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  1. Basketball, yes. Baseball? eh.... Oregon State - class of the conference Fresno State - roughly .500 the last 5 years, but NCAAs last 2 years Texas State - occasionally competitive, hopefully a new HC after next season Gonzage - b2b seasons under .500, NCAAs in 16, 18, 21, 22 SDSU - 4 straight losing seasons, last NCAA 2018 WSU - barely over .500 the last couple years, dreadful couple before that, last NCAA 2010 Boise State, Utah State and Colorado State do not have teams
  2. A major difference is the money those schools are offering Texas kids w/ decent grades, because those states don't have the HS grads w/ decent grades to fill those slots. For reference, if you graduate w/ a 3.6 GPA in TX, it's cheaper to go to Arkansas than it is to go to Texas State, and you get a much bigger university experience, especially if you care about sports. Between aTm adding 20K students and all those SEC schools pulling so many 2nd tier kids OOS, it's a pretty big deal for TXST and the rest of us not named Texas or Rice.
  3. I get the desire to play closer to home, but that ship has sailed for an elite athletics powerhouse like Stanford. Playing in the PAC would fuck their RPI something fierce. Never mind not having real competition to prepare them for the NCAA's.
  4. The only people referring to the PAC as a Power 5 conference are online shit stirrers. Gould hasn't mentioned it once. Hell, the new PAC isn't as good of a football conference as the Sun Belt, so no, no one is expecting an automatic bid to the playoff.
  5. 3/4 of it was awesome! With another 2nd half/4Q collapse. It didn't help that our best D player was on the sidelines quiet quitting so he could redshirt and get an NIL bag this upcoming year. Still pissed at that fuckhead...and at GJ for how he handled it. But we also completely shit the bed a couple weeks later @ ODU, who would finish the season at 5-7. Like I said - we had 10-11 wins staring us in the face and we spit the bit. Maybe, but I also want no part of competing against Stanford, and I don't imagine anyone else in the PAC feels like playing for 2nd in pretty much every sport.
  6. Can you imagine their disgust just thinking about associating with us academic paupers?
  7. Spoke to a guy I tailgate with last week about all the PAC news and he tells me he's friends w/ one of ASU's AC. They spoke recently and the AC told him that the reason our production went to shit in the 4Q was they figured out who our playcaller was (we have like 3 guys calling plays in) and what the plays were. 336yds and 4 TD through 3Q...62yds and 3 TO in the 4th. BTW - held Skattebo to his lowest YPC of the year & his 3rd lowest total yds on the year. Unreal that we stopped their #1 weapon and still lost. We legit should have had 10 or 11 wins last year - amazing what we pissed away.
  8. The last time we had a good football team was 2005 and made the FCS Final 4. David Bailiff decided to kneel out regulation and go to overtime when we had been moving the ball all game - 450+yds and 25 1st downs and had like 1:15 left in the 4th. That decision hangs over our program for eternity. This dude has come out of nowhere to be our LSUFreek. He's been cranking out edits like a madman the last 2 weeks.
  9. Athletically, Sam would be fine in the SBC. They would have finished 7th of 14 in Directors' Cup points if they were in the conference last year. Their facilities are a joke. The only reason they're FBS today is the minimum attendance requirement was dropped a couple years ago. 14K is tiny.
  10. Nice to have someone talk nice about us for once.
  11. Can't be overstated. The combination of Denise Trauth and Larry Teis was just brutal for us, especially when trying to move to FBS was crippling. For you Longhorns - think of where you would be if Steve Patterson was your AD for 15 years and the president just couldn't be bothered. As CDC has been your messiah, so too has Kelly Damphousse been ours.
