Rating the MWC

Just completing its 10th year, how good is the Mountain West Conference overall?

According to the conference, it was very good this last year. On the league's website, a story said so with about 800 achievements (my exaggeration). Check it out at MWC.com.

The MWC was also among the leaders, conference-wise, with the Learfield Sports Director Cup's All-Sports Standings, which rated TCU 42nd out of 271 programs, and BYU 47th and Utah 51st.

In case your really want to know, Wyoming was ranked 192nd (last among the MWC schools). Rankings.

The ESPN.com author of the story -- Graham Watson -- also mentioned Boise State in the middle of ranking some of the league's schools. I'm not sure if Graham thinks Boise State is part of the MWC or I just mis-interpreted the sentence.

Or, as Rogers Clemens likes to say, maybe she mis-remembered which conference Boise State belongs to. ESPN.com link

Regardless, those rankings put the MWC in a favorable light, I guess.

I think the conference's recent BCS playoff proposal raised some awareness about the league as a whole, but in the end, it was rejected without much fanfare.

So, what do you think? Is the MWC making progress as a conference? I think most who are involved, whether you are a league official, athlete, coach, media or fan, think it is improving.

What does the rest of the country think about the MWC? Do other sports fans even know that it is a conference?

My guess is not much and not a lot.

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