The Mountain West Conference extended an invitation on Wednesday morning and Nevada officials agreed to just before calling a press conference at the Reno campus, school president Milton Glick said.
"This is a momentous day for the University of Nevada," he told reporters.
"I think it has long been the goal of our athletic department at the university, this community and the Board of Regents to have the traditional rivalry between UNLV and Nevada improved and that we should be in the same conference," said Glick.
"I think people have been waiting a long time for this day. We think it's really a change for us."
Nevada and UNLV played together in the Big West Conference before UNLV went to the WAC in 1996, then became a founding member of the Mountain West in 1999. Left Nevada great for the WAC West in 2000.
Glick said the move will also keep intact a growing rivalry between the Wolf Pack and Boise State, who announced in June that he was leaving next year for the Mountain West. He said he has not yet been determined whether Nevada will join the Mountain West in 2011 or 2012.
Solve is also a departure fee "that Nevada could cost up to $ 5 million under a contract with the WAC, Glick said.
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"That would be a high," he told reporters. "We started negotiations tomorrow."
Regardless of the fee, Glick said the school is estimated that improved economic conditions in terms of revenues and expenses within five years of making the move to the Mountain West.
Nevada Athletic, director Cary Groth said the change to the CTM in particular help to save on travel expenses compared with a WAC schedule that saw the Wolf Pack play regularly in Hawaii, as far east as Louisiana Tech
Already committed to Boise State, the CTM are inherited three of the best teams in the WAC in recent years.
"I think Nevada and Fresno State put strength to the football program," said Groth.
Nevada basketball coach David Carter, said before the agreement was reached Wednesday that he thought both major sports would benefit from the measure.
"It's a great basketball conference, told the Reno Gazette-Journal.
"You have San Diego State, Las Vegas, Fresno State and TCU and all of the State of Colorado to rise," he said. "We would have better name recognition in the West Coast, and help us in recruiting as well."
Carter said the kicker is the rivalry with the rebels.
"I think it's a long time coming," he said. "We already play them once in a while, but to play with them at home and home every year will be great."
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