(01-15-2021 12:12 PM)dbackjon Wrote:  

(01-14-2021 09:46 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  

(01-14-2021 07:10 PM)SDHornet Wrote:  

(01-14-2021 06:27 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  ...

I wonder if Sac State will be retained as an affiliate in baseball. They make the West unbalanced with 7 teams (SUU doesn't sponsor). There is no crossover, so it doesn't much matter except for scheduling -- it's not that uncommon to have unbalanced divisions in baseball with different number of games for each.

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Unless Hornet baseball gets a BW invite, I don't see why the WAC wouldn't retain us.

Usually when a conference doesn't need affiliates they don't renew their contracts. Why give an affiliate a shot at the WAC auto berth to the CWS?

It's also administratively easier not to deal with affiliates. Men's soccer probably keeps them -- they have six in house, but safety in numbers-- and for Swimming and Diving it's just a conference meet, so doesn't matter. But Baseball is more involved since it's a full schedule. Sac makes them an odd number which means somebody is idle every week.

I think it's 50-50 they renew the contract

It's also bad business to bite the hand that helped keep your auto-bid in a sport when your numbers were struggling.

You never know when you would need another baseball team again.