KBOI is reporting that the WAC commissioners are considering dropping football and continuing as a non-football conference after this academic year. Beginning in 2013, there are only 2 football-playing members left in the WAC...Idaho and New Mexico State.
There are at least 3 schools that the WAC can invite as non-football members to join Idaho, New Mexico State, Denver, Seattle and Boise State in the non-football world. Utah Valley, Cal State Bakersfield, and Texas Pan-American who is the only non-football member left in the Southland Conference. There may be some Division II programs in the WAC footprint that will find a reason to upgrade to Division I as non-football schools that may end up in the WAC, but I will not go into who or the reasons why at this time as those reasons are too speculative at this point even for this blog.
New Mexico State and Idaho are likely to wait out 2013 and possibly 2014 as FBS independents in hopes that more conference realignment will open up spots in either the Mountain West Conference or Conference USA or Sun Belt Conference. Perhaps, as a longshot, members of the Big Sky Conference, Missouri Valley Football Conference or Southland Conference wish to pursue an upgrade to the Football Bowl Subdivision and the WAC can re-emerge as a football Conference.
Should a reclassification to the FCS be needed, Idaho will likely join the Big Sky Conference as a football-only member and New Mexico State will likely join the Southland Conference as a football-only member.
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