Mountain West opts not to invite Boise State (UPDATED)

I am so done with them. I always hope we would get the invitation, but they kept stringing us along. Then all these knew rumors came up and I got excited again. Now this. SCREW THE MOUNTAIN WEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If no other conference expands, neither does the MWC.

If I am wrong, then see what happened the last time they expanded.

chicken(bw)!!!!! I think I finally have it figured out — just wait until the Big XII implodes, steal their weakest teams (talking football only), then the MWC will become a pseudo-BCS conference. Nevermind that the addition of Kansas State, Kansas, Iowa State, Baylor, or Colorado will actually decrease the competition in the Mountain West. In fact, adding any of these teams is way better than adding the 2010-11 National Champion.

are they going to wait until their top teams get pilfered by other conferences before extending the invitation, leaving us no better off than being in the WAC, but with a crappy TV deal, **uck the mwc

Today MWC dropped the ball. They could have easily improved their conference (football minimum) with an invite to Boise State. Now they are going to be playing catch up and hope to high heavans that UTAH/BYU/TCU does not get poached.

By adding/inviting Boise today they could have made a very formidable top heavy conference that could compete with ACC/Big East for BCS considerations. And after the Dominos fall they could have picked from the left overs, sent invites to others like Houston/Fresno St to get to 12 or whatever. Today would have been a small pixel in the big picture but they failed to seize the moment. Now they run the same risk that BIIX, Big East, ACC runs and that is being poached. Way to go MWC! Way to actually make waves in what your end goal should be…

I would rather stay in the WAC, where all the teams respect us.

I thought the whole idea behind the MWC expanding would be to make the conference a BCS conference? If the PAC 10 takes the Texas and Oklahoma schools, how does Colorado, Kansas, Kansas St., or Iowa St. help the MWC reach this goal? Ok, I understand Kansas for the sake of basketball, and maybe once a decade they’ll help with football standings.

I’m still not totally sold one way or the other. It would have been really nice to have all this stupid speculation over. Bad words….

Without BSU. RT @slmandel: The BCS AQ formula says MWC has to finish in “top six” of 3 criteria. If Big 12 dissolves — problem solved.

It’s true. I hate the Mountain West.

I just realized, we probably will be able to win 15 more WAC titles!!!!!!!

The MWC meets two of he three criteria required for auotmatic BCS inclusion. The third, Conferece strength top to bottom, is where they lag. Even adding Boise State doesn’t bring them up enough to meet the criteria. Adding Iowa State or Kansas State, no matter how crappy they might be, raises it significantly because of the overall strength of the BIGXII, i.e. Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Mizzou et al.

They’re waiting to snag one or more of those teams simply on the basis of gaining BCS AQ Status.

Attach MWC Presser to bulletin board, use it as motivation to destroy every opponent this season.

i wish we played byu and utah this year, im completely done being enticed by the possibility of moving to the mwc

The chip on their shoulder lives on.

it has gone the way of WMD’s, war on terror and BCS buster.

I live in Provo, UT, and am a huge Boise State fan. I have a 6×3 Boise State flag that will be flown all around the town, showing these idiot MWC teams that we do not need them to go further. We don’t need them. We’ll keep treading in the waters of mediocrity, beating huge schools on neutral fields, recruiting ** players from towns like Coeur D’ Alene, ID, Piscataway, New Jersey, Amsterdam, Netherlands and the blessed Prosser, Washington. I hope the MWC burns in their Mormon-led division. Keep safe idiots. Boise State will Dominate!

If the mwc extends an invitation to BSU before the end of the month are we all pissed at the mwc still?

The PAC 10 has had its problems with getting beat by MWC teams. What they need is a team that has a proven track record of beating MWC teams…. Ta Da! Welcome Boise State! I know that there is about an ice cubes chance in hell for an invite from the PAC 10 but they could add us just to take down those pesky MWC teams that have been giving them trouble. Like hiring a hit man or something. Problem solved. Plus we would get the likes of USC, Cal, Washington, Arizona etc. coming to town every other year. I really think that the MWC blew it so I hope there are other opportunities out there for BSU. I would love to see us win the NC and then next year when they come knocking tell them to take a flying leap. I guess one can only hope.

Wait until the Big 12 implodes, taking Colorado, Kansas, and Kansas State to get there ideal conference of 12. Of course they leave Boise State out in the cold, allegedly because their academics didn’t fit the Mountain West’s “culture.”

