(07-16-2019 12:45 PM)Hilldog Wrote:  Because Sac St. has done so well for the Big Sky? How many Big Sky Championships have they won in all sports?

I get everybody is just giving opinions here. But, ideas or theories we post may not be the way conferences are thinking! Everybody on this board said D2 schools with football aren't being looked at as candidates for WAC expansion. Then Dixie St. a D2 program with football is invited! The WAC is in survival mode. They won't discount any school looking to move up or move from a D1 conference-I agree that there are very few if any schools looking to move to the WAC from other D1 conferences.

I remember the talk that the Big West doesn't want Bakersfield, yet Bakersfield got an invitation. While I'm not saying Sac St will go to the Big West next year, or in five years. At some point a CA school will have to look at finances and decide that playing in a conference where almost all conference members are in CA, is a better option than being the only CA school in a conference!

I think CSUB was added to keep a balance between UC schools and Cal State schools in the Big West. Adding Sac State would throw things out of balance in the Big West, so that probably will not happen.

Sac State would need to get the permission of the Big Sky to move Olympic sports to another conference while keeping football in the Big Sky. If they got it, I think the WAC would be the right choice for them, once they built a new arena. As long as the WAC can keep their current membership, the WAC would be a better basketball conference than the Big West and a nice fit for a Sac State basketball program with a new arena.