LAS CRUCES — New Mexico State’s leadership finds itself in another college sports realignment trickle down nearly a decade after the Western Athletic Conference dissolved as a football conference.The WAC has survived, even bringing back football at the FCS level with quality programs at that level in the southwest and Texas. But as the American Athletic Conference announced on Thursday the addition of UAB, UTSA, North Texas, Florida Atlantic, Charlotte and Rice to begin play at a date to be named later, schools such as Liberty, James Madison and New Mexico State have suddenly been mentioned by national writers.
New Mexico State hopes that realignment leads to opportunity
