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Lonestar88

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  1. Edgerrin James once got into a spat with Jim Mora because of this. It was late in the game and the Colts could run out the clock with a first down, so Mora told everyone to just fall down if they got the first. But Edgerrin had touchdown incentives in his contract, so he got the ball and scored. Mora was pissed, but Edgerrin simply told him, if you don’t want me to score touchdowns then don’t put that shit in my contract.
  2. It’s pretty clear this is what happened. A coach (or coaches) made a bunch of financial promises that they couldn’t keep. At some point they realized they didn’t have the money (they might have always known) but figured if they start the season, the kids wouldn’t just up and quit in the middle of it. Well, they upped and quit.
  3. Wow. UNLV is actually good, this has been their best start to a season in forever. Were legit contenders for the G5 playoff spot.
  4. Utah State makes it official
  5. This is a soap opera.
  6. I’m familiar with the rumors. But they don’t make sense to me. UNLV and Nevada have been in separate conferences for the vast majority of their histories. Nevada didn’t join the MWC until 2012. Before that, the only other time they were in the same conference at the same time was like a 3 year span in the 90s when both were part of the Big West.
  7. Utah State but no UNLV is crazy.
  8. UNLV choosing to stay in the MWC is a legitimate surprise. These teams must be hearing terrible things about the potential PAC tv deal.
  9. The PAC-12 screwed up imo. If they had just taken 8 MWC teams from the start, those 8 teams could've voted to dissolve the MWC and the PAC wouldn’t owe anyone any money. Now we’re talking about them taking 6 MWC teams anyway. They’re going to pay a shit ton of money for the right to take 2 less MWC teams.
  10. UTSA is the only one that might’ve made sense to move since they still aren’t getting a full share of the AAC tv deal, and they’re the closest geographically. I still think they made the right decision to stay. We’re talking college not the pros. Memphis is a big market for a college team, a lot of colleges are in the middle of nowhere. Also market doesn’t mean anything if the people in it don’t actually care about the teams. San Jose State is in the Bay Area, but no one in the Bay gives a shit about them, so who cares? When you combine market size and people in said market actually caring about them, Memphis is clearly one of the top G5 programs still available. It’s not like there are a ton of top notch candidates left, the G5 have been raided multiple times in the last decade, these are the best of the leftovers.
  11. Weather delays
  12. Nope, got benched because he sucks.
  13. Garland won state in 1999. No idea what they have did since then. Made the state semis in 2006. Only team to give Cedar Hill a close game that postseason.
  14. I was only talking about guys that left us last year. Going over everyone who ever left us would take a long-form article, and more effort than I’m willing to do for free.
  15. There are a handful of guys doing well after leaving us, but I wouldn’t say we miss any of them. Murphy is the starter at Duke and is 3-0. We all know he didn’t have a shot to play here with Quinn and Arch, I have no beef with him and root for him at Duke. Neyor is the leading receiver at Nebraska, although that’s not saying a lot, he’s the only WR there with over 100 yards on the season so far. Jerrin Thompson is the leading tackler at Auburn, but honestly looks the same as he did here. I like Bug, but he’s just not the most athletically gifted. Savion Red is the leading rusher at Nevada, and Kitan Crawford is third in tackles there. Going to a lower level is what they needed imo. Jalen Catalon has been really good at UNLV, he already has 3 interceptions, including a pick 6 and UNLV is 3-0 with two wins over Big 12 teams. Big question with Catalon is can he actually last the whole season. Everyone else has been either unremarkable at their new places or worse, buried on the depth chart. The funniest to me in this group is Terrence Brooks, who, after bitching about Texas coaches not developing him, is struggling to get playing time at Illinois. I guess the Illinois coaches couldn’t develop him either.
  16. The film you watched was the first time ever he played football. The room for growth is astronomical.
  17. 10 pt deficit might as well be 30 with Graham Mertz at QB.
  18. Not sure it will matter. DJ U obviously sucks, but so does every other aspect of this offense. The OL sucks, the RBs suck, the WRs suck, there’s no part of this offense that’s any good.
  19. SOC is a 5AD2 school, they are not mediocre for their classification. Will be a favorite to get back to the state championship game.
  20. If I’m an AAC team, I’m not leaving for the PAC until I’m sure of what the TV deal would look like. The AAC TV deal currently has higher payouts than the Mountain West, and this new PAC is basically just Mountain West #2 right now.
  21. I’m surprised the PAC didn’t just take two more MWC teams. You have to have 8 teams to qualify as a conference and NCAA rules give conferences that have been raided a grace period of 2 years. So the PAC has to get to 8 teams by the summer of 2026. They need two more teams. You can’t just hope for the ACC to implode, because even if that happens, it’s not likely to happen that fast. They have to already have something else in the works that we just don’t know about yet.
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