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.    

College Conference Realignment

The Big Ten is rumored to have offered membership in the conference to Nebraska, Missouri, Rutgers, and Notre Dame. 
This got us thinking if they all accepted what would this do to the rest of the conferences.  Below is our possibilities of what would happen within about 2-3 years if the conference realingment snowball starts rolling. 

Pac-10 would add:
Colorado
Utah

SEC would add:
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas A&M
Oklahoma State

Big 12 would add:
TCU
BYU
UNLV
Boise State
Houston
Memphis or Tulsa or possibly Fresno State.  If they added all 3 they could be the Big 14.

WAC & what is left of the Mountain West would basically merge.  Some teams like Louisiana Tech may fill possible voids in Conference USA. 

This is just our thoughts let us know what you think.  It is a fun conversation anyway!