Boise State bolts Mountain West

[vols-1]

"Boise State beat the midnight deadline Saturday to withdraw from the Mountain West Conference, officially keeping the Broncos on the path toward Big East affiliation in college football for the fall of 2013.


The Idaho Statesman and the Las Vegas Review Journal reported the news earlier Saturday night with the Review Journal quoting UNLV president Neal Smatresk that he received Boise State's withdrawal letter.



Big East football in 2013
Barring further changes via conference realigment, the following 12 schools will play football in the Big East in 2013:

• Boise State
• Central Florida
• Cincinnati
• Connecticut
• Houston
• Louisville
• Memphis
• Rutgers
• San Diego State
• South Florida
• SMU
• Temple


Boise State had to beat the deadline to avoid paying a $5 million penalty that would have been incurred had the school failed to notify the MWC of its intentions past June 30. Boise State will already lose an estimated $2.5 million of revenue, according to the Statesman and Review Journal."

[TrueOrange]

I don't think the biggest question so much anymore was "will Boise leave for the big east like it had already agreed to do" so much as it was "after the more recent moves where is boise state going to house its other athletic programs now"

[TrueOrange]

Unless something drastically changed, they probably should have noted navy joining in 2015

Sucks for them that they had to pick back up temple though because of the delay with navy...(and supposedly still waiting on villanova to jump up to FBS, though getting BYU would have probably been better for them of all those there anyways)

[CountVolcula]

When did the Pacific Northwest become a part of the East Coast?

[Hoosier_Vol]

That Rutgers to Boise State flight will be fun!

[CountVolcula]

Need two Conferences

North and South

Every School above the 37th Parallel would be in the North, below would be in the South

[rebelvol]

Originally Posted by CountVolcula

Need two Conferences

North and South

Every School above the 37th Parallel would be in the North, below would be in the South

Love this idea, but it would not be fair AT ALL! South every time!

[TrueOrange]

Originally Posted by Crazed Vol

That Rutgers to Boise State flight will be fun!

How about the every x years flights from Boise to south Florida?

Or (along the same timeline) Rutgers to San Diego

[DeepSpringsVol]

Similar to LaTech & Hawaii exchanging home games. Talking about jetlag.

[TrueOrange]

Big question still is where will Boise's other athletic teams go now?

The plan was originally to put them in the WAC, but well how viable's that actually now?

[Aesius]

I understand the implications for basketball, but damn, Memphis is pretty much guaranteed to only win one or two games from now on in football.

[TrueOrange]

Originally Posted by Aesius

I understand the implications for basketball, but damn, Memphis is pretty much guaranteed to only win one or two games from now on in football.

Reunites them with Louisville though

[ukvols]

Originally Posted by CountVolcula

Need two Conferences

North and South

Every School above the 37th Parallel would be in the North, below would be in the South

Good idea. That's better than putting Louisville and Memphis in the West. All 12 schools would share the long road trips with a North/South configuration.

[DeerPark12]

Originally Posted by Aesius

I understand the implications for basketball, but damn, Memphis is pretty much guaranteed to only win one or two games from now on in football.

And every other sport that's not men's basketball. Doormat walking.

[KoachKletus]

Originally Posted by rebelvol

Love this idea, but it would not be fair AT ALL! South every time!

Not related,,but an FCS team (North Dakota State U) beat an undefeated southern team (Sam Houston) to take the FCS title last season.