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The Big West has evolved with Davis,Hawaii, and UCSD now leaving.

I've always thought adding schools that are solidly behind atletics is a good idea for long term viability, and that solely being in California with callups from D2 was not a long term solution, or at least not if schools were allowed to not fully fund athletics.

I know money is an issue and NIL changed everything, but from a membership stand point, curious where everyone stands opinion wise?

A few thoughts on some of the names being thrown around:
-Denver: culturally more like west coast than their Summit brethren, travel partner for Utah Valley. Rumors WCC is going after them hard.
-UTA: Huge metro area/uni, much like LB way down the totem pole in the market, less history. I think they would definitely accept, but not super excited. Easy travel.
-Oral Roberts- With UTA as option, thought I'd include them as they had a pedigree in basketball, were flagship of the Summit. Rough few years though.
-Portland State: logistically makes sense, football can't last there. But when they get rid of football, will they do anything with other sports? Worst all around program in the Big Sky (Sac State last few years was right above them since 2020, but had been avg before that)
-UTA&M-Corpus Cristi- not much going on here
-UNewOrleans- Nice market/uni, terrible athletics