Editorial: WAC secessionists did right thing

Thursday, May 28, 1998 | 11:22 a.m.

It was the collective media of those schools bemoaning the loss of all-expense-paid road trips to Hawaii.

But for the secessionists, the loss of Waikiki Beach and Don Ho was a small price to pay -- actually, it was a large travel expense saved -- for the chance of forming a new conference with virtually all the trappings of the old one.

Other than a trade of four-letter schools -- UTEP for UNLV -- the new eight-team conference will look just as the old WAC did before Fresno State joined in 1992. It will retain the mighty BYU football program and uphold the basketball tradition of Utah, New Mexico and UNLV. More importantly, it only will have to divvy up the revenues those programs generate eight ways instead of 16.

The bottom line: Why settle for poi when you can have a bigger slice of financial pie?

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