The Western Athletic Conference board of directors held its annual meeting June 1-4 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. This is the year’s big meeting, with the chief executives (eight presidents, one chancellor) of the nine member universities gathering to chart the WAC’s future.

“It was a pretty quiet agenda,” says WAC Commissioner Karl Benson.

Always the consummate diplomat, that Benson.

Let’s see: Intensifying NCAA focus on academic reform, the constant struggle between Bowl Championship Series conferences and non-BCS conferences, tight budgets in a struggling national economy, a facilities arms race only growing in scale and expense, rising travel costs in a conference that stretches across about one-sixth of the planet, and the ever-present quest within each university for an equitable distribution of assets among parties who don’t always see eye-to-eye on the definition of justice.

Those are just a few of the issues facing all conferences, including the WAC.

Doesn’t look like a quiet agenda to me.