"Could have cut a deal!"

At the risk of infuriating readers of this blog who may be BYU sports fans, I quote from The Deseret Morning News:

"What [Mountain West Conference Commissioner] Craig Thompson had to say to [talk show host] David Locke earlier this week has created still more bad feelings toward the Mountain West Conference and its television partners — although perhaps not entirely for the right reasons. [Thompson] told the always-entertaining Locke on KFNZ-AM 1320 that the conference could have cut a deal to put The mtn. on the Dish satellite system in the seven Western states that comprise the MWC footprint — but was holding out for a national deal."

The Scott Pierce column can be read in its entirety here.