Right on with Seattle. I wonder if the addition of Seattle would help their next TV contract.

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That's when Gonzaga threatens to leave. If they're going to be in a 10-teamer, may as well be the WAC. The rest of the conference will not leak in those Wheaties. Pacific and Seattle do not (for now) trump Gonzaga.

If soccer becomes a huge moneymaker for the conference (as opposed to moderately OK), then the WCC could send Gonzaga off. Not likely, just about the only way I can envision a turn in this tale.

Wire story out of Utah discussing USU Athletic Department's "financial crisis" and the upcoming student athletic fee increase vote.Link at http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story. ... enu554_2_3

Pounder if the WAC stays how it is or expands it will probably be with a school that has football, they can't afford a non-fb school if the MWC raids them. Even if the commish says different. Also the Big Sky has a rule that you must have football. So if Gonzaga says we'll leave I'd say, go then. Have fun in the Big West, which Gonzaga won't join even if the WCC expanded.

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Article reporting that the USU students voted to increase their athletic fees.This should help USU to stay in the WAC.Link at http://www.standard.net/live/news/167947

Who's to say the MWC wouldn't take Gonzaga if they threatened to leave? That would DEFINITELY up their profile even more.

They'd take Boise St. over Gonzaga. Gonzaga does nothing to help give them a BCS birth.

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He may be pretty danged smart... I'll certainly give him his credit if it turns out he has discovered the expansion canddidate and not just some guy's typo.

Scout.com has gone a little flaky...If you didn't get a chance to see it, here is what was posted:

"When the NABC came out with there all district team I went to see how the districts came out to be. If you scroll to the bottom of the page you see who will be added to the WAC as soon as next year: Utah valley.

http://nabc.cstv.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s ... ctRealignm

btw I don't know why it says that, I hope it a misprint cause the team is rated by sagarin 194, same as the bottom tier of the conference.It would not benefit the conference. "

NABC = National Association of Basketball Coaches

I am warming on the possibility of Seattle. It is more convenient than say Denver while bringing in similar TV impact --- Denver is the 18th DMA, seattle is the 14th DMA. Seattle lost the Supersonics, so there are a lot of trained basketball game attendees out there for grab and it isn't in an NBA killzone like Denver. I think this could very well be the school the WAC is considering. It screams short term add --- before the NBA puts another team in Seattle. It would work very well for Seattle, allowing them to really push their team to present it to the WCC.

That would also make a lot of sense why Seattle has put off accepting GW membership.

I am posting in the wikipedia WAC MAP to help people envision travel partners.




based off the conference bb schedules the current travel partners appear to be:
NMSU/LA Tech
SJSU/UH
UI/BSU
with the last three in flux a good bit.

Now if you added Seattle it could be:
NMSU/LA Tech
SJSU/UH
USU/BSU
FS/UNR
UI/Seattle

Gonzaga increases the tourney credits for the Mountain West. That's a more likely money-raiser than hanging for BCS. BTW, it's still not likely until the MWC can unhinge themselves from their current TV contract.

Boise State doesn't guarantee the MWC a BCS berth. USC does, but USC already has the schools they want on their coattails. (Obvioulsy, I'm ignoring the ridiculous nature of the argument at this point) What guarantees the MWC a berth is probably a localized nuclear conflict, or maybe the discovery of a massive oil deposit under the Great Salt Lake. Money talks, otherwise the BCS will continue to shift the boundaries to protect what the big schools want protected.

Articles out of Reno discussing financial problems for Nevada and other WAC school athletic departments at http://www.rgj.com/article/20090419/NEWS/904190346/1321

and at http://www.rgj.com/article/20090419/NEWS/904190359/1321

MWC MB thread discussing current state of WAC schools athletic department budgets at http://www.mwcboard.com/www/forums/inde ... opic=17848

I really wish things were different with Northern Arizona, Montana, and Montana St. The WAC would have a nice regional format with:

Montana
Montana St.
Idaho
Boise St.
Utah St.
Northern Arizona
Nevada
Fresno St.
San Jose St.
Hawaii

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The WAC should add UC Davis, Sacramento State, and Portland State as soon as they are ready to move to FBS. The Mountain West would likely come after Boise State, Fresno State, and Houston, who Louisiana Tech would replace in Conference USA.

Mountain West
Western - San Diego State, UNLV, Boise State, Utah, BYU, Fresno State
Mountain - TCU, Houston, Wyoming, Air Force, Colorado State, New Mexico

WAC
San Jose State/Nevada
Sacramento State/UC Davis
Portland State/Idaho
Utah State/New Mexico State
Hawaii

Long term, replace New Mexico State with Southern Utah (or Northern Arizona), or work on getting some more schools.

WBYeager,thanks for the post.

WAC MB thread discussing column out of Fresno calling for the Bulldogs to jump from the sinking WAC ship at http://forums.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=451&f=2368&t=5157343