Boise State beats deadline, will leave Mountain West

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June 30, 2012 - 7:34 pm

As expected, Boise State sent its letter of resignation to the Mountain West Conference on Saturday, UNLV president Neal Smatresk said.

The letter arrived ahead of a midnight Saturday deadline for Boise State to notify the MWC of whether the school intended to follow through on its plan to leave the conference after the 2012-13 academic year - primarily for the football team to move to the Big East Conference.

Boise State was already due to forfeit $2.5 million in future revenue as a penalty for exiting the conference beginning in 2013-14. However, had the school not met the deadline, it would have had to pay an additional $5 million penalty.

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