Seeing tweets that Utah State and Hawaii are going to be invited to the MWC, plus Tulsa to give the MWC 12 football teams and a Conference Championship Game. Hawaii will be football only.
La-Tech to the C-USA to replace Tulsa will be the next domino.
And if it goes down like this then the WAC is finished as a football conference. They will be left with San Jose State, Idaho, New Mexico State, Texas State and UTSA. Even Lloyd Christmas can count the number of bowls this quintet has been two in the last decade. (That is Jim Carey's character in Dumb and Dumber and the number is 1.).
As I blogged a couple of days ago, the WAC may not yet be finished, because they also have Denver in Basketball and can add Seattle, Cal State Bakersfield and Utah Valley esily and still be a Basketball conference. But will need to bow out as a football conference for a couple of years. Sure, these five can remain a conference for scheduling sake for a couple of years. But say goodbye to any automatic bowl games. They need to give Montana, Cal Poly and a few others a chance to be ready for the FCS to FBS jump. Perhaps by 2015, they can be a 9 - 12 member football conference again.
Another option is to play the ESPN card and beg Boise State, Fresno State and Nevada to come back. Without TCU, there is little chance now that the MWC will get AQ status in the BCS because they only have the success of Boise State to hang their hat on. With how bad the Big East has been, it was looking like a sure thing with BSU, BYU, TCU and Utah. But 3/4 of that equation is gone. And now the MWC is really the old WAC with a lousy TV contract. May Karl Benson buries the hatchet. Who knows, they (BSU, FSU and Nevada) could bring some of their new friends like San Diego State, UNLV and Colorado State to come back with them. It could happen, it has been a crazy fall and it's not over yet.
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