Ferd Lewis writes how Boise State is working to join the MWC and get it into the BCS

Ferd Note: "Boise State President Bob Kustra has been panting to get the Broncos in the MWC, repeatedly wishing out loud "... it would be a good match for us." He's written letters to MWC members in a campaign for inclusion. Moreover, BSU has joined with the nine MWC schools in hiring a Washington, D.C., attorney to at least represent the school, "in matters of the BCS, particularly as we have been asked to testify in Washington, D.C., at hearings this past summer," according to a BSU spokesman."

Ferd Note: "The six automatic conferences each receive approximately $19 million in BCS receipts annually. That will go up to $24 million with the 2010 TV contract. Compare that with the $5 million — or less — ceiling the non-guaranteed conferences can make and you sense the MWC's urgency. Trouble is the BCS big boys are loathe to share their spoils and — short of congressional bludgeoning — the only way to crack the lineup is by a complicated formula more secretly held than the Bush baked beans recipe. Under it, a conference that achieves enough Top 25 finishes can, theoretically, post a power index meriting guaranteed status.

There is considerable thought that if BSU goes to the BCS this year, the MWC could, by extending BSU an invitation by July 1, 2010, use BSU's last two Top 25 finishes to pump up its four-year rolling average for 2011, when automatic berths are doled out. Which could mean bye, bye blue in 2011."

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