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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
  16. Read: The chair of the BODs and the Conference Commissioner will be the voices of the conference’s position on all of these discussions and all other ADs and university presidents will keep their traps the hell shut.
  17. Every school’s board has some over-the-top fans. That’s to be expected. But the level of widespread hubris on the Aztec board is beyond anything I’ve seen even on the BYU and BSU boards. And that’s saying something. SDS’ “ready-fire-aim” approach doesn’t seem to be working. Your AD needs some coaching on better choosing his words so that the entire world doesn’t believe he’s disingenuous and dodgy.
  18. Yeah, I’ve always loved the common response of the guy who gets caught on camera saying or doing something utterly distainful — “That’s not who I am!” And I think, sure you’re not, Buddy.
  19. And I thought it was BYU fans that were full of themselves. They are pikers compared to a few SDS fans.
  20. It’s patently false that original membership provides any shield for a member. As I understand the bylaws a member can’t be kicked out except for cause. But 9 members could elect to dissolve the conference (and ther is a particular segment of the bylaws that speaks to this) and move to another conference leaving the 3 remaining members to fend for themselves. 1.03 Voting Rights of Members. Each Member Institution shall be entitled to appoint one (1) director to the Board of Directors in accordance with Section 2.03. Member Institutions shall be entitled to vote with respect to the dissolution of the Corporation pursuant to C.R.S. § 7-134-102. The affirmative vote of three-fourths (3/4) of the Member Institutions shall be required to dissolve the Conference. Member Institutions shall have no other voting rights.
  21. Good and right thing to do for who? BSU and SDS have bolted and tried to bolt several times. CSU has sniffed at the same. Fresno and Nevada left the WAC remants hanging our to dry. USU and SJS sank the WAC by leaving. This notion that loyalty should trump other considerations is mostly expressed by the fans of those schools who would benefit most by such loyalty. For instance, I am an Aggie fan. If 8 schools elected to merge in with the PAC4 and USU wouldn’t make the cut I am all about those other 8 conference teams exhibiting loayalty to the current conference. Washington showed no loyalty to WSU. Oregon showed no loyalty to OSU. CSU, Wyoming and the AFA owe nothing to each other and if push came to shove each would do what’s in their own interests.
  22. You are correct about the short fuse. The PAC4 has little time to iron this thing out. But exit fees for MWC teams is quite another matter. You should disabuse yourself that exit fees are an insurmountable issue IF 8 MWC teams voted for them to go away. The media deal is also addressable. When “The Project” nearly got off the ground in 2010 ESPN had already agreed in principle on what it was willing to pay for a reconstituted WAC even though the deal wasn’t in place. Similarly if a PAC4 takeover of the MWC was to be considered the pencil work would already have been done BEFORE ink was set to paper. No group of 8 MWC teams would consider for a moment moving ahead with such a cataclysmic idea without clear assurances. In summary a merger of the PAC4 into the MWC is certainly not the only option at this point.
  23. I do not believe that the PAC4 and most certainly the PAC2 hold the cards. The MWC has the hammer and time is very much on our side. But a discussion of eliminating lower contributing/valued MWC members, gauged by any number of factors, would be a joint one in the negotiations. And certainly the time is ripe for such a discussion. Will something like that happen? I sincerely doubt it. Will it be considered in order to have the per team distribution increase? I believe it will. Is it worth the hassle, angst, potential lawsuits and bad feelings to cut three teams out for the sake of a few more shekels? I very much doubt it. But there are too many examples of either teams leaving the conference island or throwing others off the island for the sake of more $ to believe it’s not possible.
  24. And frankly UNLV gets a pass in that regard and in regard to the recent success (or lack thereof) of their basketball and football programs. Why? Because UNLV is in Las Vegas. This is the same reason why the MWC, WCC and the PAC conference basketball tournaments are held there. In spite of all metrics to the contrary UNLV is viewed as one of the most attractive MWC members. Yeah, it’s crazy.
  25. BYU was NEVER going to be invited to the PAC and it had nothing to do with any of the metrics you mentioned. The PAC remnants could not give 2 cents for the higher education pedigree of schools that would be able to throw them a lifeline in their current predicament.
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