A shout out to jediwarrior...I know you've grown frustrated by some things (in this case, a TV contract), but as I read this, I thought, what would it be like to walk in his shoes?

Quote:None of the WAC's six original members is (sic) still in the league...The conference that almost shut down a decade ago is now shutting people up. "It's been a journey, for sure," Karl Benson, WAC commissioner since 1994, said. "A political journey; a legal journey. And the WAC is still standing. And some people are still surprised that I'm standing."...in 1997...Benson went to Congress and claimed major college football was a monopoly in the wake of one-loss Brigham Young not being invited to a major bowl game..."I'm representing my membership, and was obligated to testify that a couple of my commissioner colleagues conspired to keep BYU out," Benson recalled. "I am standing there thinking this is career suicide I'm committing."...in 1999, Benson learned of...eight of the top football schools defecting to form the Mountain West...while he was recovering at home following eye surgery. He said the mutiny "took the heart right out of the WAC, figuratively and geographically." Had the Mountain West been able to also lure either Fresno State or Hawaii, Benson says, "I don't know if the WAC could have survived."

There's still work to be done, no doubt, but things could be a whole heck of a lot worse.

LINK: Chris Dufresne, LA Times

Good read CL. Yep...some of Karl's "commissioner colleagues" are now the heads of the BCS Cartel. They pulled off the ultimate "scam".

Personally, I like the new WAC way better than the old. The new WAC is leaner and meaner and there's a lotta star-power in the conference now. Two Heisman hopefuls in 2006...and in 2007...there willl be three. :)

When in history has that ever happened to the "old" WAC?

I'll take the new WAC.