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Denver to join WAC in 2012

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DU along with UT (San Antonio) and Texas State will join WAC in 2012. DU will not immediately join for football, as they have no team, but could eventually.

WAC becomes official clown car conference


Denver University, Texas-San Antonio and Texas State will join the WAC in 2012-13 to offset the departures of Boise State, Fresno State and Nevada to the Mountain West, multiple sources told ESPN.com.
UTSA, which still needs official approval from the board of regents, and Texas State will join in all sports. Denver will join for all sports except for football, since the Pioneers don't play at the FBS level.
The WAC will have eight football members, nine for men's and women's basketball. The WAC would have had six members in 2012-13 if nothing had been done with Hawaii, Louisiana Tech, Idaho, New Mexico State, Utah State and San Jose State.
An announcement is expected from the WAC on Thursday.
Montana could also join the WAC in all sports, especially if the Grizzlies decide to bump up from FCS to FBS in football. Montana, a FCS power, is expected to make a decision in the next few weeks. If the Grizzlies decide against the move then Seattle would likely step in with all sports except football.
The WAC's perfect scenario, according to multiple sources, is to get to nine football schools, including Montana and 10 basketball schools.
UTSA will start its football program as an FCS Independent in 2011. UTSA won't be in the Southland Conference in football that season. UTSA is then expected to make the jump to FBS football in 2012. UTSA will play in the Alamo Dome, home to the Alamo Bowl.
Texas State and UTSA will leave the Southland Conference and pay an estimated $250,000 per school exit fee. Denver, which has been in the Sun Belt since 1999-2000, won't have a penalty for leaving, according to sources.
The WAC's automatic berth to the NCAA tournament wasn't in jeopardy since the league had until 2014 to get to seven members.
The WAC was prepared to add BYU to its membership for all sports but football in late August before the MWC invited Fresno State and Nevada to block the move. BYU went independent in football but then chose to put the rest of its sports in the WCC.
Fresno State and Nevada wanted to leave the WAC for next season but struck a deal to stay until June 30, 2012, in exchange for paying a lower exit fee of $900,000 per school.
 
great move for DU. the Sun Belt was a joke for them....what does DU have in common in terms of student body, school orientation, and geography with Louisiana-Monroe? some of this is true in the WAC, and I think the WCC (West Coast Conference) would have been a great fit for DU (if the WCC was looking expansion) since you have small, theologically-based private schools, etc. Remember, DU started as a seminary.

While I'm a CC and CU guy/grad.....I've worked at DU and it's OK mostly.
 
I'm a University of San Diego grad (WCC school), my dad is a DU grad, there were rumours that Denver could be joining the WCC with BYU. BYU will join the WCC in all sports with their independence in football (no WCC football), I was selfishly hoping Denver would join the WCC so I'd get to see my Toreros in Denver ever year. For DU, the WAC is a vast improvement over the Sun Belt though. Go Toreros, Go Pios, Go Buffs.
 
The mighty pioneers will own New Mexico State in hockey!! Now they just have to bring back Denver Boone and I'll send them a check!!

:rock:
 
Hopefully they can get to the WCC eventually. That would be ideal, but would that even spark interest in their hoops program? The post had a pretty good article detailing the budget problems they've run into. Here's hoping the move to the WAC can stop at least some of the fiscal problems.
 
Football from like 1908.:smile2:

there was a time when CC-DU was one of the longest, continuous football rivalries west of the Mississippi. i remember reading that somewhere. Dutch Clark, something something.

DU does have a killer lacrosse stadium that I think CU should emulate for field hockey and soccer maybe for title IX purposes.
 
Good for the WAC, I hope Montana also joins. With the two Texas schools, I'm sure they will be able to keep Louisiana Tech mollified with the travel schedule. UTSA has the makings of being the next Boise or South Florida upstart-type program.Now, the State of Colorado has its biggest schools in all "western" conferences:pac-12 - CUMWC - CSU, AFAWAC - DUBig Sky - UNC
 
boone is back... i was at the first BC beat down and saw a costumed boone

Sweet! I love his giant paper mache head.

