Utah State Asking for Do Over; Talking to Mountain West About Joining
06.00Utah State found itself in a terrible position last week after it made what it considered to be a principled stand in turning down a bid from the Mountain West Conference to honor an agreement among all of the then current WAC members to stay in the WAC. It was promptly stabbed in the back when Fresno State and Nevada leaped over each over in their hurry to accept MWC bids when offered, conveniently forgetting that solidarity pledge they had made only days before. Shades of the Big East/ACC battles of several years ago, although the stakes involved are much smaller.
So, now, Utah State finds itself in a much diminished WAC, which still has no guarantee that BYU will join for sports other than football because, as of this writing, BYU remains a member of the MWC. (Notice how the phrasing about BYU is beginning to resemble sentences written every summer about Brett Favre?) So, USU has done the only logical thing it could do and has re-opened discussions with the MWC with an eye towards joining in time for the 2012 season. The MWC appears receptive and the talks are ongoing. Take a seat; the soap opera that is college athletics these days is spinning another chapter.
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