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Posted by LBhoops
on 9/15/2023, 10:20 pm, in reply to "D1 Ticker on west coast talk between WCC and WAC"
With 10 teams leaving the PAC 12 something has to happen for the western schools. It should get interesting as to what the WCC and WAC will do. 
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Extra Points publisher Matt Brown reports the “rapid deterioration of the Pac-12, along with the challenges in scheduling (particularly for Olympic sports), have led some campus-based leaders [in the West Coast Conference] to push for the league to be a bit more aggressive” with expansion.” Brown adds there has been mutual interest between the WCC and Grand Canyon but so far the Lopes don’t have the seven votes necessary to secure an invite. “For what it’s worth, virtually every single person I’ve talked to has identified [San Francisco] as the swing vote.” However, Brown believes it’s not a given that GCU would accept an invite because “there is a possibility that whatever configuration the Mountain West + Oregon State + [Washington State] takes…there’s a chance that league could also seek to add non-football members, such as Grand Canyon, Gonzaga, or other members of the WCC or WAC.”