(11-28-2017 07:32 PM)dancingNMSUaggie Wrote: CP. I wouldn't make it up just to piss off Clarity. It's funny cause when I did a poll with Sun Belt fans and almost all of them wanted NMSU to have a full invite yet the administrators (Benson) did the exact opposite. Bakersfield gets in invite and the Big West fan base hates them. I don't get it.
Well, that's a complicated deal.
Obviously, it's a small and vocal sampling. Especially that board. Those guys have been there forever. Very little turnover on that board.
Lots of factions. The old big west, with their abandonment issues, and the newer members. The UCs, and the CSUs. Ironically Poly kind of falls in the middle of all those groups. Then of course you've got Poly and Davis which play football, and the old big west fans that hate football because it made all the top members leave. The Argentine cowboys and the Niners are traditionally the best basketball programs.
The mod on that board, GauchoDan is a class guy. Does a great job.
Bako is bako. In the California dictionary if you look up "the sticks" it says see Bako. I'm from Visalia, which is halfway between Fresno and Bakersfield. Not specifically on that board, I'm talking in general now. Coastal CA is wealthy, blue, and urban, and inland CA is blue collar, red, and rural. So you'll see a lot of that reflected in that boards attitude toward Bakersfield. Davis is Sac, which is inland, but not really rural, it also is the 3rd best public university in a state that takes enormous pride in its higher education system. You see that reflected on the board, most posters don't go after Davis, while they will take cheap shots at CSUN.
But you're right, they mostly all hate Bako, which to be honest, is partly fear based. They don't want their school getting whipped by Cal State Bakersfield of all places.
The Big West is an alumni and student league, not a community league. (Exclude Hawaii from everything I'm saying because they are the anamoly). It's why I don't think it's a good fit for CSUB. The goal there is to be a community team, ie, the "pro" team of Bakersfield, like State is to Fresno.