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ziggy29

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  1. I like some of our assistants for the job but if you can get Coach Ken (easier to spell than his last name) and can make a deal work, I think you do it. Instant track record and credibility to (a) keep players from entering the portal and (b) maybe bringing a few of the decent players still in the portal into the fold. The main question is the ability to not rely on the triple option, which his Navy teams were known for. I could see some QBs and WRs being uneasy about bringing him in otherwise. One thing I like about him is that he stayed in Annapolis for a long time even when he had other opportunities. For a program tired of getting coaches poached as soon as they start winning, that's important.
  2. Brennan's legacy, such as it is, may simply be, "I suck in bowl games". I'm not sure what idiots wanted other MWC teams to lose their bowl games. I'm always rooting for the MWC in OOC games, period, full stop.
  3. IMO, two straight questionable decisions by Navy — first to go for two, then to onside kick with almost 3 minutes and two timeouts left.
  4. The optics and timing of this post are horrible given what just happened at UNLV, and that's being charitable.
  5. Also, SJSU got hurt pretty badly when USC went into the toilet in the second half of the season and tanked their SOS. If the Trojans remained strong and easily ranked through the year, the Spartans may have snuck into the CCG on the strength of a considerably higher SOS. But that said, you don't count on things out of your control. Pissing away a 27-7 lead over Boise *was* in their control.
  6. "They" -- if there is a "they" -- was probably just a fan OR someone using Photoshop to mock them. Sorry, I said earlier I wouldn't feed trolls, but... as someone said earlier, in the conference standings SJSU finished above Fresno in football, basketball AND baseball this year, so you need to find pathetic shreds of joy where you can find them. And that says nothing about an almost unprecedented three consecutive Turds of the Week to finish the regular season. That all said, as for the OP if it is legit... although it is quite a stretch they *are* technically regular season co-champions. Not something I'd go crazy over, especially this year when the MWC clearly had no elite teams, but just the same, depending on context it's not 100% wrong.
  7. The primary recipe for a rivalry is twofold -- one, that the games usually have a lot of meaning in terms of who may win the conference; second, that both teams have their share of beating each other. To me, the SJSU-Fresno series from around 1981-1991 was totally this. The winner of that game almost always won the PCAA/Big West, AND they came close to splitting the series in that era. Yeah, being intrastate (like UNLV-Nevada) or really close in proximity (like Wyoming-CSU) helps too, but if it gets too one-sided, it becomes less compelling.
  8. At least a partial changing of the guard if so, which I think would be fun. And while I don't want it to happen, to be honest, UNLV has to beat SJSU with some frequency for it to really be a rivalry. For whatever reason, the Spartans have been kryptonite for the Rebels, even when the games looked challenging on paper and even when SJSU has been terrible. It'll take more than $hit talk on this forum to get it to rise to that level.
  9. It's amazing how much joy some Fresno fans here are taking in the computer's "decision" after their team laid the TOTW for three straight weeks.
  10. Clear as mud again because of the three-way tie thing where they didn't all play each other. SJSU and BSU are separated by 0.03 which is statistically identical. And Boise beat SJS (even though head to head was not a factor with the computers). Of course, SJS beat UNLV, but by the computer metric, that's still not close and not a statistical dead heat. Still I think at least one of the computer models really gave SJSU the shaft.
  11. Small consolation for the Spartans. At least we got a vote in the Coaches Poll. Unlike the computers, recent performance matters. Like I said, small consolation. That and the fact that missing out on the CCG guarantees a winning record overall.
  12. I'm disappointed in the computers, but I won't feed trolls on either side.
  13. Coming from someone whose team just utterly crapped the bed in three straight humiliating TOTW level defeats, this is pretty sad.
  14. Didn't help that USC went into the toilet in the second half of the season, as that really weakened their SOS. The bottom line to me is that all three teams that were tied had good reasons to be included AND understandable reasons for being the odd one out. But SJSU crapped the bed against Boise after leading 27-7, and I keep coming back to that; the Spartans can't blame that on anyone but themselves. I do think the Spartans are probably the strongest team *right now*, but the selection is based on eight conference games and, after that all else being equal, how you did OOC -- for the entire season. The computers don't have recency bias, arguably for better AND for worse.
  15. Also, in the Big “10”, how often has Penn State been the third best team in the conference but would have been the champion in the other division? Almost every year recently. That is a downside of these mega conferences of the last couple decades compared to the 8-10 team conferences of old when every team played all the others and it was much more likely to be decided on the field, and not needing pollsters or computers.
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