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  1. Four coaches in 4 years. That’s the way to build continuity. Another unfortunate aspect of this is a school needing to embrace the mentality of hiring an up-and-comer who can bring established players with him rather than hiring a tried-and-true coach who is not looking to bolt at the first chance. NIL is resulting in the need to re-recruit your players every year and double that effort when your coach leaves.
  2. I am confident that USU will return all of its eligible players — just like last year.
  3. You get a credit for playing in a First 4 game.
  4. Oh we are very well acquainted with the script. We lost 4 starters that were expected back this year from last year’s NCAA team. Those players either went with Odom to VCU, retired and then un-retired, or were lured away by NIL $ during the coaching uncertainty. All four found themselves starting with other D1 programs this year. We simply replaced them with better players. And two years before we had another rebuild when Smith left and took two starters with him. We also replaced them with better players. Maybe we’ll need to do it again. We are well-practiced.
  5. I certainly understand why it would bother you for UNLV to have all the advantages over USU yet not be able to compete with them. And to add insult to injury no one will take Kruger off your hands. I feel your pain and would send you a tissue if I could.
  6. It’s just a damned shame that the Lobos don’t do well enough so that another team takes Pitino off your hands.
  7. Much more likely is that UNM would have fouled on the inbounds, USU would have hit the two FTs and thus covered the 3.5 line.
  8. Naw — rushed the court because the Aggies just won its first outright basketball championship since joining the MWC.
  9. It’s doubtful to me that the Aggies could hold on to Sprinkle. Undoubtedly he will get the conference COTY award and could win the national award, too. What he has done this year has been unprecedented in my experience. A little more than a year ago USU presumed to have 4 starters, 75% of their offense and their successful coach returning from an NCAA tournament team. And in a heart beat that all vanished with Odom’s departure. The cupboard was absolutely empty when Sprinkle was hired. Expectations in Aggieland were low and frankly in the media, too. And then the season ensued. If Sprinkle leaves USU will have had six head basketball coaches in the last nine years. That’s no way to sustain a program. I hate being the minor league training grounds for the big boys.
  10. Good for this young man and good for UNM for helping him. Best of luck to him.
  11. Much has been said by CSU fans (on this board and on the CSU board) about how bad the reffing in the game was as exemplified by the difference in the number of foul shots taken — 11 by CSU and 23 by USU. But the difference in fouls was only 6. Why then, pray tell, was the number of foul shots so disparate? It was because CSU did not make the front ends of four one-and-ones and USU made not only the front ends of six (by my count) one-and-ones but the back ends as well. The quality of the reffing was not the difference in the game but the foul shooting and USU out-rebounding CSU by 12 boards certinly were.
  12. TheP2 have a 2-year scheduling agreement with the WCC. They didn’t “join” the WCC. NCAA tournament credits accrue to the conference not the teams. the PAC will remain in some form or fashion. The trademark is too valuable to throw away.
  13. Oh, I thought you were a USU fan, Bob.
  14. Here is the downside of having success. From last year’s NCAA team the coach gets poached taking two of our returning starters with him. Two other returning starters, including our leading scorer, leave for other schools together with a key underclassman. What appeared to be a nearly full cupboard coming back for ‘23-‘24 has completely disappeared. I have no idea how this conglomeration of new players and a completely new coach and system will mesh.
  15. Here are the conference football records of BSU, SDS, AFA, Fresno St., CSU and USU since 2013 when the Aggies joined the MWC: 1. BSU 64-13 2. SDS 56-22 3. USU 48-30 4. Fresno St. 46-32 5. AFA 43-33 6. CSU 37-39
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