Utah State to Join NCAA’s Mountain West Conference

Utah State has signed the paperwork needed to join the College sports conference Mountain West Conference.

A news conference Friday is expected to announce the deal.

As was previously reported by the Tribune on Sunday, arthritis USU’s matriculation to the MWC has been a foregone conclusion for almost a week. The Aggies will play this upcoming season in the Western Athletic Conference and will join the Mountain West, viagra buy along with San Jose State, viagra sale in time for the 2013 season.

In doing so, USU will renew old rivalries with schools such as Colorado State and Wyoming. Utah State and San Jose State’s move is likely to serve as a crippling blow to the WAC as a viable football conference as it will be left with just two football-playing schools — New Mexico State and Idaho.

Once in the Mountain West, Utah State also will be reunited with old WAC foes Nevada, Fresno State and Hawaii, all of which will compete in the MWC this upcoming season.

Jeff Hurd, the WAC’s interim commissioner, released a statement on Monday morning.

“The Western Athletic Conference Board of Directors is well aware of the changing landscape in Division I athletics and has been in discussion about it for the last several weeks.

“Further, it continues to evaluate the impact upon the WAC and is closely engaged in evaluating its membership options. It will not speculate relative to those options, but it has confidence that the WAC will maintain its more than 50-year history as a pre-eminent Division I conference.”