07-31-2023, 11:52 AM
Just a side note, but when people imagine the dire consequences of not keeping up with the Joneses, I'm not sure it's useful to say that we'd be Ivy League or D3. At least not if they mean it literally.
There's no indication that the Ivy League will ever invite us or any new members to their club.
And the D3 landscape in NorCal is so barren that UC Santa Cruz has to play their sports in something called the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, with their closest conference-mate in Milwaukee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_to_C...Conference
So it'd be either that for us, or convincing the SCIAC bus league to add us as an outpost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_C...Conference
No I think our floor (and Cal's, for that matter,) has to still be in D1.
There's no indication that the Ivy League will ever invite us or any new members to their club.
And the D3 landscape in NorCal is so barren that UC Santa Cruz has to play their sports in something called the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, with their closest conference-mate in Milwaukee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_to_C...Conference
So it'd be either that for us, or convincing the SCIAC bus league to add us as an outpost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_C...Conference
No I think our floor (and Cal's, for that matter,) has to still be in D1.

