As previously speculated in this space, two teams from Texas have interest in joining the depleted WAC. Texas State and UT-San Antonio, along with Denver, Montana, and Seattle, were scheduled to meet with the conference membership committee in Dallas today and present their cases for a bump up to Division I-A:
Now Applying To The WAC: Denver, Montana, Seattle, Texas State, UT-San Antonio
Among the items schools are expected to discuss are budgets, current rosters, the institution in general, sponsorship, institutional commitment and how their individual markets would be attractive to the WAC.
Texas State, UT-San Antonio and Montana will make presentations as potential football-playing members. Benson said he hopes to have a minimum of eight football-playing schools prior to the 2012 season.
Denver and Seattle are applying as basketball members; if the idea of UT-San Antonio joining I-A football sounds unfamiliar, it’s because they won’t even officially launch their program until 2011. And if you’re wondering what “attractive markets” and “Montana” have to do with one another, New Mexico State AD McKinley Boston has some thoughts that perfectly encapsulate the current state of the WAC:
I like Montana’s footprint in terms of its location in the west. It has a football brand, even though it’s at the 1-AA level, but it wouldn’t take long for people to adjust to it.Phrasing is king: It wouldn’t take long for WAC audiences to adjust to I-AA football? What a tragic commentary on our times.
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