Expansion
Mountain West and Conference USA merger?
Bleacher report just published a story about a possible merger between the MWC and Conference USA. If the MWC can pick off a few quality teams from Conference USA, then it becomes a mid-major superpower, and can really challenge the BCS conferences for sooner addmission into AQ status, and BYU really would have to rethink [...]
BYU’s dillemma
My how things have changed in the last few hours. Somehow the incompetent Craig Thompson, commissioner of the MWC seems to have made it nearly impossible for BYU to leave without injury to it’s non-football sports by raiding the WAC of Nevada and Fresno State. This move changes things in a two important ways. First, [...]
BYU Is Leaving The Mountain West Conference To Be Independent
Sources are now confirming what Craig Thompson and the entire MWC have been fearing since Utah left for the Pac-10: BYU is pulling a Sarah Palin and “going rogue.” It seems the only thing in the way now is the pending approval of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who owns Brigham Young [...]
The New Big Ten and Pac-12 Divisions
Ever since Nebraska joined the Big Ten and Colorado and Utah joined the Pac-10, no one has said much about how the conferences will be structured. Granted, the change can’t even happen this year so it isn’t a big deal, but what is the best natural fit for each conference? They obviously want a championship, [...]
My Proposed Big Texas Conference
I know everyone is already calling the new Big XII the Big Texas Conference, but hold your horses. Texas obviously owns the conference and all bow to their will. But this whole thing got me thinking- what if there really was a Big Texas conference? What would it look like? How would it go? I’ll [...]
