I think we might have a chance!

Boise State’s wrestling team is top-teir in the Pac-10. They are decent.

Because otherwise it looks like you are talking out of your..bill.

Boise State has a top-ten wrestling team, a perennial top-25 men’s tennis team, women’s gymnastics and soccer teams that won conference titles last season, and very good indoor and outdoor track and field teams with individual national champions the last few years.

I can sign on to the academics argument, to a degree (although you make Boise State sound like a third-rate alternative school, which makes my diploma worthless, apparently), but to say that BSU’s other sports aren’t good is patently ridiculous. Also, Boise State is a research university, but haven’t yet garnered the majority of the state funding in that area.

Oh…and how’s that powerful Corvallis and Eugene media market treating you?

utah at this point is the no brainer and pac 10 could definitely steal them from the mwc.

then who else?!

BYU? apparently no.

Colorado would be the next logical (academically-wise) choice. but they prolly won’t leave the big 12. unless, again, the money was right.

i’m pretty sure you’re over-rating dUI’s academics. i can’t dispute the number of programs. though dUI has been cutting programs AND entire colleges (hello, or should i say goodbye, college of letters, or whatever it’s called). and, unfortunately, that report about the 26% grad rate coming out isn’t necessarily a “gold star”. the argument to that, i say for the longest time, BSU was the only cost effective choice for higher education in the valley. there is college of idaho and NNU, but they are quite a bit more expensive. Treasure valley comm coll is in ontario, oregon. this means BSU gets all the other students who want some sort of education, but don’t have the $$$ to go elsewhere. now that there is the college of WESTERN idaho (that spun off of BSU) i expect that number to jump. they get the “castaway” students and avoids bsu from taking those negative hits.

I really don’t understand Colorado being considered a front runner. Why? Ok, they have a larger tv market and have more distinction academically, but those aren’t the main reasons for inviting a school into your conference. It’s about the football and basketball teams. And what in the world does Colorado have going for them in either sport? I’m not up to date exactly on their basketball team, but I know they were pretty terrible last year. And the football team is going absolutely no where, and fast. Colorado is still suffering from the sactions put on them. Does the PAC 10 really want to add a team suffering from sactions and is not on the rise at all? Colorado just does not make any sense to me for the PAC 10.