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Mountain West Conference To Expand and Add Boise State, Fresno and*Nevada? - Mountain West Connection
Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton -- a talk radio host in San Diego -- is reporting huge news out of Washington DC.If it were guaranteed that they would get an auto-bid the MWC would pull the trigger in a heartbeat. Interesting that they are talking about expanding to 12 teams, to have a championship game. Maybe ESPN knows about this, and are is negotiations to broadcast the league once they expand? (If they expand) Which maybe could explain all the added publicity that they are giving the league.These rumors are everywhere out of the nations capital. There are negotiations between the people for the BCS as well as the Mountain West Conference. If the Mountain West wants to get a guaranteed spot in the BCS they must expand. The expansion would include Boise State, Nevada-Reno and Fresno State. Make it a power twelve team conference.
Adding Fresno State would help the MWC take the Northern California market, and the Boise State Broncos would certainly add more competition. It's interesting that Nevada is a possibility. Maybe they are looking at them for basketball reasons?
If these rumors are true, look for expansion to happen in the summer of 2010, by July 1st. That is the deadline for the teams to play in the league in 2011, the final year of the BCS evaluation period.
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