(04-08-2018 02:21 AM)McKinney Wrote:  Comparing a given state's percentage of the nation's D1 programs to their percentage of the nation's population:

These five have too many:
Louisiana
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Tennessee

These five have too few:
California
Florida
Texas
Minnesota
Georgia

These five are closest to their "fair share":
West Virginia
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Oklahoma
New Mexico

If California wanted to add enough D1 schools to meet the national average it would have to add another 11 to the current 24. UCSD and Cal Baptist are moving up soon, so that's already 2 out of the needed 11. Here are the ones I would move up from the D2 ranks, in descending order by enrollment.

University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
San Francisco State University (SFSU)
California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA)
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona)
California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB)
University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)†
California State University, Chico (Chico State)
California State University, East Bay (CSU East Bay)
California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH)
California State University San Marcos (CSUSM)
California Baptist University (Cal Baptist)

9 of those schools are currently in the CCAA. They would leave behind 4 schools that would have to hope the Pacific West Conference took them in.

† I realize UCSC is in D3, but they really should join the rest of the UC schools in D1 someday. It won't happen, but it should.