Mark Zeigler reports that UCSD only received four or five votes and the Cal States appeared to have all voted no as a bloc.

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/spor...story.html

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The Big West is currently stable, and there are some who believe UCSD — despite all its academic prowess — doesn’t offer enough commercial “opportunity” given its low profile in the San Diego market.

The Big West might be holding out for the school that does, San Diego State, if it ever finds a football-only conference that offers more financial return than the Mountain West. That would push the Aztecs’ other sports to the Big West, which was the plan before SDSU’s 2013 move to the Big East in football collapsed.

Others talk about shedding the reputation of being the conference where Div. IIs become Div. I.

And a lesson UCSD won't forget.

The approach of gaining student and faculty support, then submitting an application to the Big West, then saying “Here we are, let us in,” clearly didn’t work.