The Idaho Statesman newspaper in Boise has ran with the prospect that Boise State will be asked to join the Mountain West Conference. Here are a couple of recent stories that ran. Also on its website are capsules of the MWC school presidents that will ultimately decide Boise’s fate in joining the league.
MWC presidents meet in Jackson June 6-8. A decision could be made then. If Boise State is to join, we should know by July 1.
Check out these stories and let me know what you think.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/05/23/1203366/will-boise-state-play-in-a-bigger.html
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2010/05/23/1203370/utah-president-its-about-more.html
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This discussion is likely to be moot perhaps sooner than is being discussed. With the Big Ten reported to be growing to 16 schools in the next few years, there are going to be big changes across the landscape of college sports. I have read the Pacific Ten is likely to grow to 16 schools also in response to the Big Ten, SEC, and ACC expanding. Boise State would have be included in the list of six schools to be added to the Pac10. The revenues the school could make as compared to what they make in the WAC or could make in the MWC (if it still were to exist) would be tremendously greater. In due time Boise State will be part of the big club, and its instate rivals Idaho and Idaho State will not, along with Wyoming. Besides Boise State, the only WAC school that may become part of BCS conferences is perhaps Nevada. I see little if no chance for the other seven members of that conference getting asked to become a member of a BCS conference for a number of reasons – primarily geographic, but also demographic, academic, historic, and one big other one: the other seven schools simply lack enough sufficient eyeballs that would be glued to the tv watching sports.