(05-20-2020 09:57 PM)AZcats Wrote:  

(05-20-2020 07:55 PM)jdgaucho Wrote:  Probably not. The CSUs are hard headed.

I can see that; especially after how they handled Humboldt football.

Nah, not so much about that. From the birth of the Big West in 1969 - Stu's SJSU Spartans were a charter member - to 2003, the Cal State's outnumbered the UCs. When UC Davis was admitted it marked the first time there was an equal balance.

The Cal State's were excited to get SDSU in 2012 (another former charter member) which would have tilted the scales back in their favor. But when that collapsed the Cal State's later raised a stink about UC San Diego. They couldn't let the UCs tip the scale in their favor. Hence the Bakersfield Birds were packaged with UC San Diego which maintained an equal balance. Down the road the CSUs will pay for that hardheadedness.

Incidentally, Covid-19 is highlighting a major drawback of having 10 members in one state, equally divided between two separate systems. If the UCs and Hawaii are willing to play sports and the Cal State's not, the Big West would be down to six teams and either needing a waiver from the NCAA or having to find another temporary member from outside California and Hawaii.