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Posted on: Sunday, April 11, 2004
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WAC braces for next round of realignment</span>
By
Ferd Lewis
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Advertiser Staff Writer
Just because the University of Hawai'i knows what conference it will be playing in a year from this summer doesn't mean UH knows who it will be playing when the 2005-06 school year arrives.
One way or another, indications are that the membership of the Western Athletic Conference, UH's home for the last quarter century, could be headed for additional reshuffling in the next three months.
The result could be as drastic as shrinking the width of the nation's most geographically dispersed Division I-A conference by more than 800 miles, slicing off the entire central time zone for the 2005-06 academic year, or as minor as adding one more school along its existing 4,035-mile, five time-zone span.
Everything between eight and 10-team models has been discussed at recent meetings, participants said. For example, if Louisiana Tech departs, options include adding North Texas or Idaho. Should Louisiana Tech remain, the conference will consider inviting North Texas or Louisiana-Lafayette.
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