The good news is that the Mountain West Conference is doing what it needs to be included in the Bowl Championship Series.
The bad news is that the new cycle for BCS restructuring is in a couple of more years. So a slip up between now and then will in all likelihood continue to leave the MWC on the outside looking in.
To steal a phrase from Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis for what the MWC must do from now and then, “just win, baby.”
Here is more on this story: http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/21627/two-years-into-evaluation-mwc-in-a-good-spot
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Interesting to talk to the nine MWC football coaches during yesterday’s teleconference.
Utah coach Kyle Whittingham picked TCU as the team to beat. TCU coach Gary Patterson laughed and said, “he picked us last year.”
With 19 starters back, including four on offense that earned all-conference honors last season, it’s would be tough to bet against the Horned Frogs.
Still will be tough for the rest of the league to catch the “Big Three” in TCU, BYU and Utah. What do you think?
In the coming days I will go back over my own notes from UW spring football and from the teleconference to give you updates and news from around the league. Colorado State is the only MWC team still in spring drills. Its spring game is Saturday.
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Just got a text from Wyoming men’s basketball coach Heath Schroyer, who is on the road right now, and he said there is no update on the health status of junior center Boubacar Sylla.
Sylla is having doctors look at a nagging foot injury that has plagued him through most of his college career, dating back to when he first broke into the college at Auburn. If doctors determine he can no longer play due to his injuries, he can remain on scholarship at UW but the Cowboys would be able to go out and sign another player.
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From the rich get richer department, BYU landed an prized junior-college men’s basketball recruit this week.
http://www.sltrib.com/byucougars/ci_14931103
And just how lucrative is the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, check this out:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5125307
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Check out Friday’s Wyoming Tribune Eagle and Laramie Boomerang and WyoSports senior columnist/writer Bob Hammond caught up with former UW football player Derrick Martin, who is with the Green Bay Packers.
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Reading speculation on Boise State joining the MWC, any discussion .of that happening next year or two.
As far as I know and heard, all that remains speculation. If it happens it will occur here in the next year or two as other leagues expand or shrink and as the new BCS agreement or cycle renews. I wouldn’t expect anything to happen before then.
But if that story is true and the MWC continues to be on pace to be a BCS member in two years, why add a team? That’s just one more team to share the money pie with. Yes, that BCS pie would be significantly bigger, but no need to expand if you don’t have to.
At least that’s what I gather from all this. Should be interesting to follow.
As always, thanks for your posts and interest in the blog. I really appreciate it.
RG
We need to ensure that we continue to meet the stated requirements set forth by the BCS. I think that adding Boise might help our cause in obtaining that automatic birth and really adds to the prestige of the MWC. No birth no pie?