Drummer
Better Red than Dead
OUA will NEVER get 4 slots. That was settled when Lakehead hosted in 2009. There was no wildcard OUA team because OUA were hosting and Lakehead lost in the OUA(W) Division semi finals. In 2010 Lakehead was a Queens Cup finalist so there was a wildcard team. Again keeping the OUA at 3 teams max.
That was the previous 6-team format and USPORTs introduced the non-host conference Wild-Card rule as a result. 2009 was the first year it was imposed. In 2009, Lakehead was the host along with two other OUA teams (McGill and Western). The OUA was also suppose to get the static rotational Wild-card this year as well which would have made it four(4) OUA teams. To void this, and any other host conference bias issues - the Wild-card rotation was 'jigged', prior to the season, to only offer the Wild-card to other conferences while maintaining the rotation.
Regardless of what is in the USPORTS rules, which are not well written, they can certainly have four teams in the current 8-team format if a team from the OUA hosts. I have no problem with it and you could argue it could be the best balanced conference approach (CWx2, AUSx2, OUA-Eastx2 & OUA-Westx2) depending on the host, but possible.