club in a sport is more defensible when like no one in the state offers the sport. otherwise, if there are 30 varsity programs down the road, and the school is fairly average, why that school and not the other 30 that bother to back and fund varsity programs. and i am probably far understating how many TF options CA offers across the divisions.
only other reason to go club, besides the school being perfect, is the school tells you NCAA is imminent. ok, i wait out a year and maybe even exercise a 5th year of eligibility. this is going the opposite direction. you're someone waving a budget pen around from no team at all. and you have to know they didn't want any team to exist.
why would you do varsity level training and effort to get handed back club resources that they might even ask you to contribute financially for.