  12. Pretty spot-on, especially given that Craven is a UTSA homer and typically slights TXST. Why Texas State became a viable option for the Pac-12 Texas State was always considered a sleeping giant in the G5 ranks inside the Lone Star State. The university, which is perfectly situated between the growing metropolises of Austin and San Antonio in San Marcos, arguably the coolest college town in Texas, reported an enrollment of 40,487 in the fall of 2024. That trails only Texas A&M, Texas, Houston, and North Texas. But the Bobcats always lacked the two things necessary to turn hope into reality in athletics, and specifically in football: leadership and money. Texas State made a bold move to enter the FBS ranks ahead of the 2012 season, but the administration at that time lacked the foresight and will power to push for more. Texas State did enough to move up, but not enough to capitalize on that move. The result? Twelve seasons of subpar results from 2012-2022, which included only one winning season and no bowl trips. When the university was searching for a new president in 2022, it presented prospective hires with six bullet points. One of those was a thinly veiled cry to fix the football program so that the university could have a bigger national reach. Texas State eventually hired Dr. Kelly Damphousse, a Canadian-turned-Texan who understood the value of football for a university after stints at Oklahoma and Arkansas State. "The sixth bullet point was phrased as, 'a president who understands the value of athletics,' but I knew what that translated to," he told Dave Campbell's Texas Football back in 2023. If a rising tide lifts all boats, football is that tide. When I met the search committee, I said that if we can fix football, that will take care of a few bullet points, including the one about raising our national recognition." Damphousse worked quickly to build the realignment and buy-in behind the scenes that is vital for athletic success. He made Don Coryell the athletic director and hired G.J. Kinne to be the head coach of the football program ahead of the 2023 season. The Bobcats have won eight games and the bowl game in consecutive seasons and enter 2025 as one of the favorites to win the Sun Belt. With the proper leadership in place, the only thing left standing in the way was finances. Jake Spavital, who was the football head coach before Kinne, used his own money to buy jugs machines and practice equipment when he was hired ahead of the 2019 season. Finding money for proper nutrition was nearly impossible. The only weight room big enough to house the entire Bobcat football team was at the local high school. So was the only indoor football facility. Turns out, competent leadership also produces better fundraising. Texas State secured $30- plus million dollars for renovations of the Weisman Football Performance Center that included the addition of the William Trevilian IV Weight Room. The on-campus stadium recieved a facelift that included new field turf and a new name - UFCU Stadium. Those investments made it easier for Kinne and the Bobcats to attract the talent required to win at a high level. But as college athletics moved towards a revenue-sharing model that goes into place on July 1, even more was required. The Sun Belt's media rights deal paid roughly $2 million per school. Rivals like UTSA received more than double that amount in the AAC. Something needed to be done, and that meant conference realignment. Texas State turned down an invitation to join the Mountain West Conference a year ago with the belief that a bigger paycheck would become available. That occurred when the Pac-12 began searching for an eighth full-time football member. Texas State received the official invite from the Pac-12 on Thursday and plan to formally accept it on Monday during a regents meeting. While the final figures of the Pac-12 media rights deal are not yet public, the Bobcats will see an increase in pay regardless of if they receive a full share right away. The move should also help with fundraising and season ticket sales as games Oregon State, Washington State, and Boise State are sure to provide more excitement than Southern Miss and Louisiana-Monroe. Texas State's glow up is a perfect illustration of what can be accomplished when ambition meets alignment. The Bobcats are no longer in the shadows of their peers across the state like UTSA and North Texas. While the Pac-12 they're joining is not the Pac-12 of old, the AAC that their in-state rivals occupy is also not the AAC of old. Conference realignment has eroded the depth and quality of both of those conferences. But that doesn't mean this isn't a historic move for Texas State that will raise the national brand of the football program, and in turn raise the profile of the entire university. Texas State always knew how to win the tailgate. The Bobcats figured out how to win football games and how to win over their own fanbase. And it resulted in a move to arguablv the best G6 conference in existence. A sleeping giant no more, it'll be fun to see what the Bobcats can do now that their finances and leadership are clearly improved.
  13. Regents approve with no objections. TXST is headed west. Eat 'Em Up!
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