How the Conference USA - Mountain West merger might affect Boise State
by Kevan Lee on Feb 14, 2012 8:00 AM PST
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PrintTwo of America's more desperate football conferences announced a merger yesterday, and beginning in 2013, the Mountain West and Conference USA will be one. Happy Valentine's Day, lovebirds.
The new superconference of mild irrelevance hopes to feature 18-24 teams and hold semifinals before its championship games and, most importantly, get itself a new television contract. Boise State narrowly avoided getting its foot caught in the trap when it chose to bolt for the Big East. Good call, I'd say. But still, the CUSA-Mountain West marriage might have some affects on Bronco Nation. For instance:
Where will Boise State's Olympic sports go if the WAC no longer exists?
Many folks are predicting the demise of the WAC if the new CUSA-MWC makes good on its promise of 18-24 teams by poaching several lesser and lesser WAC ones. If enough schools leave, there may be no WAC, and if there is no WAC, then Boise State's basketball teams and the like will need to find a new place to call home. There's always the Big West, which will adopt Hawaii's orphaned non-football programs, or the West Coast Conference, which picked up BYU. Someone will want the Broncos, and that's more than I can say about ...
The Idaho Vandals: No one's expansion target
Wither Idaho football? Hopefully! The Vandals appear to be collateral damage if the WAC does indeed go by the wayside. No one is talking about Idaho when it comes to conference realignment, probably because people have forgot the Vandals exist.
Boise State may have no one to collect its exit fee
Brian Murphy asks:
Are Bronco fans missing out?
I'll admit that the idea of a 24-team superconference with its own quasi-playoff sounds intriguing if only because any type of playoff in any way, shape, or form is intriguing at this point. And with the unknown of BCS bids and the Big East's football reputation, I would be lying if I said that I had not considered what life would have been like if the Broncos would have remained tied to Craig Thompson's hair cart in the Mountain West.
But I have faith that the Big East will be the best place for Boise State football in the present and the future, so it's hard to lust after a Mountain Conference USA West with the Colorado States and Rices of the world. I'm intrigued, but ultimately not interested.
Your turn
How does the CUSA-MWC merger make you feel? Wistful? Relieved? Ambivalent? What do you think about the future of Boise State's Olympic sports? Share your thoughts in the comments.
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Honestly I think the MWC-CUSA merger would be cool if they too kin the sunbelt and mac and basically created its own NCAA league
Don’t know if that’s possible though and I still wouldn’t want to be a part of it.
haha I think I'm going to save those images for re-captioning later...
if and when the need/opportunity arises
haters gonna hate, potatoes gonna potate.
*Chris Petersen For President*
by mc.hammertime on Feb 14, 2012 8:22 AM PST up reply actions
I..D...A-H-O! Back to the big sky you must go!
Looks like more than one Boise State wish upon a star might finally be coming true…
haters gonna hate, potatoes gonna potate.
*Chris Petersen For President*
Don't think the WCC will want us for other sports...
They currently are all private religious schools…
I predict Idaho will follow BSU’s lead, and join another conference…unfortunately for Idaho, they become a cellar dwellar in the Sun Belt once again.
Yeah WCC is not even an option
Big West would be a tough sell, right now they’re a bus league. Hopefully an up and coming Bronco bball squad can peak their interest.
by BSUbluNorange on Feb 14, 2012 9:29 AM PST up reply actions
Now I REALLY want BSU to move up to the Big East immediately.
This merger is a complete joke. Any semblance of credibility that the Mountain Worst had is now gone.
Clippers // Chargers // Rays // Boise State
"The Lakers do win games. But things can change." - Blake Griffin
by 82-0 on Feb 14, 2012 9:01 AM PST via mobile reply actions
Not worried if the WAC collapses
I am sure we can get into the Big West without too much difficulty and playing SDSU in BBall combined with our non-conference games with Big East teams would actually be a step up compared to what we play now.
Frankenstein's monster...
has nothing on this. But hey, maybe this will give the teams currently stuck on the Island of Misfit Toys (WAC) a place to call home. For the Vandals, its a no brainer.
Am glad we won’t be part of it…
Visions of Gene Wilder/Craig Thompson as Dr Frankenstein – the storm is raging, lightning flashing as he stands over the new conference screaming….
“LIIIIFE!! GIVE MY CREATION LIIIIIFE!!!!!!”
Just wanted to pop in
to thank Boise State for extricating us from that poo-fueled dumpster fire.
I should also go thank BYU for being so insufferably annoying and obstinate.
by AztecsKillingHim on Feb 14, 2012 12:15 PM PST reply actions
Indeed.
I think that most of your thanks should go to BYU.
by Drew Roberts on Feb 14, 2012 1:05 PM PST up reply actions
You are welcome
Glad to have a western partner in the mix.
Thompson sucks.
Craig Thompson is possibly the worst commissioner in the history of commissioners. Snubbing Boise State for years keeping the Mountain West from possibly getting AQ bid sooner, and then signing that t.v. deal. He single handedly took down a great upstart conference, in our neck of the woods.
