With UCSD & UCSB joining the WCC 7/1/27, the 2027 season will be the last in the current conference structure as the BWC and GCC will fall under 6 teams each with the creation a new WCC conference.
WCC (6-8?) = LMU, UOP, SMC, SCU, UCSD, UCSB
BWC (4-6?) = CBU, CSUF, CSUN, Haw, LB, UCI
GCC (4) = FS, SDSU, SJSU, Davis
Some questions:
Will the new WCC be eligible for NCAAs or will they have to sit out for 2 years?
Will UCI stay in the Big West as the only remaining UC? (sorry UC Riverside)
Will CBU stay in the Big West now that the affluent core has fled?
If the GCC remaining teams join the BWC, will UC Davis be welcomed too?
Are any other schools looking to change conferences? Indiana? Michigan? Wagner?
I had not heard that LMU is moving conferences. Is that new news?
And, I thought SJSU and UC Davis would be joining GCC?
And SMC is joining the GCC for this coming season, so is the plan to move again to WCC after one year?
WCC has men’s polo, have to think they’ll have women’s polo too, especially since they have the requisite 6 members to support a conference
Rational
In relation to the list you posted above. Where did you see that LMU and UOP women’s teams, are leaving the GCC, and also that SMC womens will only spend one year in the GCC?
We have knows about Davis and SJSU coming to the GCC and CBU leaving, but nothing about those others leaving, in women’s at least
Agreed with what everyone else has said!
SMC, UC Davis, and San Jose are all participating in the GCC. What the real question is going to be is how long will that conference last once UCSD and UCSB become WCC members?
I believe this has been posted to a previous thread, but the working talking points were on how the WCC occurred (Big West in Men’s Water Polo was sanctioned), and in that press release about of credit went to UOP’s administration.
I’m willing to bet James Graham is cooking something up but it won’t likely hold ground until after San Diego and Santa Barbara leave the BW