by Irv Moss
The WAC is
exploring an option that would take the league into a future without
football beginning in 2013.
Conference interim commissioner Jeff
Hurd stipulated this week the WAC must make a decision on a future
course in the next few weeks. Hurd noted that the conference's board of
directors has a number of options available for consideration, one of
which would be to proceed as a nonfootball league. The conference will
play the 2012 season as is, before being ripped apart with defections a
year from now.
"We definitely have to have our plan for the
2013-14 year in place by the end of the summer," Hurd said. "In our
case, sooner is better than later."
The University of Denver and
Seattle are joining the conference for the upcoming year as nonfootball
members. The WAC will have an 18-game conference basketball schedule.
DU's hockey program will remain in the Western Collegiate Hockey
Association.
Hurd said he couldn't offer an opinion about the
most likely direction the conference will take beyond the upcoming
school year.
"It's anyone's guess right now. We're actively and
aggressively trying to make that determination," Hurd said. "Conference
alignment is a fluid situation across the board. Change and change on
short notice seems like almost a daily occurrence. It's definitely our
intent for the conference to continue well after the upcoming season."
5 comments:
This plan might work if they can poach some "name brand" schools into the conference.
If you can entice Gonzaga, other weatern based hoops-centric schools would fall into place pretty quickly.
Thanks, Irv, for mentioning the hockey program in an article that has nothing to do with them. Oh and not taking an opportunity to mention the NCHC. FANTASTIC REPORTING!
What did he do, write that article from his La-Z-Boy drunk on Michelob Ultra?
I prefer tequila for my nonsense but I don't pretend anything I write is intellectual by printing it in a newspaper.
I hope the WAC makes some big strides otherwise DU had best bail and consider taking legal action against them if they cannot get into a decent, local, competitive DI conference.
Read the quote in the article from the commissioner. I'm not sure if he could have something that inspired less confidence in the future of the conference. I'll be very disappointed if DU doesn't find another home. Luckily, I have far more confidence in our school's leadership than I do of the WAC's.
DU wants another home for sure.
Who wants us is the question.
Change course, sounds like folding to me. The WAC will fold after 2012-13. There is little doubt.
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