Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson speaks during the Mountain West Football Media Day Tuesday, July 26, 2016, at Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @jeffscheid
I never took Craig Thompson for a stand-up comedian — those folks need to actually talk a lot, yes? — but the Mountain West commissioner still tried his hand at some material earlier this month. He said he had challenged the league to consider expansion, with or without losing current members to the Big 12 or any other Power 5 conference that might extend invitations.
Thompson soon backed off those comments, perhaps because someone in his office stopped laughing long enough to remind him about the state of the majority of football programs within his conference.