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Lot's of craze mid-major conference realignment going on this week.

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patdog

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It hasn't been discussed here, but it looke like the MWC torpedoed BYU's plans to leave the MWC to be an independent in football and a member of the WAC in all other sports when the MWC called an 11PM press conference to announce it had raided the WAC and taken Fresno St. and Nevada. With the WAC in shambles, BYU cancelled its press conference for the next morning and it looks like they may be forced to stay in the MWC.

Then today, there are rumors that the MWC and CUSA are trying to work a semi-merger where the two league champions would meet in a playoff game with the winner getting an automatic BCS bid.

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than joining with the CUSA champion. If the MWC does add Fresno, Nevada, and Boise, and they keep BYU and maybe add Hawaii, it'll be a strong enough league on its own to have an argument for a 7th bid in 2014.

BYU, TCU, Fresno, Nevada, Hawaii, and Boise would be a fairly solid top of the conference, and it would put them on par with some of the lesser BCS leagues in my opinion.
 
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That would give them 12 teams (assuming BYU now has no option but to stay) and they'd be a shoe-in for a BCS bid. The only real advantage to a semi-merger with CUSA is that it might give them some leverage with the current automatic qualifying conferences to basically say, here's your chance to take one more team and be done forever with BCS expansion. If they take the MWC only, it leaves the door open for CUSA to start bitching about not having a berth. If they take the MWC-CUSA playoff winner, there's really nobody else on the horizon who could even make a claim for a spot.
 
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Word is BYU and what's left of the WAC are highly pissed about it. The WAC had all agreed to stay together and each school had signed an agreement to pay a $5M exit fee if they left, but somehow Nevada never got around to actually signing the agreement. The WAC commissioner says the hell with that, we still had a verbal contract, and is planning to try to get the $5M from Nevada anyway.

Now the WAC is left with only 6 schools. You have to have 7 to be recognized as an NCAA I-A football conference. That conference could be on its last legs. Even if they can survive, it doesn't look like there's any way they wouldn't still be the weakest conference in I-A.
 
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But yes a WAC without Fresno, Nevada, or Boise would be about as weak as the Sun Belt. It would make a run for it.

Hawaii, San Jose State, La. Tech, Idaho, New Mexico State, and Utah State is pretty awful. I would bet on La. Tech jumping ship for the Sun Belt if this all goes down, and the WAC will disolve. CUSA may pick up Hawaii, but the others would be done.
 
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