With BYU going independent in football and joining the WCC in other sports, in baseball how will it affect the WCC? Who are the traditionally strong teams in the conference? How strong of a conference is it?
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Pretty tough conference behind Pac10 and Big West. Also a notch below ACC/SEC but is up there with anyone below those mentioned.
Last years standings.
WCC Baseball Standings
Team WCC PCT Overall
#15 San Diego 19-2 .905 37-22
Portland 14-7 .667 34-18
Pepperdine 12-9 .571 24-30
San Francisco 10-11 .476 28-28
Santa Clara 8-13 .381 23-31
Saint Mary's 8-13 .381 19-32-1
Gonzaga 8-13 .381 20-36
LMU 5-16 .238 23-33
Last years standings.
WCC Baseball Standings
Team WCC PCT Overall
#15 San Diego 19-2 .905 37-22
Portland 14-7 .667 34-18
Pepperdine 12-9 .571 24-30
San Francisco 10-11 .476 28-28
Santa Clara 8-13 .381 23-31
Saint Mary's 8-13 .381 19-32-1
Gonzaga 8-13 .381 20-36
LMU 5-16 .238 23-33
What is interesting is WCC has developed into a small private school league (3-9,000) students where BYU has about 34,000, as well as, has DI football as a source of revenue that the other schools (other than USD-DIAA) don't have.
May put other WCC schools at a disadvantage resouce wise.
May put other WCC schools at a disadvantage resouce wise.
Maybe but the talent pool for the California schools is immense. Of course you have the Mormon connection for California kids. I don’t really know but how strong has the BYU baseball program been? Seem like a good fit at first glance.
BYU are around San Diego St level, some years better, some just behind them in the MWC.
Glad to see BYU make the move... I think baseball will be a push in the WCC. Not sure what effect 20-21 year old freshman will have on other sports, but in football it's quite an advantage.
Funny how times have changed. It used to be that 2 years of no working out and getting rusty was a disadvantage. Now not so much.
There's all types of mission's