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Boise State Joins Mountain West Conference

playerpress.com Written by playerpress.com, Friday June 11 2010
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The Mountain West Conference confirmed on Friday that Boise State is leaving the Western Athletic Conference and joining the MWC.

 

"We are pleased and excited to welcome Boise State University to the Mountain West Conference," Commissioner Craig Thompson said in a news release.

 

"Since our inception just 11 short years ago, the Mountain West has experienced tremendous success, and the addition of Boise State will further enhance that strength. The MWC continues to strategize regarding potential membership scenarios and bringing Boise State into the Conference is an important part of that evolution."

 

Boise State is the second university that has joined the Mountain West in the past six years after TCU was added in 2005. The MWC was founded with eight teams in 1998.  

Boise State joins Air Force, Brigham Young, Colorado State, New Mexico, San Diego State, TCU, UNLV, Utah, and Wyoming in the conference.

 

The move was expected and the WAC is moving forward and there is no bitterness between the conference and Boise State because of the move.

 

The WAC is keeping its options open as well and looking for schools and there are five or six from the Football Championship Series that the conference is keeping an eye on.

 

Boise State football coach Chris Petersen, who has a 49-4 record and has won three WAC titles in four years, said that they are not changing the game plan or their goals because of the change in conferences.


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