Bad things can only happen if they wait… too long.

I still think they will act soon (within 10 days). However, if they aren’t ready to make offers to the Big 12 remaining teams after the PAC 16 forms, then the MWC is in serious trouble.

I don’t see the MWC expanding to just 12 teams, because I believe the 4 “Super-Sixteen” conferences will force all remaining conferences to go to 16 to have a chance to Dance.

I’m not worried about Boise landing in the MWC by the end of June.

http://twitter.com/murphsturph/status/15656921773

i asked him the distance between SD and kansas said the same.

also:

bsu guys speaking up:
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/1o1c5s

I suppose that makes me a bad person for pointing that out.

Only to tell them: You wasted your money coming here. Were not going to invite Boise State. I guess Justin Corr will be happy. He sided against Boise State joining the Mountain West in all those fake arguments with Zach Wolken.

The highlight of my day was watching Mark Johnson try to stall for 13 minutes until the presser started. I felt bad for all Idaho journalists in that room with him giving the sad eyes to other reporters saying, “Yes, that’s what we have to deal with.”

As a Fan I was hopeful the MWC would add Boise today, but they didn’t in the end this might prove to be a huge mistake on their behalf, as I hope it will be .
That being said we can only deal with what we can control. As a fan living in Michigan that means I will support BSU football by going to DC the first week in sept, and hopefully back to AZ in Jan like I did this year.
As for the players sure you can use this but you already know now the spotlight is on you control what you can control that which is in front of you let others worry about the rest.. Lets take the shot we have no at history!

BYU hates Boise State , people in General hate Boise period. You know the last thing they wanted was to get beat year in year out by BSU!

One of the more annoying side stories with the delay or rejection by the MWC is the effect this might place on recruiting. BSU competes directly with MWC teams for recruits and has made scholarship offers to many of the same prospects (CSU, SDSU and Utah 4, TCU and Wyo 3, BYU 2 and AA & UNLV 1 of BSU‘s top 25 offers).

Boise State has not found it difficult to outbid the MWC bottom feeders, but the big three are another story. Coach Pete has vastly upgraded the average star value of his target market of prospects this year and I suspect that the expectations on the part of at least some of these players is for an upgrade in the conference.

Don’t know where I’d hear about what his press conference is about.

I think that in the end this is just a big joke against the MWC. Really, none of the AQ conferences want the MWC to join them at the BCS table. Therefore, the Pac-10 and the Big XII began all these conference expansion rumors to stall the MWC from inviting Boise State. They know that if BSU joins the MWC, then they could become a legitimate contender for AQ status. Hahaha.,.. the joke’s on you Craig!

I’m going to do my best to stay optimistic for the rest of the month. If Boise gets the invite, great. If not, then BSU will continue to do what they do best, and that’s win no matter where they are. Whether Boise State gets an invitation this, this year, or in the next 10 years they will have deserved it.

Disclaimer: Due to my lack of patience I can only stay optimistic for so long. So the chips better start falling soon before I start buying cases of Maalox.

An unsurprising decision, since the MWC knows that Boise isn’t going anywhere unless the MWC is already destroyed. Boise has no power in this situation because they’re not an academic or TV market fit for the Pac 10 or Big 10, they’re too far away from the Big East to be appealing, and if the Big 12 takes them it will only be after TCU/Utah/BYU have already gone there and the MWC is dead.

From a MWC perspective, it’s an understandable decision. Getting a chance at the dregs of the Big 12- Kansas, K-State and taking Houston from C-USA would lead to a pretty nice conference that easily ranks above the ACC and Big East. It absolutely sucks for Boise, but the MWC knows Boise will be there.

From a TCU fan perspective, which is my natural perspective, I’m pissed off that we don’t get a chance to pay you back for last season. Best case scenario, see you boys in the title game. Until then, good luck Broncs.

I can’t imagine a conference that already has loads of money and a BCS auto bid dissolving into thin air…meanwhile a mid-major conference like the MWC wielding the power to pouch teams from a BCS conference…Has Craig Thompson been drinking the MWC is so amazing Kool-Aid??

Even if some teams leave for the PAC – 10, the Big 12 will be able to buy-off the required six teams that is necessary to keep their conference status. I believe what is much more probable is that the Big 12 would keep six and pouch BYU, TCU, Utah, and Air Force from the MWC conference…and maybe even take BSU.