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Men's rowing, women's lightweight rowing.

I posted about this earlier: https://thecardboard.org/board/showthrea...#pid396512

The M/W fencing teams and field hockey team will get a Power 5 conference affiliation for the first time.  Beach volleyball and men's rowing need to figure out their conference affiliations since the ACC doesn't sponsor either (but the Pac-12 does).  All other sports should see no change in their P5/non-P5 status.

There's some strong west coast D1 rowing programs, including UC Berkeley, UWash, UC-San Diego, UC Irvine, Santa Clara U, Gonzaga, U of San Diego, Loyola Marymount, Oregon State, etc.

Other option would be to formally join the Ivies. Current D1 rankings are Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Penn, Columbia as the Power Five/Top Five. UC Berkeley is #6, then Brown and Dartmouth.

Stanford would never be invited to the EARC (Ivy-plus rowing conference).  They all have their established dual meet cups dating back a hundred years...and Stanford is not flying out every other weekend for a couple of races.

kal (Berkeley) is the defending national champion, and Washington + Oregon State round out the four Pac-12 men's varsity rowing programs.  Most of the west coast programs you listed belong to the Western Sprints conference, which sends their conference champion as their automatic qualifier to the IRA championship.  Every Pac-12 program is faster than the fastest Western Sprints school, so I doubt any invites will be extended.  UC-Irvine is a club program.  

Anyway, all four Pac-12 men's rowing programs are homeless.  I think the MPSF could be asked to host a four-team regatta.  Historically, the winner of the Pac-12 championship was an automatic qualifier to the IRA championship, and all three remaining Pac-12 programs would usually be given at-large bids to the IRA championship as well.  The programs are fairly important to the landscape of men's collegiate rowing.

[fullmetal]

Men's rowing, women's lightweight rowing.

I posted about this earlier: https://thecardboard.org/board/showthrea...#pid396512

The M/W fencing teams and field hockey team will get a Power 5 conference affiliation for the first time.  Beach volleyball and men's rowing need to figure out their conference affiliations since the ACC doesn't sponsor either (but the Pac-12 does).  All other sports should see no change in their P5/non-P5 status.

There's some strong west coast D1 rowing programs, including UC Berkeley, UWash, UC-San Diego, UC Irvine, Santa Clara U, Gonzaga, U of San Diego, Loyola Marymount, Oregon State, etc.

Other option would be to formally join the Ivies. Current D1 rankings are Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Penn, Columbia as the Power Five/Top Five. UC Berkeley is #6, then Brown and Dartmouth.

Stanford would never be invited to the EARC (Ivy-plus rowing conference).  They all have their established dual meet cups dating back a hundred years...and Stanford is not flying out every other weekend for a couple of races.

kal (Berkeley) is the defending national champion, and Washington + Oregon State round out the four Pac-12 men's varsity rowing programs.  Most of the west coast programs you listed belong to the Western Sprints conference, which sends their conference champion as their automatic qualifier to the IRA championship.  Every Pac-12 program is faster than the fastest Western Sprints school, so I doubt any invites will be extended.  UC-Irvine is a club program.  

Anyway, all four Pac-12 men's rowing programs are homeless.  I think the MPSF could be asked to host a four-team regatta.  Historically, the winner of the Pac-12 championship was an automatic qualifier to the IRA championship, and all three remaining Pac-12 programs would usually be given at-large bids to the IRA championship as well.  The programs are fairly important to the landscape of men's collegiate rowing.