There hasn’t been any program movement from one conference to another, and it’s likely we won’t see sure-fire signs of that happening until the Big Ten shoots the first huge signal into the sky later this summer.

But that hasn’t stopped other conferences from scurrying about and getting downright primal on the matter.

The Pac-10 has openly discussed expansion, and now the Mountain West is forced to consider the same. The poaching has a predictable ripple effect on the landscape of college sports. This is all about football, but the basketball conferences will be affected as well, so it’s worth posting here.

The Denver Post has a brief story on the infant stages of the MWC’s plans to realign and reassign itself whenever the big-boy conferences deem it

MWC commissioner Craig Thompson emphasized Wednesday that any discussion is unrelated to speculation about other conference movement. As for candidates to join the MWC fold, Thompson said “It’s not even that developed.”

For all the speculation the Pac-10 might grab a MWC school or two or a domino shift could send TCU to the Big 12, Thompson said no president has heard from another conference.

A logical move, but we’re seeing the slow, quiet falling of the dominoes here. No president will speak on the record about other programs moving from one place to another, but I promise you there’s a lot they know that we won’t get the pleasure of knowing for quite some time.

And there are schools eagerly looking to bolt on a conference right now that won’t get the chance to, and we’ll never know about that, either.

The Mountain West is a fringe league, like the A10, but it’s got football, which the A10 doesn’t. Because of that, the MWC is trying to move hard to be considered a seventh BCS type of school. To do that, it’ll have to kick out a cellar dweller or two.

Possible expansion on mind of MWC presidents {Denver Post}

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