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Please tell me where this post/thread is about the stupid hat. I can only assume it’s the one I saw last weekend with all the SEC school logos all over it. I was embarrassed for the lady I saw wearing it.

Both the PAC and the MWC are sitting at 7 full FBS members. They both need one more. PAC has Gonzaga, but they ain’t adding football. Adding Texas State seems like the most obvious move here, but the PAC consistently think to highly of themselves and keep stepping on their dicks every chance they get. Is Texas State any worse than Utah State? Fuck no. MWC has Hawaii football only. Hawaii moving its non fb sports from the Big West to the MWC is the easiest solution.

Yes you are. App St > Air Force Marshall > Hawaii GA Southern > Wyoming James Madison > UNLV Louisiana > SJSU ULM > UTEP Southern Miss > Nevada Coastal Carolina > New Mexico and ODU, Troy, South Alabama, Arkansas St, and GA State are better than anything the MWC can add from CUSA.

Good. If they get a PAC offer they should go, but I think the Sun Belt is better than the MWC. App St, Marshall, GA Southern, Southern Miss, ULL > Air Force, Wyoming, UNLV, SJSU, Hawaii

Poor NMSU.

About damn time.

Brent Venables puts ketchup on his well done steak.

Easy to predict (many did) as it makes perfect sense. It’s pretty cold blooded if both the MWC and PAC leave out New Mexico State as the only G5 FBS team in not located in the Central or Eastern Time Zone when both conferences are hurting for members. I have no idea what the PAC is doing. If they pass on Texas State the only other option might be for them to go after Hawaii as a full member, wonder what, if anything, they had to sign to stay in the MWC. I still stand by that Sam Houston is not an option here, but maybe they go back to a familiar school like Louisiana Tech who spent a decade+ with the old WAC schools. Louisiana Tech has to be disappointed in what has happened with CUSA and their facility/alumni knows all about late night games out West.

Not the best photo but it’s what I had.

Which means what exactly. What historically significant event happened there? That registry is the ultimate Karen/Old Austin/nimby bullshit that does absolutely nothing. Muny and Hancock golf courses are on this list along side “6th Street” and the Kappa Gamma house. Shit can be old, and people can put it on a list of “historic” place to circle jerk each other off as they fight against txdot expanding 35…but nothing historic occurred there. It was a run down old shitty building that did nothing for a university that is essentially landlocked on all sides. Nobody was going to turn it into a museum (we have more than enough of those on campus already, many are rarely visited). Nobody wanted to pay to maintain it or improve it. It was an eyesore that stood in the way of progress of the best public school in not only our own state but in the whole mother fucking the Central Time Zone.

One site only counts FBS wins. Mack was head coach of App State for a season while they were still in FCS so it doesn’t count those. The other site only updates after each season. To date Mack is 10 wins behind Saban in college football wins (all divisions).

He’s 10 wins behind Saban. He ain’t getting that this year. Not sure he’ll survive at UNC that long. If he wants that record he’s going to have to go to a G5 program.

And…they have to be able to catch a ball. That make it any better?

Where the participation chart guy for tracking red shirts? (sorry I can remember who kept track of that). The staff likes Parker, he’s marked as participating in our non-Michigan OOC though he didn’t recorded any stats. It’s notable that Butler and Dubois DNP. I’m sure the staff is still planning on red shirting him but that’s still a great sign of his potential. When Bond/Golden/Bolden all declare for the draft Parker will battling the incoming freshmen for a spot in the two deep after Cook, Moore, and Wingo. You can teach a lot of things but you can’t teach a 6ft guy to be 6’3.

I don’t like or trust KB’s opinion, he goes way too far out of his way to try not to look like a Texas homer doing stupid ass shit like voting Reggie Bush #1 on his Heisman ballot after watching Vince mother fucking Young in person absolutely dominate all year. But credit where credit is due, he voted Texas #1 in the last two weeks and now has us at #2. With the 12 team playoff, and the SEC not using dumbass polls to determine its championship participants (fuck you forever Big12) isn’t all that important and is a position that can be easily defended.