Boone80s.bmp
 
whooo. exciting news. i'm going to DU for grad school next year. i hope the other wac losers enjoy getting beat up in ice hockey :thumbsup:
 
DU is going to kill in hockey in that new conference :)

(any other school have a hockey program in the WAC???)
 
DU may still be in the WCHA for Hockey. But that confrence may dissolve because stupid Penn State may be adding Hockey giving the Big 10 (Little 11) enough teams to be their own confrence.
 
whooo. exciting news. i'm going to DU for grad school next year. i hope the other wac losers enjoy getting beat up in ice hockey :thumbsup:

right on re: grad school. the best place to eat around DU is Jerusalem on Evans. rip-snorting gyros. the Greek Omelet at Pete's Kitchen got me through a couple times, too.
 
DU may still be in the WCHA for Hockey. But that confrence may dissolve because stupid Penn State may be adding Hockey giving the Big 10 (Little 11) enough teams to be their own confrence.

Penn State is adding D-I hockey, though it'll be a few years before the teams are up and running...a single booster recently gave PSU something around $85,000,000 to start up a hockey program and build a hockey specific arena on campus The WCHA isn't going anywheres...even if it loses Wisconsin and Minnesota to the potential Big 10 hockey conference, it'll still have 10 schools...it's the CCHA which might have a little more trouble...they would lose Michigan, Michigan State, and Ohio State to the Big 10, but they would still have 8 schools...
 
Great for the WAC to add TSU and UTSA. Those are schools just like UCF and USF -- big and able to compete quickly. So much talent down that way they will thrive with 4th- and 5th-level recruits.
 
DU may still be in the WCHA for Hockey. But that confrence may dissolve because stupid Penn State may be adding Hockey giving the Big 10 (Little 11) enough teams to be their own confrence.

I'm fairly certain that the "WAC Hockey Champ" comments were in jest. at least I hope they were.

The WCHA isn't in danger of dissolving due to Penn State adding hockey, but certainly in danger of losing two (and maybe four) of their premiere members. Many believe that was exactly what they were planning for when they added Bemidji and UNO recently.

They have 12 teams now, and have AFA within their footprint (Atlantic member now), while also Alaska - Fairbanks could be an option as well.

Certainly the league would lose some of its star power, but if they can keep North Dakota, Denver, Colorado College, and St. Cloud together they will still have one of the power conferences in the country. There could be a battle over the Sioux if the Big Ten invites them, but most rumors have the Big Ten adding some combination of Miami (OH), Bowling Green, Western Michigan, and/or Notre Dame as hockey-only members for its league. Nebraska-Omaha would fit into the current "footprint" as well since the Cornhuskers don't sponsor hockey.

Of the remaining Big Ten teams, only Illinois and Indiana have programs that are even tier-I club programs (like Penn State recently was) to make a jump into fully sponsored programs. I cannot figure out why Northwestern doesn't make a harder effort for hockey in a city like Chicago? They, Purdue, and Iowa only have tier-2 club hockey.
 
Wow thanks guys all I had heard where rumours. Go Pioneer hockey and everything else Buffs!!
 
there was a time when CC-DU was one of the longest, continuous football rivalries west of the Mississippi. i remember reading that somewhere. Dutch Clark, something something.

DU does have a killer lacrosse stadium that I think CU should emulate for field hockey and soccer maybe for title IX purposes.
Mick - I believe that you are probably thinking of the CC-Mines football rivalry. Don't have the record book to look it up, but I do know it was one of the longest continuous rivalries west of the Mississippi. Dutch Clark played football at CC, and is somewhat of a local icon in Pueblo (where he is from) - the 13,000 seat high school stadium in Pueblo is Dutch Clark Stadium.

Go Tigers!!!!!!
 
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