Deletion of History of Western Athletic Conference football

Comment: The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is undoubtedly notable.  Taking that as a given, this AfD presents two questions: (1) is the history of WAC also notable; and (2) if the history of the WAC is notable, does the conference's history need or require a stand-alone Wikipedia article?  Given the amount of historical information in the main WAC article, and the duplication of information provided in the stand-alone history article, I believe that the stand-alone history article is unnecessary.  My strong suggestion is to merge the non-duplicative information of this article to the history section of the main WAC article and provide reliable source footnotes for all facts presented per  and 
Stance: merge
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Verifiability (WP:V||WP:RS)