The Reno Gazette-Journal is citing multiple sources claiming Nevada will join the Mountain West for the 2011 season, leaving BYU with an extremely bare toy cupboard in the now-beleagured WAC:
Report: Nevada, Too, To The Mountain West
Nevada will join in-state rival UNLV and current WAC foe Boise State in the MWC, which also invited Fresno State to join the conference in 2011.
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Brigham Young University’s decision to consider being an independent in football and a member of the Western Athletic Conference in all other sports seems to have spurred all the movement.Say this for mid-major expansion: It’s proving a lot more straightforward and headache-free than all that nonsense earlier this summer with the BCS outfits. Nevada school officials have scheduled a press conference for later this evening.











