You can go home again. After over 40 years since leaving the WCC, Pacific is on their way back. The lone private school, and smallest school in the Big West is leaving their confines in the California based conference and joining the all-private WCC. The move will further solidify the California Bay Area as a […]

They waited until the deadline, but an official announcement is expected soon that BYU will join the WCC for all sports excluding football. The football program would participate as an independent. The rationale for BYU leaving the MWC has publicly been their discontent with the current Mountain West television contracts. However, the MWC has been […]

As I’ve covered in the past few articles, it’s been turbulent times for the WAC and Mountain West conferences. The series of developments resembled that of a national government coup in a developing country. The WAC was on the verge of bringing in the strongest MWC school, despite excluding football, and about to deal a […]

Seattle University’s dreams of returning to NCAA Division I athletics won’t happen in the West Coast Conference — at least not in the immediate future. WCC commissioner Michael Gilleran has informed Seattle U officials that conference presidents have decided against any expansion now or in the foreseeable future, all but ending the Redhawks’ hopes of […]

A Look Back at Conference Realignment 2003 -1/21/04 In the fall of 1999, this site, a unique meeting place for those interested in the topic of NCAA conference realignment was formed for fans from across the country to discuss the potential scenarios of conference realignment. Without any bells and whistles, without even a website domain […]

The Conference Realignment & Expansion Chronicles – 5/12/03 -by Matthew Peloquin Over the past few weeks every major publication has included their predictions as to how the recent conference expansion rumors will play out. For the past 3 years, we’ve all participated on the Conference Realignment and Expansion Forum, making it the most popular and regularly […]