Boise State President Says Everything's in Order to Join Big West

Olympic recaps are coming, I promise, as is women's soccer previews and schedule for Week 1.  This kind of takes higher priority considering I'm probably one of the last people to be writing about it (and that's a shame since it is a Big West blog).

To summarize, according to the Idaho Statesman, Kustra said that financial commitments from Boise State and the Big East has helped the Broncos convince the Big West to let them join.  While the article goes more into detail about the whole process of how this happened, still no actual monetary figure has been mentioned and no vote has taken place.  Three things concern me out of this:

1. Kustra knows he had to say something about this situation before the start of school.  Either he's hoping he's right, or he really is, but the bottom line, until we see a complete formal vote, Boise State is not in the Big West yet.

2. Remember that he said this to the news media, which means that in today's social media, everyone knows about it by now.  Suppose the Broncos don't get the necessary votes?  This is something, that while not might cost Kustra his job, to put it in the gambler's perspective: he put too many chips on the table for what looks to be a push.

3. All that being said, it's really the Cal State schools that Boise State has to worry about.  If he convinced either Long Beach or Fullerton, then this vote will be a yes, as I am fairly confident that Northridge, Fullerton and Long Beach would be the "no" votes due to the Cal State financial fiasco.

If everything that the Statesman reported is true, then the Big West should be happy, because there could be a couple of hefty TV deals coming their way as also an unmentioned Big East/West basketball partnership.  A media rights deal with Time Warner Cable could easily bring more exposure to the under-exposed Big West.  We're not talking Pac12 network type money, but we are talking more media coverage of an entertaining non-football conference.  The Big East's hiring of former executive VP of CBS Sports Mike Aresco, also should make this very interesting as well, not only from a new TV deal for the Big East, but because of SDSU/BSU's potential conference ties with the Big West, also could make a sweet small partnership as I've speculated above.

First things first, we have to see if Kustra's media talking gamble pays off...if it doesn't he might want to be looking to focus on other things before he opens up again.

H/T to Mountain West Connection's Jeremy Mauss for bringing this article to my attention.

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