Inside December 2010, Hawaii finally acquired a bid becoming a football-only member with the Mountain West Convention and later acquired conference membership for many other sports inside the Big West Convention. This gave Hawaii the opportunity to follow fellow American Athletic Conference (WAC) members out the entranceway to the Pile West (Boise Express, Fresno State, and also Nevada). Even though the WAC was teetering about life support, the Mountain West was an important shot in the arm for the program while reuniting the particular Warriors with standard foes like Wyoming, San Diego Express and Air Push. While BYU, Utah and TCU have been gone, the remaining universities were unlikely to look anywhere.

But very conferences threaten to be able to upset this fresh found stability. By leaving the particular Big XII to get a potential SEC invites, Texas am yet again set a prospective domino effect inside motion Sports Helmets. Worst circumstance scenario, Oklahoma as well as other schools could abandon the Big XII as well as the remaining schools just like Kansas State, Baylor and Iowa State help keep the Big XII covering intact while selectively picking a portion of the particular Mountain West schools ahead onboard. While schools just like Boise State and also Colorado State could be targeted in this kind of scenario, Hawaii definitely would not become. With the PAC-12 unlikely to look after any Pile West schools, one more scenario would in fact strengthen the Pile West.