Boise Makes a Move

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The Mountain West Conference opted not to add Boise State last weekend during its summer meetings to gauge the changing landscape around it, but then quickly moved to get the Broncos in on Friday, expanding MWC ...

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[keithj]

Could Baylor pull together Rice, SMU and Houston, with perhaps North Texas, UTEP, Tulsa and perhaps Tulane or Louisiana-Lafayette for at least an eight-team league with other regional schools perhaps in the mix to take the total to 10

Yes, please!

[cajunvol05]

The Big East Conference will invite Boise State, Navy and Air Force for football only and SMU, Houston and Central Florida for all sports, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/st...cording-report

[CajunRebel]

Here we go. The dominos are falling and now it's time to see where we end up.

[raginsaints]

Doesn't look like we end up anywhere as of now. Plus, CUSA isn't looking too great right now anyway.

[RedTails]

Doesn't look like we end up anywhere as of now. Plus, CUSA isn't looking too great right now anyway.

Yea, only attractive teams left are S. Miss, Tulane (for the trips), and Tulsa.

[VObserver]

Leave Tulane and Tulsa off the list. Add Memphis. Invite USM and Memphis to the Sunbelt.. Helps football, baseball and basketball; both solidly within the current footprint. No private school 'we are Harvard' egos.

[jllanclos]

I bet we will like where we end up. At least one things for sure: we will end up in a conference with a new commissioner. :-)

[CajunRed]

CUSA is currently ranked 8th...but that is today's CUSA. Tomorrow's CUSA will look much different. NOW is the time for a merging of the majority of teams from both the Belt and what will be left of CUSA. But I guess that makes too much sense.

[RaginWaldo]

I wouldnt be suprised if WAC and Conf USA just combined with each other.

[cajunhawk]

I wouldnt be suprised if WAC and Conf USA just combined with each other.

But what happens when the Mountain West loses Boise State and Air Force...and Conference USA loses UCF, Houston, and SMU? Will the mega conference be terminated? Regardless, if the mega conference happens without the teams that the Big East wants, they will not get an auto bid to the BCS. Hell, there is no guarantee that the Big East will keep theirs. Whats the point of all this? I still say all the non-AQ conferences should void all money game contracts, request out of the BCS and let them fend for themselves.

All we are to the AQ conference members is an easy win to keep their season perfect. What happens if we say no? What happens if the big boys have to start picking BCS teams for their homecoming games? I know it's customary to not bite the hand that feeds...but I don't see us getting fat from what we get from the BCS. That makes starvation easier to handle. Perennial BCS cellar dwellers would be getting budget boosts to play guarantee games. The only difference between how it is done now, they have the money to turn it around.

Let's say Ohio State sends an offer for a cool $900k all the way to Washington State and in two years...Wazzu will play Ohio State in Columbus and regardless of the outcome, Wazzu will get $900k. In two years...lets say Wazzu goes on a spending spree and revamps their athletic department. New leadership, turns them into a rising star...now Ohio State is no longer playing a cellar dweller for homecoming. With using the non-AQ teams as guarantees, there is very little chance they will ever do what a BCS team is capable of. The BCS needs doormats...or it cannot survive. Without us they will systematically turn into what they have striven for so long to keep from happening....they will have parity. Then the BCS formula becomes insanity. A broken terminal. Without parity it is easy to pick the two ripest apple from the tree. Give all the apples equal footing...how can you choose? They all look so ripe!!!

[Cajunsmike]

I wouldnt be suprised if WAC and Conf USA just combined with each other.

CUSA and the MWC have talked about some type of arrangement. WAC is not part of those conversation.