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No flyover, I was looking for them.

Quoted the wrong post.

I don’t disagree with the analysis but I feel like including conference championship games and post season bowl/playoff games skews the data even more significantly toward those having good seasons. I assume your just referencing the top 25 chart on sportmediawatch, but the post season significantly skews our success criteria. Oregon/Washington drew 7 million and was the most watched game of the week during the regular season. Auburn was the number 2 game of the week twice last year against UGA and Bama drawing more than 6 million each time. All of these examples were overall top 15 games out of the 13 week regular cfb seasons. For the Auburn example you could counter that they only draw because they played Bama/UGA and but Kentucky DID NOT draw 7 million playing those same teams. This to make shows there is a clear distinction from Auburn and Kentucky which is why I separate them into a different tiers based out their outcome driven values. I typically consider 5 million+ viewers to be a major indicator of your program/year. Only 32 games pulled 5 million+ last year. Sure their are a few outliers like TCU, Colorado St, Duke, Maryland, and Georgia Tech where the Colorado or a power program is carrying most of the load, but in general those games are between teams in the top tier or one clearly in the elite of your second tier.

“Old” does not equal “Historic”

I think they should just declare a G5 regular season champion that is selected to play in the CFP, and the rest play in a G5 playoff tournament. Let two teams declare themselves national champions it don’t hurt nobody. This would be better TV than watching the top ranked MAC team gets spanked by a 7-5 Big Ten team in the Little Cesar’s Pizza Bowl.

Find a rivalry game (UW/WSU, UO/OrSO, UTSA/TXSt, CU/CSU,) Find an end of year FCS patsy. Schedule 3 regular OOC games like most schools. and if all else fails, schedule UConn. Is it ideal? No, but it’s better than paying out ridiculous money for MWC going jumping from the Colorado River to past the Mississippi River for an opponent that isn’t much better than what you could get OOC. If you add UTEP or a Northern Illinois you have to play them EVERY YEAR. Do you think the networks will pay to see those matchups? If they are already not paying much, keep the circle tight and everyone gets a bigger piece of pie. Colorado State already has 4 OOC scheduled out for the next 3 years playing 2 P4 opponents (but not Colorado), an FCS, and a G5. I don’t think it will be that difficult to find a 5th game.

My guesses: PAC adds Texas State for 8. Texas State fits their footprint and sounds like a big boy school to those who don’t know better, I’m guessing they offer them a lesser cut than those of the MWC like the ACC did with Stanford/Cal. TX St is awkward in either conference geographically speaking, but would rather take the money and join the Western schools than be paired with the more regional/directional universities of the Sun Belt. This would immediately change their external perception and put them in the conversation for the best of the G5 Texas schools along with UTSA. MWC doesn’t have a lot of leg to stand on here. They have money but they just gave away a good chuck of it to keep AFA/UNLV. I think cooler heads will prevail and they’ll come to their senses and do the sensible thing and just take UTEP and NMSU for 8+Hawaii fb while keeping watch for Western FCS upgrades like SacSt, Utah Tech, and Southern Utah, while trying to see if they can land any combo of the Montana/Dakota schools. CUSA holds at 10 but keeps watching for Eastern FCS upgrades (like Eastern Kentucky). Sun Belt doesn’t need any more teams, they just continue forward with unbalanced divisions of 13 for the time being, but I think they might start talking about bringing MTSU and WKU back into the fold along with Missouri State. That would get them to 16 and cover every Southern-ish state East of Texas other than Florida. Still I don’t see them wanting to move right away unless their TV deal requires a certain number of members. They’ll likely hold for now and watch how everything else shakes out and see if there is any stronger candidates emerge. MAC and AAC hold pat.

Back in the day I actually assumed Texas State would have more potential than UTSA to be successful in FBS and would have been pulled into a better conference. To date I was clearly wrong, maybe this changes that going forward.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/41462529/mountain-west-conference-gets-commitments-7-remaining-members MWC looking at Texas State and NIU.