When the Mountain West Conference -- long a proponent of a playoff system and/or an automatic bid -- signed on the dotted line to extend the BcS agreement, there were many media types who were critical of the conference seemingly taking the easy way out.
While the critics may indeed have a valid point, MWC commissioner Craig Thompson said signing the agreement was a necessary evil, and a step that needed to be taken in order to continue the fight against BcS inequities.
Thompson also knows that, in order to change the system, he “needs to get everyone involved”, from the other conferences to the bowls to the television networks.
Part of winning others over, Thompson says, is to continue the winning ways the upper-echelon of the conference has created in recent years.
Thompson added, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, that successful programs make it easier to “stick up for ourselves” and keep “fighting for our guys.”
It would also help, Mr. Thompson, if the officials running the BcS didn’t have their heads shoved so far up their collective...
