Re: Conference changes and impact on college baseball

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:58:48 -0500, Rick R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>"Boyd Nation" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> That's all that I'm aware of, and, as usual, you're ahead of me on this.
>> There are still some open negotiations, with TCU being courted by the
>> Mountain West as the most notorious.

>   I'd have thought the rumors about Fresno State leaving the WAC were
>   almost as bad.  I personally thought that when Rice, Tulsa, and SMU
>   joined Conference USA, it almost eliminated the possibility of TCU
>jumping
>   ship (although the rumor does still persist, so there must be something
>there,
>   I guess).

I think the TCU thing is mostly football-driven, although it would kill
their budgets in other sports.  Where would Fresno go?

>   Other than those two, the only rumors I have heard relate to Cal State
>Sacramento,
>   and then a new football-only conference that would involve Southern Utah,
>   St. Mary's, and some of the schools moving up from Division II.  Are
>there
>   other schools being bandied about that play baseball ?

There's apparently a good deal of discussion at the other UC and Cal State
schools to try and move up (which could be interesting, since CS-Hayward,
CS-Dominguez Hills, and CSLA could all be competitive fairly quickly).  This
has the potential to iron out a lot of the RPI's inherent problems.

There's also the indeterminate state of the United States Baseball 
Conference (http://www.theuscaa.com/usbc/usbc.htm), which I notice is
now listing Northern Colorado as a member.

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