[BillBradley]

Every school in the WCC has a religious affiliation. I don’t see that working culturally.

I thought Pacific might be the exception but Wikipedia says they are Methodist. So you're right.  The others are all Catholic except for Pepperdine, whose affiliation is with the Church of Christ.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Conference

I don't think Stanford fits in a church league.

Crap. I knew there were a lot of Catholic schools in the league, but I thought it was more of a "private school" conference vs. a religious school conference. They probably wouldn't even invite us.

This really stinks. Stanford has enjoyed so much national success in many of the non-football sports and I loved so much of it as a fan - watching our baseball team in the CWS, our women's volleyball team win the natty 3 out of 4 years, of course our women's hoops team that has been great for a long, long time. If we join the MWC, kiss all of that goodbye. Few top recruits will want to come to Stanford and play the MWC schools when they could instead go to great schools in the Power 4 conferences (and get a bunch of NIL money too). 

We have to get into the B10. Do whatever it takes.

[BillBradley]

Every school in the WCC has a religious affiliation. I don’t see that working culturally.

I thought Pacific might be the exception but Wikipedia says they are Methodist. So you're right.  The others are all Catholic except for Pepperdine, whose affiliation is with the Church of Christ.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Conference

I don't think Stanford fits in a church league.

Crap. I knew there were a lot of Catholic schools in the league, but I thought it was more of a "private school" conference vs. a religious school conference. They probably wouldn't even invite us.

This really stinks. Stanford has enjoyed so much national success in many of the non-football sports and I loved so much of it as a fan - watching our baseball team in the CWS, our women's volleyball team win the natty 3 out of 4 years, of course our women's hoops team that has been great for a long, long time. If we join the MWC, kiss all of that goodbye. Few top recruits will want to come to Stanford and play the MWC schools when they could instead go to great schools in the Power 4 conferences (and get a bunch of NIL money too). 

We have to get into the B10. Do whatever it takes.