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 leaving a conference poised to be able to renegociate their agreement with college football as well as a new, more profitable TV deal.
This would solve all of BYU’s reasons for leaving, and make it really kind of stupid to do so. Updates will follow on any more breaking news.
Even if this new league comes to pass, they still wouldn’t get a spot at the big boys table(the BCS AQ clique) because they don’t want to share any more of the pie.