if they get to FBS, as a result of being a UC. They will skip over all CSU schools, and other pretenders out there.

But I'm looking more than 5 years down the road for UC Davis. A path may well open in the next decade. And I think even the MWC would consider them if an opening came up (say Colorado State is roped in by the rump of the Big 12 after OU and Texas leave). Once up in FBS it's more a matter of when than if a P12 invite will come.
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(05-14-2017 11:58 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  Sactowndog,

I am speaking about the resources to be an FBS school. The MWC might consider them. But importantly they have the ability to make it to a P5 conference, the Pac-12 if they get to FBS, as a result of being a UC. They will skip over all CSU schools, and other pretenders out there.

But I'm looking more than 5 years down the road for UC Davis. A path may well open in the next decade. And I think even the MWC would consider them if an opening came up (say Colorado State is roped in by the rump of the Big 12 after OU and Texas leave). Once up in FBS it's more a matter of when than if a P12 invite will come.

UC Davis has been fundraising for a 30 k stadium, but even that is not anywhere near ready for shovels. Anything bigger is much further out. When they went to DI, have to believe there was a plan to get higher in the DI levels, and that included building an FCS stadium that could be enlarged.
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(05-14-2017 05:51 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  I never realized to what degree the Cal St schools were forced to operate as commuter schools. So the state legislature won't let them have the dorms and infrastructures to provide traditional, on-campus experiences to California residents who either can't get into a UC or for personal reasons, like proximity to home would rather attend a Cal St.

In Ohio, Ohio State serves as our flagship and land grant. Miami has plenty of academic prestige and public ivy status but all of our other public schools with the exception of maybe Wright St are very much residential. There are a few smaller ones like Shawnee St who are primarily commuter based but they are NAIA and not NCAA D1.

You would think a state as large as California would have more public residential universities especially when unlike back east there isn't the vast number of private options we have in the Midwest and East Coast.

Many are commuter schools but certainly not all. They have dorms and not every kid is forced to commute but many do to save costs.
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(05-14-2017 11:58 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  Sactowndog,

I am speaking about the resources to be an FBS school. The MWC might consider them. But importantly they have the ability to make it to a P5 conference, the Pac-12 if they get to FBS, as a result of being a UC. They will skip over all CSU schools, and other pretenders out there.

But I'm looking more than 5 years down the road for UC Davis. A path may well open in the next decade. And I think even the MWC would consider them if an opening came up (say Colorado State is roped in by the rump of the Big 12 after OU and Texas leave). Once up in FBS it's more a matter of when than if a P12 invite will come.

And your quotes are exactly why the MWC will never consider them. Do you think the Fresno's, SDSU's, SJSU's, Reno's and Boise's want to enable a school that will "skip over the CSU's and all the other pretenders out there"? With the demolition of the WAC no other stepping stone conference exists. The only hope Davis has would be if the Big-12 took Fresno, SDSU and Boise. Maybe then Davis would have shot. Until then, those programs will step on Davis's throats just like the UC's step on the throat of the Cal States. Such is life in CA Higher Ed... Everybody hates everybody else.
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(05-15-2017 12:55 AM)Sactowndog Wrote:  
(05-14-2017 11:58 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  Sactowndog,

I am speaking about the resources to be an FBS school. The MWC might consider them. But importantly they have the ability to make it to a P5 conference, the Pac-12 if they get to FBS, as a result of being a UC. They will skip over all CSU schools, and other pretenders out there.

But I'm looking more than 5 years down the road for UC Davis. A path may well open in the next decade. And I think even the MWC would consider them if an opening came up (say Colorado State is roped in by the rump of the Big 12 after OU and Texas leave). Once up in FBS it's more a matter of when than if a P12 invite will come.

And your quotes are exactly why the MWC will never consider them. Do you think the Fresno's, SDSU's, SJSU's, Reno's and Boise's want to enable a school that will "skip over the CSU's and all the other pretenders out there"? With the demolition of the WAC no other stepping stone conference exists. The only hope Davis has would be if the Big-12 took Fresno, SDSU and Boise. Maybe then Davis would have shot. Until then, those programs will step on Davis's throats just like the UC's step on the throat of the Cal States. Such is life in CA Higher Ed... Everybody hates everybody else.


You did not read what I have said. While the Fresno, Boise and others were still in the WAC? The WAC tried so hard to get Sacramento State, Cal.-Davis and Cal. Poly to join. Fresno State, Boise State and San Diego State may not mind, but if any of those three were to join the MWC? One of those three would have gotten an invite over San Jose State.
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Sactowndog,

You are delusional in thinking the Big 12 will take those California schools. Actually the California schools would welcome UC Davis as a replacement for Colorado State going to the rump of the Big 12. Hawaii would also support them, and likely Nevada and New Mexico as flagships. Not sure about the rest of the league.

UC Davis however is not well led at the moment, lacking vision, not working on moving up. They could really use a guy like Bob Kustra.
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(05-15-2017 01:34 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  Sactowndog,

You are delusional in thinking the Big 12 will take those California schools. Actually the California schools would welcome UC Davis as a replacement for Colorado State going to the rump of the Big 12. Hawaii would also support them, and likely Nevada and New Mexico as flagships. Not sure about the rest of the league.

