Talk:Mountain West Conference

School type/religious affiliation
The religious affiliation or designation as "non-sectarian" is not so clear cut. For example, Duke University describes its ties with Methodism as "formal, on-going, and symbolic" while Wake Forest University maintains "a dedication to the values rooted in its Baptist heritage". Both schools can be considered "non-sectarian" in that they are no longer under the direct auspices of their founding religious organizations. Likewise, Boston College maintains its Jesuit identity in spite of the fact that it severed its formal ties with the Jesuit Order (and thereby the Catholic Church) in the 1960s when it was independently incorporated under a lay board of trustees. Unlike the Catholic University of America, which is under the direct auspices of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, or the University of Notre Dame, which is governed by "fellows" who must be priests of the Congregation of Holy Cross, The Trustees of Boston College (BC's governing body) operate independent of any religious jurisdiction. This arrangement is probably similar to that at Duke or Wake Forest, except that the BC trustees have voluntarily chosen to elect members of the founding religious organization to the presidency (though they are not required to do so). In fact, similar arrangements exist at other Jesuit colleges and universities, where both women and non-clerics have been elected to presidency (most recently at Georgetown University). All of this is to say that I think the nature of a school's religious affiliation is beyond the scope of this article, and that "public" or "private" suffice in the context of the members table. --24.63.125.78 10:25, 7 January 2006 (UTC)


 * 24.63.125.78 has coppied and pasted this on almost every college conference discussion board. Please refer to Talk:Atlantic Coast Conference so we can keep all the discussion in one place.  Thanks. -- Masonpatriot


 * This is clearly a moot point now in regards to the MWC. Since neither BYU nor TCU are members any more, all schools in the conference are state schools, except of course AFA, which is federal. None have any sort of religious affiliation whatsoever and never did.  Wschart (talk) 15:08, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Logos
There is a discussion to clarify our policy/guideline on the use of sports team logos. Please see Wikipedia_talk:Logos if you wish to participate in the discussion. Johntex\talk 16:36, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Conference Champs Tables
The MWC website list championship years as 2003-2004. Shouldn't the tables here reflect the school year? General125 17:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Formation of MWC
Is there information about the formation of the MWC? I came upon some reference to thw "infamous airport meeting" on another site. Is there any info on this?

User Box
Go here MWC Userbox for the latest MWC userboxes. General125 02:51, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

MWC Coaches Template
I created a MWC Coaches Template copy and paste   on the football coaches pages if any of them change. General125 03:40, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Endowments
There is a list of the endowments of the universities in the MWC. I am not clear on the relevance of this statistic in an athletic conference because these funds are used in a wide variety of non-athletic activities. I wanted to discuss here before removing. Thanks, Alanraywiki (talk) 20:20, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

UNM NCAA Tournament record
Something doesn't add up here, they are listed as having 11 appearances, but 12 losses. Since this is a single elimination tournament, the number of losses can't be more than the number of appearances. 69.29.207.109 (talk) 20:09, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Now I see they have it up to 12 appearances but 13 losses. The Lobo basketball page here has it at 11 and 11. So what is it? Wschart (talk) 01:44, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Possible Conference Expansion
I think it should be added that expansion is possible.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/06/07/mwc-expansion.ap/index.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Visnovsky (talk • contribs) 22:52, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Utah/BYU Rivalry and Beehive Boot
The Beehive Boot is not specifically the trophy for the winner of the BYU/Utah football rivalry. The article on the Beehive Boot points out that Utah State, Weber State, BYU, and Utah all complete for the Boot.

In practice, it is true that the winner of the BYU/Utah game generally wins the boot.

Hillshum|Talk 17:02, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Men and Women's Basketball Tournaments
It seems to me this page is so busy; the individual tournaments should have their own pages. I seem to remember building one for the Women's tournament-- trying to cram everything onto one page for a major conference just doesn't look good.

Quicksand24 (talk) 22:14, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Don't the tournaments have their own pages?--Jojhutton (talk) 22:49, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Proposal to make timelines more consistent
I noticed that conferences in List of NCAA conferences have articles, usually including a membership timeline. While some of the decisions made for each conference make some sense, there is a wide variety of styles for the various timelines, particularly involving color choices, but also other matters of style that could be more consistent.

for example, a school with a yellow bar means:
 * An associate member in one sport (if part of the BE)
 * A former member of the conference (in the SEC)
 * A future member of the conference (in the SEC and Big West)
 * A football only member (in the Sun Belt)
 * A team that has moved to another conference (in the WAC, NEC)
 * A full member of the Big Sky

Some graphs have captions, some do not, and none are centered. To see the variety of styles, review Current conference timelines

I think it would be worth discussing how best to provide some measure of consistency, recognizing that there may be legitimate reasons for some differences from a standard presentation (for example, some conferences show the name of the new conference for former members. In some cases, this makes sense, in other, it may not.)

I've produced a draft of how the timelines would look with some consistency added. Please see Draft proposal of conference timelines.

I propose a discussion to see if there is consensus on improving the consistency.

Because it would not be practical to have this discussion on each and every conference talk page, I suggest centralizing this discussion at the Talk page of Project College football SPhilbrick  (Talk)  15:02, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

Standardize facility sections
See the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College baseball.

Discussion about overview maps for US collegiate athletic conferences
A discussion on the Project College Football talk page has been created to discuss the proper format of the overview maps that are used for the US collegiate athletic conference pages.

If you're interested, please join the discussion here: Athletic conference overview maps and their lack of consistency

the mtn
How can there be no mention of the mtn and its contributions to the demise of the conference and especially the unhappiness at BYU and Utah that they could not replay games. Bloodzeed (talk) 19:09, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

This is a good question. The MWC Wikipedia page is completely unbalanced and does not provide the context for Utah and BYU's desire to leave the conference because of the horrible TV deal and the failure of the MWC and the mtn to honor their promise that rebroadcasting games would be allowed. That the mtn only continued for 1 year after those teams left is also not mentioned. --Trödel 01:12, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

Utah State
Map needs updating in infobox. Utah State officially joined the conference on 1 July 2013, so Utah should be colored purple. DavidSteinle (talk) 08:09, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

College basketball team navboxes
Please join discussion at the College Basketball Wikiproject for forming a consensus on the creation of a basic navbox for college basketball teams. CrazyPaco (talk) 06:21, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Map Legend Incomplete
Not sure if I'm missing it, but it seems that there are more colors being used on the membership map than then legend dictates? I'd fix it, but someone would just have to fix my "fix." Ommnomnomgulp (talk) 03:28, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

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Hawaii included?
At the top of the page, it lists all of the states that have Mountain West teams, and Hawaii is included even though they only play in the conference in football. I don't think they should be included, since football is the only sport. Isthmus55 (talk) 23:23, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Late response, but it is standard to include any state that participates in the conference in any sport. Hawaii participates in football in the MWC, and therefore Hawaii has a MWC team. Porter  land  16:29, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Further membership changes
This section discusses in great detail the potential moves of Gonzaga to the MWC and SDSU leaving the MWC. Considering Gonzaga never joined and the SDSU situation ended with them not leaving, this section seems too detailed in chronologically breaking down moves that never ended up happening. Plus the headline is about further membership changes, when none have occurred or are scheduled to occur as of July 2023. 69.181.221.254 (talk) 15:26, 19 July 2023 (UTC)