Friday's WAC basketball notebook

The Mountain West Conference in July 2013 -- PTW thinks this is accurate:

* Air Force
* Colorado State
* Fresno State
* Hawaii (football only)
* Nevada
* New Mexico
* San Jose State University
* UNLV
* Utah State
* Wyoming

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Tony Jones writes that USU and SJSU will have the smallest athletic budgets in the Mountain West Conference.

Some factors in this cannot be magic wand changed, simply indicative of location, demographics, other sports franchises in the area (or not) and so on. There are limits to donations but it's impossible to tell when such has been reached.

Plus think about this: UNLV tops the league in $$$ but where has that gotten Rebel football? Ditto for New Mexico.

As for hoops, the Aggies are the poster program in bang-for-buck basketball.

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Josh Gershon has confirmed that 2012 CA prep backcourter Aaric Armstead will hit Hawaii as part of his recruiting journeys.

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From one of Andy Katz' latest posts: "The National Association of Basketball Coaches board of directors met with NCAA president Mark Emmert on Thursday in Indianapolis and, according to at least one source in the room, there is support to close up a few transfer loopholes. The coaches and Emmert discussed making any player who wants to transfer sit out a year, even if he or she has graduated and is seeking a waiver to play immediately at a school that has a graduate program that isn’t available at the current school. The discussion also turned to the waiver that allows a player to play immediately if a relative is ill. That, too, would be closed. The consensus among the coaches is that if anyone transfers, he should sit out a year, even if that means a sixth year in college. The coaches also wanted some sort of universal language on transfer restrictions, maybe even an NCAA rule that forbids transferring within a conference. Conferences and schools create their own policies on restricting transfer"

Somehow the part about coaches sitting out a season when they change jobs failed to make it to the agenda.