Seems like it was just a couple of weeks ago that I was complaining to somebody that the Mountain West Conference was too sleepy, that it needed more spice and conflict among its coaches instead of the steady palaver about how everybody's doing such a great job.

Well ... jackpot!

Not only did Utah's Jim Boylen and Wyoming's Heath Schroyer go nearly nose-to-nose about the Cowboys' last-second alley-oop against the Utes in Laramie over the weekend -- perhaps somewhat in response to the Utah football team's disgraceful onside kick against the Cowboys with a 43-0 lead a few months ago -- but now Boylen is basically calling Schroyer a liar.

"When I asked Heath about it, he said, 'I was telling them to pull the ball out,'" Boylen said. "Well, he wasn't telling them to pull the ball out. We got it on film that he wasn't telling them to pull the ball out."

Of course, the now-notorious play infuriated Boylen, who confronted Schroyer in an angry and profane shouting match after the game. In a press conference later, Schroyer repeated his assertion that the coaches wanted their players to let the clock run out, and described the play as "instinctive."

"Well, we don't have those kind of instincts around here," Boylen said. "So, we'll see them again -- that's what's great about league play. But, you know, we're going to run our program with class and we're going to do it right."

Boylen acknowledged that "mistakes will happen" and that he and Schroyer had enjoyed a collegial relationship until now, but said he felt the Utes "deserved an apology from him on that, and there was no remorse there and there was no respect for the game, and we don't believe in that here."

Ahhh, good times.

Now, to figure out what need to happen for the Utes and Cowboys to meet again in the conference tournament ...