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Denver Post: WAC Set To Change Course

The WAC is
exploring an option that would take the league into a future without
football beginning in 2013. 

Conference interim commissioner Jeff
Hurd stipulated this week the WAC must make a decision on a future
course in the next few weeks.  Hurd noted that the conference's board of
directors has a number of options available for consideration, one of
which would be to proceed as a nonfootball league.  The conference will
play the 2012 season as is, before being ripped apart with defections a
year from now. 

"We definitely have to have our plan for the
2013-14 year in place by the end of the summer," Hurd said. " In our
case, sooner is better than later." 

The University of Denver and
Seattle are joining the conference for the upcoming year as nonfootball
members.  The WAC will have an 18-game conference basketball schedule. 
DU's hockey program will remain in the Western Collegiate Hockey
Association. 

Hurd said he couldn't offer an opinion about the
most likely direction the conference will take beyond the upcoming
school year. 

"It's anyone's guess right now.  We're actively and
aggressively trying to make that determination," Hurd said. " Conference
alignment is a fluid situation across the board.  Change and change on
short notice seems like almost a daily occurrence.  It's definitely our
intent for the conference to continue well after the upcoming season." 

Read the quote in the article from the commissioner.  I'm not sure if he could have something that inspired less confidence in the future of the conference.  I'll be very disappointed if DU doesn't find another home.  Luckily, I have far more confidence in our school's leadership than I do of the WAC's.