Mountain West Conference Expansion Not Happening; Sorry, Utah State And San Jose State
With reports coming out that the Mountain West Conference was considering adding Utah State and San Jose State at some point this week, the conference released a statement Tuesday announcing it’ll stand pat for now.
From the conference’s website:
Read Article >Utah State, San Jose State Could Join Mountain West Conference Within 24 Hours
The Mountain West Conference may not be done expanding. The conference is reportedly looking to add Utah State and San Jose State to form a 12-team football league. According to Utah State beat writer Tony Jones, this latest expansion move could be made within the next 24 to 48 hours.
The MWC is currently holding its annual directors’ meetings in Las Vegas, and a final decision is expected to be made when Comcast informs the league how much a 12-team league would be valued. One way or the other, that number will swat the Mountain West to either stay put at 10 teams or go to 12, which would include a conference title game.
Read Article >WAC Considers Inviting North Texas To Join Them; Still Trying To Keep Hawaii
At this point, you have to say that the “Fight Hunger” Bowl is a perfect tie-in for the new Western Athletic (Quasi)Conference.
Read Article >WAC To Hawaii: Please Don’t Go, Girl
In the ongoing telenovela that is the Mountain West expansion/WAC contraction/WAC re-expansion rigamarole, we’ve now reached the point where all involved parties have acknowledged their adultery, Hawaii is lugging boxes out of the house and deliberately avoiding eye contact, and the WAC has reached the “bargaining” stage of grief: In between sobs, cutting out Hawaii’s eyes in all conference group photos, and stress eating, they’ve offered the Warriors a football-only membership to keep the family together:
Hawaii and the Mountain West acknowledged Thursday night that they are negotiating to have the Warriors join the league as a football-only member.
The WAC’s offer to its longest-serving current member came after athletic directors at Idaho, Louisiana Tech, New Mexico State, San Jose State and Utah State voted on a Thursday conference call.
Benson’s e-mail also suggests that the Mountain West is still evaluating the impact of adding Hawaii on its television contract and the evaluation could take up to a month.
Our fervent hope, as always, is that this will stretch into the offseason to give us something to write about in March.
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