... border="0">There has been a whole lot of congratulatory backslapping in the media for Craig Thompson for his Mountain West Conference's strafing run on the Western Athletic Conference.

MWC fans are celebrating wildly and proclaiming that this has ended BYU's dreams of independence and has removed the WAC from consideration.

I think this is a basic misunderstanding of how conference realignment works in general and deep misunderstanding of why BYU is considering the independent route.

 

The MWC no longer does it for BYU

BYU is the big dog of the non-BCS ranks.  They have the largest football game day average attendance of BCS non-AQ conference members with...

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