UC Davis however is not well led at the moment, lacking vision, not working on moving up. They could really use a guy like Bob Kustra.

I'm not saying it will happen, I'm saying it's the only way Davis has a chance in hell. You have lived in Ohio far too long if you think Boise, Reno, Fresno and SDSU would welcome Davis. I don't think you get the animosity towards Davis who has never done a single joint Doctoral degree with Fresno. They compete head to head in Ag programs instead of cooperating.

I can tell you went to SJSU because you know nothing of the Valley and who recruits Sac. Boise, Reno and Fresno all recruit Sac hard. They aren't creating a new competitor. Davis has no route out of the Big West and they know it.
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I have lived in California for 38 years now. I am one of the large number of Great Lakes white folks in Silicon Valley. At this point I have to confess I am more a Bear than Buckeye.

I can tell you all the CSUs would vote in favor. While Fresno fans might be against, the administration thinks much more along the same lines as San Jose and San Diego. UC schools recruit different players than a Cal State, due to their admission policies, they are not really much competition - the UCSD problem of getting past the BW UC ADs is not an obstacle here. They are an easy travel partner for SJSU and raise the stature academically of the MWC. The academic boost will definitely encourage the four flagships to also vote for them.

I agree, Boise State, which is not from any part of California that I am aware of, may well have a different opinion. But then again the competition for that replacement spot of losing Colorado State is most likely Rice, another academic jewel. Boise would not be thrilled from a competition stand point with them either. (That is another school with a potential Pac-12 path).

Again we are talking close to a decade out, and under new management for UC Davis. Management that is very likely not going to materialize in time to take advantage of the opportunity. So this is probably something which would never get put to the test. Personally I'd love to have a UC in the MWC, as that would heat up the California rivalries.
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RE: Why doesn't Sacramento St enjoy FBS level support?
(05-15-2017 10:52 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  I have lived in California for 38 years now. I am one of the large number of Great Lakes white folks in Silicon Valley. At this point I have to confess I am more a Bear than Buckeye.

I can tell you all the CSUs would vote in favor. While Fresno fans might be against, the administration thinks much more along the same lines as San Jose and San Diego. UC schools recruit different players than a Cal State, due to their admission policies, they are not really much competition - the UCSD problem of getting past the BW UC ADs is not an obstacle here. They are an easy travel partner for SJSU and raise the stature academically of the MWC. The academic boost will definitely encourage the four flagships to also vote for them.

I agree, Boise State, which is not from any part of California that I am aware of, may well have a different opinion. But then again the competition for that replacement spot of losing Colorado State is most likely Rice, another academic jewel. Boise would not be thrilled from a competition stand point with them either. (That is another school with a potential Pac-12 path).

Again we are talking close to a decade out, and under new management for UC Davis. Management that is very likely not going to materialize in time to take advantage of the opportunity. So this is probably something which would never get put to the test. Personally I'd love to have a UC in the MWC, as that would heat up the California rivalries.

I think your nuts and if you went to the MWC board, I doubt you would find a single fan that agrees with you. The MWC might invite Rice and would certainly invite any number of Texas CUSA schools before inviting Davis. The fact your a Silicon Valley Cal fan just speaks to how little you know the Valley. My guess is the most you know about the valley is the traffic on 80 driving to Reno.

But since your a Cal fan I will make you a sig bet. We will create a poll on the MWC board about losing CSU and with whom do we replace them with: Choices will be
Rice
UTEP
UTSA
Texas State
Montana
Sacramento State
North Texas
UC Davis.

If UC Davis is in the top 4 you win. If not I win and your sig will read:
Cal: 5th best in everything in California.

Deal?
05-15-2017 11:57 PM
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RE: Why doesn't Sacramento St enjoy FBS level support?
(05-15-2017 10:52 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  I have lived in California for 38 years now. I am one of the large number of Great Lakes white folks in Silicon Valley. At this point I have to confess I am more a Bear than Buckeye.

I can tell you all the CSUs would vote in favor. While Fresno fans might be against, the administration thinks much more along the same lines as San Jose and San Diego. UC schools recruit different players than a Cal State, due to their admission policies, they are not really much competition - the UCSD problem of getting past the BW UC ADs is not an obstacle here. They are an easy travel partner for SJSU and raise the stature academically of the MWC. The academic boost will definitely encourage the four flagships to also vote for them.

I agree, Boise State, which is not from any part of California that I am aware of, may well have a different opinion. But then again the competition for that replacement spot of losing Colorado State is most likely Rice, another academic jewel. Boise would not be thrilled from a competition stand point with them either. (That is another school with a potential Pac-12 path).

Again we are talking close to a decade out, and under new management for UC Davis. Management that is very likely not going to materialize in time to take advantage of the opportunity. So this is probably something which would never get put to the test. Personally I'd love to have a UC in the MWC, as that would heat up the California rivalries.

One other thing my kids both competed D1 and the thought the FBS UC's recruit superior students is BS. They both recruit anyone that can qualify and help their team. I saw some kids dumber than a bag of rocks get recruited to those schools.
05-16-2017 12:02 AM
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