LAS VEGAS »Despite college football’s changing landscape, the University of Hawaii football team will have a home in the Mountain West Conference, league commissioner Craig Thompson said on Tuesday.

The Rainbow Warriors are the MWC’s lone football-only member. Most of UH’s other sports, including women’s volleyball and both basketball teams, compete in the Big West Conference.

There has been speculation that Brigham Young, which left the MWC to become independent in football three years ago, eventually would be interested in rejoining. BYU is one of eight charter members that broke away from the Western Athletic Conference to form the MWC in 1999.

Thompson said he did not want to go into "hypotheticals" should BYU show an interest. The MWC currently has 12 football teams. Thompson insisted the league probably would consider adding two teams — to expand to 14 in football — "before there’d be losing a member to make way for a 12th."

As of now, Thompson said, there is no conversation about changing the membership.

Thompson said UH’s ties with the Hawaii Bowl, the Hawaii exemption that allows visiting teams to play a 13th regular-season game, and "for many other reasons, you know, makes a lot of sense" why UH is a valued member.

Thompson emphasized UH has had an association with several MWC members dating more than three decades.

Thompson also said UH’s arrangement with the MWC "works pretty well." He said UH’s non-football sports do not need to join the league.

"We’ve got plenty of scheduling" in non-football sports, Thompson said. "A lot of these schools, there’s a continuity of geography — two hours (driving) away here, four hours here."

Thompson also said he does not anticipate any change in the deal in which UH keeps the $2.3 million it receives annually from the pay-per-view contract while forgoing a share of the MWC’s television deals.

"It’s really a balance," Thompson said.