The Big East is going through another painful breakup. San Diego State joined the list of schools leaving the conference (here’s a roundup) Wednesday, announcing its football program would remain in the Mountain West along with the rest of its sports in 2013. SDSU had committed to join the Big East as a football-only member; instead, it’ll be the third school — along with Boise State and TCU — to leave the conference without playing a conference game. Navy’s been an interested spectator throughout this process, watching its future conference add and subtract teams before the Mids join up as…
Browsing: Mountain West
Most of the conference realignment headlines have centered around the Big East, which formerly hosted Notre Dame in sports other than football and will host its first service academy — Navy — come 2015. But the Mountain West Conference, which has been Air Force’s home since the league’s inception, hasn’t been immune to such major changes: TCU left to join the Big East, then ended up in the Big 12 beginning this season. Boise State joined the MWC in 2011 and has already punched out to join the Big East in 2013. BYU left the football-conference game entirely, leaving the…
Consolidation. Improved “stability.” An “exciting new venture.” Sure, it sounds like the spin the military might put on the latest budget cuts, but it’s actually the spin the Mountain West Conference is putting on the latest college-conference shakeup: A merger of schools from the MWC and Conference USA to create an as-yet-unnamed superconference starting in 2013. Air Force will be a charter member of the new league, which is slated to have 16 football teams in its first season. According to the release, the superconference will look to expand to 18-24 teams and will be the first to set up…