DALLAS – There still isn't a name decided for the new league that could be formed by Conference USA and the Mountain West, but there is a due date: early June.

Whatever format or shape the new league between C-USA and the Mountain West ends up in, it will completed by early June, the league’s commissioners said Monday.

“Early June,” C-USA commissioner Britton Banowsky said. “We need to be done by then.”

Banowsky said the 16 institutions – East Carolina, Marshall, Rice, Southern Mississippi, Tulane, Tulsa, UAB and Texas-El Paso from C-USA and Air Force, Colorado State, Fresno State, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, UNLV and Wyoming from the MWC – have “decided to work together to form a new association.

“They’ve entered into binding agreements to that affect. They’ve received govern approval in some cases from their various regents and trustees,” Banowsky said. “A lot of details to be worked out, obviously, including structure, management, a name of a new association, television, media rights.”

Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson also said there are a lot of unknowns about all the particulars of the new league.

“It’s still a bit of a white canvas,” Thompson said.

Banowsky said the idea that the two groups of institutions are not working together was not true.

“We may grow to 24 and if we do, they may be two independent divisions,” Banowsky said. “This is unchartered territory. There may be two independent divisions that both have the quality of conferences.

“What these institutions want is stability and they think they can get stability through numbers. And they like the idea of national scope. They’re still exploring all the various structural models.”

Banowsky confirmed CBSSports.com’s report that there are five presidential subgroups working on various aspects of the new conference. Those groups have been meeting for the past six weeks, Banowsky said.