From the MWC board


UTEP's press release about the five new C-USA schools.

"Conference USA has added five outstanding institutions," said UTEP Director of Athletics Bob Stull. "This is a great move to increase the stability of our league. We are particularly excited about the additions of North Texas and UT San Antonio. C-USA will continue to have a footprint state-wide and our alumni in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio will have the opportunity to watch our teams play. In today's ever-changing college landscape, Conference USA is proactively seeking opportunities to grow, including engaging in continued discussions with the Mountain West Conference."

Conference USA and the Mountain West will continue to discuss a future affiliation that could begin as early as 2013. Both Conferences agreed that adding membership at this time was important and have carefully coordinated new membership plans. Additional expansion remains a possibility."


CUSA and MWC have carefully coordinated new membership plans

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Congrats to my Frienemy SJSUfan2010, for his Spartans joining in the MWC yesterday.

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Thank you sir. I just hope you guys don't jump ship as soon as we come aboard. At the very least the rivalry is scheduled to resume again in 2014 no matter what, but hopefully now we'll have 2013 as well.

If the WAC lives w/ BSU or AFA is happy in the Summit they'll go to the BE.

I don't know what route the BE would go if Louisville ever ends up in B12 and if it would be w/ BYU or alone or the B12 settles for Cincy, Rutgers

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Article out of Reno with comments from Nevada AD and MWC Commish regarding possibility of BSU and SDSU returning to the MWC at http://www.rgj.com/article/20120506/SPO ... 60082/1018

Article out of Boise talking about discussing where all-sports instead of football could go and if Boise could be heading back to the Mountain West.

http://www.kivitv.com/news/topfive/150386415.html

Suppose Boise St. gets into the BW for its Oly sports, and decides to follow through with this God-awful Big East football-only arrangement, and SDSU follows suit.

Would the MWC offer Idaho and NMSU a defined-term several-year contract to be a MWC football-only member, which would get them to 12 FB members and a CCG ?
(I'm envisioning an agreement that could be terminated after [say 3 years] by the MWC if the MWC were to have better options at that time in the future).

Perhaps this could be MWC's fall-back position.
As long as Boise / SDSU are still in play, the MWC would officially express "no interest" in Idaho and NMSU.....


Right now, MWC, Sun-Belt, and Big XII are only conferneces that haven't planned to get to 12 football mmebers, and Sun-Belt and Big XII are seriously considering it.
I picture MWC and CUSA wanting to each have a CCG on some Saturday before Christmas, and then set the winners up to face each other in a semi-major Bowl game
as close as possible to New Year's Day.

all depends on the CUSA alliance issues.

They've got 24 schools right now, so that's a factor. For all we know, they have some sort of plan IF the alliance works out, that would send UTEP and say UTSA to the MWC with Rice and UNT in CUSA.

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That's a possibility, but it would have to wait until AFTER UNC-Charlotte and ODU are geared up for FBS football (supposedly in 2015).

yes, but it's when not if: both will have CUSA FB. If the MWC does anything that means 26 schools. 13/13 less ideal


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CBSSports blog article with comments from MWC Commish regarding the future of his league at http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootbal ... nce-future

See above post...

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootbal ... t-millions

If I'm the MWC, I would pay the whole 5 mill to the Big East and welcome Boise back.

http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/ ... w-from-mwc

Andrea also thinks that this Saturday June 30th is decision day for Boise State.
Either they forge ahead with BE commitment (and Oly sports will at least temporarily be in the depleted WAC), or they do some re-trenching.

Their decision would be helped by knowledge of whether or not they will get invitation to Big West,
and whether or not MWC will get a "temporary AQ to BCS for 2012 / 2013" before all AQ's are scheduled to go away (word on this could possibly come this Tuesday,
but that may be overly optimistic.

The BE will likely continue to maintain their own AQ through 2013, however that only helps BSU in 2013, since they are in MWC FB for 2012.

We'll likely know in a few days what's up with Boise St.

But I must say, based on the playoff developments, I'm starting to think the MWC might be a better option. If the criteria for getting in the playoff is being in the Top 4 of some kind, with a committee selection, one has to think that winning the MWC, which might be easier, and finishing undefeated, would be more probable than doing so in the Big East. Boise St. has less travel in the MWC for football, so travel won't take it's toll as much. The MWC, if it kept Boise St. and SDSU could even have a championship game, making it harder, but giving Boise St. that extra game to beat a higher ranked school for SOS purposes.

The benefits of the Big East are known...a higher valued TV contract. And rightly so due to the region and the BE brand.

But in a path to the playoff, the MWC might be the best bet for Boise St. at this point.

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