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During the Mountain West media days, Boise State got welcomed into their new conference by not being able to wear their all blue uniform during conference games this season. Head coach Chris Peterson wasn’t thrilled about the news.
“I thought it was ridiculous,” Petersen said of his reaction. “… That’s our colors.…
BYU has been the top of the 2010 recruiting class in the Mountain West and ranked thirteenth the NCAA according to Scout. In the past week in a half BYU has verbal commits from four new players; which brings their total to nineteen.
Manu Mulitalo is a local recruit from West Valley, UT and is a three star offensive lineman. One interesting story about Mulitalo is that he still doesn’t know all the schools that offered, but does know of at least three: Navy, Washington State and, of course, BYU. Apparently his Dad was keeping that info from him.
However if you check Rivals, his list included USC, UCLA, Washington, Washington State, UNLV, and Utah.
Pac-10 Commissioner, or also known as cranky old man, and hard core traditionalist had some parting shots in an interview with the LA Times in a question and answer session.
The question of interest to the Mountain West was this one:
“Q: The Pac-10 has been the Pac-10 since 1978. What about expansion?
A: You expand a conference to extend your television imprint in football, to get greater football TV rights, and there just aren’t any members close by that would do that for us. There are not enough TV homes in Utah and any institution within our footprint would only be a negative because you’d be dividing up the same money more ways.”