joshvanklomp said:
Geographically, I'm fine with UTEP and NMSU, but wonder if the other Texas schools and into Louisiana would be getting too far east.
Unless there was a shift, where the west division split off completely and schools in the Mountain Division then joined the Texas teams.
I know the attitude around here towards them and I know it will never happen, but I always thought we profiled better with schools like Montana and Montana State than we do with Fresno or Hawaii.
Yeah lifting the Montana or Dakota schools up to Wyoming level would never make sense as being good for wyo. or the conference.
The idea should be how does the conference Wyoming plays in place itself as the closest thing possible to the power conferences. That needs schools with the highest potential. A way for the school to create top teams.
if this conference doesn't strengthen itself it will wait and find itself stripped when the power conferences ever make another change, esp if it's something to do with the PAC 12 and or Texas and a few of those schools.
What if other conferences need a new member or 2 and look at mwc schools? We need to make sure losing 2 or 4 of these don't break up the low standing we have now. I assume other conferences would look at mwc teams like:
1- unlv, nm
3- boise, San Diego
4-fsu maybe the rest from there.
Houston would have more elite potential in football than any team currently. Even Boise. The big inprovment my conference idea adds for football potential is a 3 game bracket adding sos power.
Basketball would have a top 5 program in the country with Gonzaga. What they've done has been amazing. They'll keep getting better too
The goal for the conference in basketball is higher than settling in as the 6th best football conference. In basketball the goal is to stand with the top group.
I think what Gonzaga has done is miraculous and almost impossible to repeat. But you try to repeat it anyway. By following its model. This is how we choose the non football schools to add to the conference
Location/market/fan base potential: Spokane is a pretty big market with no pro sports. Washington state had never been a basketball power. I'm not sure I can think of a really relatable market without fb teams. El Paso? So since I can't find that mid market I want to go only big.
I really want an LA presence. I like Long Beach state as a high potential school with our conference pulling them above all those other schools in ca. I personally like Pepperdine as the other high potential if they were willing to commit a lot more money.
We just need a conference that everyone realizes is in the west there's the PAC and the big 12 and there's the mwc/wac/whatever and then that's it. All the other schools would be at a bigger gap down than they are now
