The only commissioner in conference history is stepping down in December.
Craig Thompson has been commissioner of the Mountain West Conference longer than there has been a Mountain West Conference.
It was so long ago that at the time, Brigham Young, TCU and Utah were all a decade away from departing.Our view: The move has much less to do with realignment threats than with Thompson seeing his vision of an expanded playoff come to fruition — he was an architect of the 12-team model — and with the massive change coming to college athletics in the form of NCAA restructuring and revenue sharing with the athletes.All those issues will be priorities for Thompson’s replacement.
— Given the current environment, the Mountain West should strongly consider candidates with deep existing relationships in college football. The conference might experience membership turnover , and the ability to back-channel, to have contacts you can trust, will be vital. Three names immediately come to mind as pantheon candidates, each with loads of industry experience in the western third of the country: Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne , Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens and Pac-12 deputy commissioner Jamie Zaninovich.
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