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RE: Report: UCSD Finally Gets Big West Invite
(02-16-2018 08:20 PM)teamvsn Wrote:  
(02-16-2018 02:00 PM)GiveEmTheAxe Wrote:  Is there any reason to believe that SDSU, SJSU and Fresno State embrace the same sort of CSU solidarity that the Big West CSUs do? It's not like the MWC is balancing UC vs CSU power blocks at the moment.

Doubtful. I only know Fresno State well, but as far as the Bulldogs go they like having in-state rivals in San Jose and San Diego because fans can easily travel to them. But their primary focus is not on other Cal State schools, but looking at whoever is above them in the polls. Not only MW rivals like Boise, but other mid majors and P5 teams they might be able to schedule games with.

Pretty similar at SJSU. It just been 5 years since we had a 10 win team to matter. May be another couple years before we have one again.

But yes we see ourselves beyond the California pale. SDSU definitely does. Our big rival is the CSU charter and the restrictions that do not allow the school to exploit it's position in Silicon Valley and up our standards. It's absurd. If the CSU system gave us the freedom, we could easily become a $Billion endowment campus given all the Industry here. But the CSU system doesn't want us to build differentiation between us and lesser CSU campuses like Cal State East Bay. We had a President who started pushing that direction and the CSU honchos came under huge fire from the UC honchos and we were forced to part with him, for a much less aggressive President. We have the potential to blow past SDSU (location, location, location). If we build the campus, the athletics will follow. But we lack the leadership ... by design. UC Davis has a similar issue. That is California higher education politics in a nutshell.
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