Mountain Shake Up

Fresno State and Nevada have both accepted an invitation to join the Mountain West Conference.  Now the conference has 11 teams if BYU stays in place.  The move makes the WAC on the bubble of breaking up.  Unless it acquires additional teams the WAC would not meet the NCAA requirement of 6 teams.  This would impact BYU's plans to play non football sports in the WAC.  However BYU has received an invitation to play those sports in the West Coast Conference.  I am sure this madness is only beginning and we will have plenty of more posts tomorrow.

More Conference Movement!

Just when we thought the Madness had ended we were wrong.   BYU likely to go Independent in football has spurred more movement.  The Fresno Bee is now reporting that Fresno State will accept an invitation to the Mountain West Conference.  The question remains as to whether this move is an attempt to keep BYU or replace them. 
Another change that is suprising and to be honest fairly random is the switch of confrences that is being reported between Louisiana Tech and UTEP.  UTEP will join the WAC and Louisiana Tech will leave the WAC for Conference USA.  The only way this makes sense is geographically,since when does anyone care about that, however for these two schools a more regionally based conference may help with travel costs. 
One last thought: if Nevada & Fresno both leave for the Mountain West what will happen to the WAC? This will leave the WAC with six full members. Even if  BYU joins for all other sports, the WAC will still only have seven members and six for football.  It is hard to imagine that as a viable conference.  If the Mountain West can keep adding schools they grow ever closer to the magic number of twelve and the possibilty of a conference championship.