The Mountain West welcomes two new members

With news that BYU was headed indy in football and taking the rest of their sports to the WAC the Mountain West Conference has signed, sealed and delivered two new insitutions. The University of Californa, Fresno State the University of Nevada, Reno will both join the Mountain West in as soon as 2011.

This will ensure that the MWC stays at least a 10 team conference and could signal a death blow to the WAC the former home of both schools. Will these schools help the Mountain West automatic qualifying as a BCS conference? Not right away but the potential is there. Fresno State has 22 wins over the past three years and Nevada has 21. The great thing is that the Mountain West will have at least 10 teams and a solid foundation.

Are these new additions perfect? No but they are a great fit geographically and will be great travel partners for UNLV and San Diego State.

What are they missing? Fresno needs to starting winning some bowl games once they join :P And their bulldog logo bugs me. Nevada needs to starts packing their stadium, their attendance is terrible at home and hardly any fans support the team on the road. Hopefully this will all change with the stiffer competition.

So what does this mean for BYU? Do continue their way out and join the scraps of the WAC or perhaps the WCC? Or do they come back and play nice in the Mountain West.

Thompson was just in Philadelphia meeting with Comcast and CBS College discussing the tv deal. Will these new markets mean a boost to the viewership of the Mtn? I would stoked by any improvement in the current deal.

Right now I'm view MWC Commisioner as a bad ass.


Craig Thompson does his best impersonation of Jules from Pulp Fiction

And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.

Screw you Utah!

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First Utah leaves for the Pac 10 (12) and now BYU leaves the Mountain West to go independent in Football and have all others sports play in the WAC????


After the last three years have been going so well for the Mountain West and the conference was so close to gaining a BCS berth. Now this happens? Who would have guessed that the state of Utah would ruin a good time that was being had by all the members of it's conference. The "no fun allowed" state just kicked it up a notch.

This could have huge ripple effects for the entire conference and the Mountain West may cease to exist if Boise decides to go back to the WAC which they can still do until September with no penalty.

When Utah was picked to join the Pac 10 it set off the BYU loyalists who felt left out. This reaction to become independent is coming to quick and they should have waited to see how the MWC is with Boise joining.

Well guess Wyoming doesn't have to worry about traveling to Utah anymore after this year.