Fresno State and Nevada Leaving WAC / Update: Yes they will. News video, press conference
Looks like it.
UPDATE: UH AD Jim Donovan speaks about today's crazy day of events. (Where's WAC Commish Karl Benson btw???)
Fresno State officials have scheduled a news conference for 7:30 tonight to announce the school's expected move to the Mountain West Conference.This move comes as BYU is reportedly set to leave the MWC to become a football independent but WAC-affiliated in all other sports. With Fresno State and Nevada now leaving to the MWC, it's all still up in the air.
The Reno Gazette-Journal is reporting that Nevada also will accept the offer to join the MWC and that the university did not sign a reported $5 million buyout clause to get out of the Western Athletic Conference. The Reno newspaper also said that Nevada would hold its news conference at 7:30 p.m.
UPDATE: UH AD Jim Donovan speaks about today's crazy day of events. (Where's WAC Commish Karl Benson btw???)
posted by Tombo Ahi @ 8/18/2010 03:14:00 PM HST permalink
8 Comments:
At Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 6:23:00 PM HST,
Anonymous said…
Man this stinks...I think if Fresno and Reno leave then BYU won't want to come over for the other sports. The WAC will be down to six schools and no one to logically replace them. I hope this is not the end of the WAC.
At Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 6:28:00 PM HST,
Anonymous said…
By the way, love the blog! It's tough following UH football from the mainland and it's really nice to have a place to find all of the information I need.
At Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 6:39:00 PM HST,
Anonymous said…
^What he said.
Thanks for the blog! I'm in Seattle, but I still watch the games and listen to Bobby Curran and Robert Kekaula on the radio.
That said:
Holy crap, this sucks! Back when Boise was leaving it was said that the worst case scenario was if Fresno and Nevada opted to leave as well. I guess we're in that worst case scenario right now...
At Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 6:56:00 PM HST,
Tom in SJ said…
Fresno would have a lot of explaining to do to California tax payers if it did this without booster money.
At Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 7:22:00 PM HST,
Anonymous said…
This may be a death knell for our Warriors Football program.
At Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 9:02:00 PM HST,
Tombo Ahi said…
thanks guys. man, i can't blame him, but i don't think i've heard someone sound so futless at a press conference.
At Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 4:54:00 AM HST,
Anonymous said…
GO INDEPENDENT
At Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 10:37:00 AM HST,
Anonymous said…
Our football program is screwed now. The only way to save it would be us joining the MWC but that isnt going to happen so it looks like a our program is stepping 20 years backwards.
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