Mountain West Commissioner Gloria Nevarez

[El Paso Eagle]

Gloria Nevarez: The Mountain West is at 12 Teams but 14 to 16 Teams Is the Sweet Spot

Also has some comments about Olympics sports playing in "regions" that could include other conferences

 

[UNTcrazy727]

They obviously didn't feel that way a couple years ago when they had the chance to take UNT, UTSA, and Rice but declined. That's going to come back to haunt them. 

[NT80]

She is afraid of the MWC getting bypassed with these available Pac schools still needing a home.  

[VideoEagle]

2 hours ago, UNTcrazy727 said:

They obviously didn't feel that way a couple years ago when they had the chance to take UNT, UTSA, and Rice but declined. That's going to come back to haunt them. 

Remember, AF, Colorado State, and at least one other were very adamant they didn’t want to have a conference member in the Central or Eastern time zones. It’s not that they didn’t want to expand, they only wanted to expand in their time zones. Now there are some potential expansion targets in their time zones

[Wag Tag]

Who??

[Mean Green 93-98]

6 minutes ago, Wag Tag said:

Who??

The Mountain West Conference.  They formed out of the better teams in the old WAC.  They've been a pretty solid conference.

[UNTX]

53 minutes ago, VideoEagle said:

Remember, AF, Colorado State, and at least one other were very adamant they didn’t want to have a conference member in the Central or Eastern time zones. It’s not that they didn’t want to expand, they only wanted to expand in their time zones. Now there are some potential expansion targets in their time zones

That’s not how I recall it.  AF and CSU were FOR it as they wanted schools in the central time zone and especially in Texas for recruiting. The MWC looked at UNT, UTSA, and Rice and had the media partners run the numbers.  Craig Thompson, the commissioner at the time said it wouldn’t result in enough incremental value.