Has the NCAA approved a semifinal game?
Or would the championship game just be a glorified bowl game between the MWC champion and the CUSA Champion?
If the NCAA approves a semifinal game would mean that a team could play as many as 15 games in a season and a 4 year starter could play as many as 60 games in his career. That means that he could go 51-9 and still beat Kellen winningest QB record. LAME.
Maybe after they have thier little play-off, we can play the winner.
If this super conference is so super why can’t they accept our other sports. They are all very well respected.
We didn't put our Olympic sports in the Big East because the travel wouldn't profitable.
Bball maybe, someday, but not the others
True...but only partly
The Big East schools didn’t want to have to travel to SDSU and BSU for Olympic sports…don’t think it was simply our choice to avoid financial losses
by KyleWilson01 on Feb 14, 2012 8:50 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
As things lie now there will be 46 teams in the five "mid-major" non-BCS conferences: MAC, WAC, MW, CUSA, and SBC
Rumors are FCS Liberty wants to make the jump to FBS. Promote one more school to FBS and you have 48 schools. Those schools should all merge, ala the MWCUSA into a 48 team league consisting of six regional eight school divisions. They will operate independently between FBS and FCS and have their own playoffs and crown their own champion. This is of course assuming that the Big East doesn’t poach anymore schools (I think the Big East needs to get to 16 in order to compete and be relevant with the Pac12s, SECs, Big12s, and Big10s), but even if the MW and/CUSA lose a few more schools it will still work. The only BCS-esque schools currently not headed for BCS status remaining are: Tulsa, So.Miss, ECU, air Force, BYU, Temple, LaTech, Toledo, and NIU.
I'm not worried about the WAC going away completely. It could easily survive as a basketball conference.
Several schools in the Great west need a stable conference: Houston Baptist, Texas Pan-American, Utah Valley, Cal State Bakersfield. Add in UT-Arlington, Seattle, Denver, and Boise State, and that makes eight.
There is still the little issue of what will happen to UTSA, Texas State, Idaho, and SJSU. (I assume the new MWCUSA will take LaTech, NMSU, and Utah State.)
CUSA and MW have backed into something good
The merger will create the second super conference. If they can have a 4 team playoff, it would be the only one in FBS. I think thats cool. The amount of good teams left for expansion is dropping. The SEC needs to move to 16 teams. Then it can have a 4 team toury for the SEC champion. That would mean more football. That would mean more competitive football. That would mean more dolla’ dolla’ bills y’all; that means more money yous guys or whatever y’all say. It also means that the SEC champ would be in any National Playoff. Whether that would be 4 teams, 8 teams, 2 teams or 1 team.
by Bisquick_in_da_MGM on Feb 15, 2012 10:44 AM PST reply actions
Bisquick, I saw your post
on Frogs o’ War about their scandal. You’re just mean sometimes. Why?
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they, too, have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit.
I'm giving them a hard time
I do not feel sorry that 17 or more people chose to brake the law by selling drugs. The TCU fans are not upset that people are braking the law. They are upset that some of those people might be football players. Go look at the Texas page and ask the 160 plus people why they are doing the same thing.
by Bisquick_in_da_MGM on Feb 15, 2012 4:09 PM PST up reply actions
No one is disputing that dealing drugs is bad, Bis
But your comment about TCU losing in the Big 12 was pure meanness. Why do you feel compelled to “give them a hard time”?—you have also felt compelled to give BSU a “hard time.” And just because others in Texas might also be cruel, do you figure that gives you license? Who died and appointed you the King of Snark, simply because you can hide behind an anonymous address? Come on back when you grow up, please.
(By the way, one does not “brake” the law, unless one is putting a stop to the law. See the yellow and blue picture below.)
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they, too, have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit.
TCU isn't going to lose in the Big XII
We all know this. They are a BSC buster. Sorry about using brake instead of break. I’ll try to do better. I have reflected on the matter and I know that I was wrong. I went to the Texas fans and told them that they should be ashamed of their behavior. I am sorry.
by Bisquick_in_da_MGM on Feb 15, 2012 4:55 PM PST up reply actions
Thank you for that, Bis
Now, go to the Frogs site and tell them about your reflection. They’re the ones who are suffering the injury.
And, no, we don’t all know that “TCU isn’t going to lose in the Big XII.” If you’re convinced of that, I suggest you move to Vegas.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they, too, have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit.
"or whatever y’all say"
Bisquick, the word is “you.” Y-O-U. It’s actually easier to type, as it has only three keystrokes instead of five. Try it sometime.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they, too, have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexations to the spirit.
so the little guys
must battle it out for a spot? The man is still keeping them down…
"We do not take counsel of our fears, our naysayers, or the unknown" Coach Pete 1-1-07
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Fri 08/31 | 6:00 p.m. MT |
| Miami (OH) | Sat 09/15 | 2:00 p.m. MT |
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| San Diego State | Sat 11/03 | 8:30 p.m. MT |
| @ Hawaii | Sat 11/10 | 5:00 p.m. MT |
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| @ Nevada | Sat 12/1 | TBA |
