re: Why would Boise State put their program in the Big East

Actually travel wouldn't be all that bad for football only. Assuming an 8-game schedule, we would have 4 regional OOC opponents (already have a 12-year series with BYU), and 4 games at home, so we're only traveling back east for 4 games, and even then if Air Force, Houston and/or SMU were invited, that could make travel even less of an issue.

It sounds like the WAC is interested in taking our other sports. Fun fact nobody will care about but I'll say anyway, our wrestling program is in the Pac-12.

But yes, BCS access and access to better bowls is a huge, huge plus, as is better competition. Every Boise State fan is tired of blasting away the conference teams we're locked into playing. Hopefully if we join the Big East + a better OOC schedule, we'll have a very solid schedule in the future, which would really energize our fanbase like never before.