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Date Posted: 07/17/03 6:10pm
Author: Harry" Fox Shmooze" PTesties
Author Host/IP: 152.163.252.195
Subject: Re: You sure it's not from Matt Druge?..........
In reply to: BMF 's message, "El Paso Newspaper (home of UTEP) dis's BWC" on 07/16/03 11:21am

>I thought this was relevant given that Cal Poly will
>be playing UTEP in a couple months. The article is
>about WAC conference re-alignment..., not BWC
>realignment.
>
>Here's the link:
>
>http://www.mattdruge.com

..........because if it is, it must be true!

>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>-------------------------
>
>If UTEP is unable to realign with old conference
>mates, such as New Mexico and BYU, its next best
>option would be to head east.
>
>Well, pray it's invited east.
>
>It's because the western side of the geographically
>axed-in-two WAC is composed of schools whose lineage
>goes back to the inferior Big West.
>
>Here are three points:
>
>1.) UTEP's true home is with the old WAC: New Mexico,
>BYU, Utah, Colorado State and Wyoming. Those are the
>opponents UTEP fans pay to see. They bring out
>passion, especially New Mexico and BYU.
>
>But it doesn't seem likely to happen. After all, they
>dumped UTEP when they left the WAC to form the
>Mountain West.
>
>2.) With conference reorganization supposedly coming
>-- at least by 2005 -- there is serious talk that some
>east WAC members will dump the west and form a new
>conference. They don't need the west. SMU and Rice
>were once members of the legendary Southwest
>Conference. Their fans and rich alumni aren't
>passionate about west WACers.
>
>So it's only logical, then, that SMU and Rice get
>together with two other ex-SWC teams, TCU and Houston
>of Conference USA. Keep present east WAC members UTEP,
>Tulsa and Louisiana Tech. But UTEP gets in only if New
>Mexico State comes along as its traveling partner. No
>sense flying 800 miles from Houston to play just UTEP.
>Get two league games. Save travel money.
>
>SMU and TCU would be a one-flight, two-game stop, too.
>So would Rice-Houston. Louisiana Tech-Tulsa would be a
>puddle-jump flight of 280 miles.
>
>That's eight teams. So add North Texas for nine, then
>there will be balanced conference football schedules
>-- four home and four away games a year.
>
>It would be a league recognized by the whole country
>because of SMU-TCU and Rice-Houston.
>
>3.) Being in the western WAC would be like being
>abandoned a second time.
>
>Or third.
>
>When UTEP's Border Conference folded in 1961, the
>MIners were not invited to join the WAC -- a merge
>between the Border and Skyline Conferences.
>
>UTEP and Colorado State finally got in six years
>later.
>
>When the WAC started big-time expansion -- taking in
>littler Big West schools and the easterns -- the old
>WAC bolted and didn't invite UTEP to join the new
>Mountain West.
>
>Now, if an eastern WAC reorganization doesn't take in
>UTEP, the Miners would be left with the schools both
>the MWC and new league abandoned: Hawaii, Boise State,
>Fresno State and San Jose State.
>
>If the east does form a new conference without UTEP,
>the western WAC (which now includes Nevada), would
>likely have to to bring in New Mexico State and Utah
>State to have eight members.
>
>And UTEP would find itself in New Mexico State's old
>league -- the Pacific Coast Conference which turned
>into the Big West, which dropped football because most
>football-playing schools were promoted to the WAC --
>then dumped.
>
>Bet UTEP is lobbying hard to rejoin New Mexico and
>BYU.
>
>But Plan 2, sticking in Texas, isn't a bad alternative.

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