War Memo­r­ial Sta­dium gets a new look

Changes abound, both at War Memo­r­ial Sta­dium and through­out the Moun­tain West Con­fer­ence. In Laramie there’s new box seats and a new look to the exte­rior of the sta­dium. In the Moun­tain West, a few teams are on the outs (Utah to and BYU to in 2011) – while some new blood is being added to the con­fer­ence (Boise State from the WAC and pos­si­bly Nevada and Fresno State, also from the WAC, in 2011).

War Memo­r­ial Sta­dium is enter­ing its’ 61^st year as home of Wyoming Cow­boys foot­ball. The newest facil­i­ties at the sta­dium are box seats on the east side of the stands. The project has taken over a year to com­plete and will be in full use this week­end to open the 2010 sea­son. Not only do the new boxes greatly increase the num­ber of lux­ury seats at the sta­dium, but there has also been addi­tions to increase the longevity of the stands on the east side and changes to have more access points for the fans convenience.

The Moun­tain West Con­fer­ence will be mak­ing ren­o­va­tions next sea­son as well. Utah has accepted an offer from the Pac-10 and will change con­fer­ences in 2011. BYU has also decided to leave the MWC. The Cougars will play foot­ball in the Inde­pen­dent league, but all of their other sports will com­pete in the WAC. The new blood com­ing into the MWC next sea­son is the foot­ball jug­ger­naut, Boise State Bron­cos. Not only will they bring some more atten­tion to them­selves in the national spot­light, but they will only increase the pres­tige of the Moun­tain West Con­fer­ence among other top con­fer­ences nation­ally. There could be even more teams brought into the con­fer­ence in the future, but noth­ing else has been set in stone.