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  1. Rankulator starting to finally make some sense with added data. USU's three losses are to #18(AFA), #20 (JMU), and #31(IOWA). Those three teams have a combined record of 15-1. In those three games the Aggies have outscored each opponent from Q2-Q4 but their terrible Q1 performances have proven too much to overcome. Scores over last three quarters of the game: @ AFA - 21-17 vs. JMU- 38-28 @ Iowa- 14-10
  2. I have never seen a team that looks so incredibly bad in quarter #1. Down double digits before the game even starts every single week. Then for 3 quarters we look completely the opposite and unstoppable in every facet. I've never seen anything like it. We have basically dominated 3/4 of every game we have played this year but we have dug such enormous holes in the first quarter that we have not been able to overcome the deficit in half of them. Blake Anderson now has 14 come from behind wins at USU in just 2.5 years with most of them being down double digits. Sure would be nice to just win the normal way once in a while.
  3. I have been baffled by the lack of use of DQ this season. I really thought he was going to play a big role in this year's offense for the Pokes. Then again, I have no clue why Peasley is the starting QB either so????
  4. Can we just stop with this attendance bullshit that gets thrown out every season. It's not hard to turn on the TV and see with your own eyeballs which stadiums are packed and which aren't, regardless of what is reported. For example, plenty of tweets were sent out during the SDSU game this week showing the place designated for the The Show (or No Show as they are more commonly known as). Many of the shots were during the 2nd and 3rd quarters. It's more than obvious the counting and reporting is not done with any sort of similarity between schools so why throw up a bunch of numbers that mean absolutely nothing. They are hardly a reflection of who draws the most support. The best attendance dig of the weekend had to be from Idaho State's head coach Cody Hawkins. When asked how it was for his guys to play in such a rowdy environment as Maverik Stadium and in front of the crazy student section he said. "Yeah, nobody ever dreams about playing in a stadium that felt like last week's game. We want to play in front of rowdy fans". Ouch!
  5. I think these two are going to be quite the duo for a while.
  6. We good at making people fat! As if Aggie Ice Cream wasn't enough? https://www.usu.edu/aggiemade/members/crumbl
  7. This is reality. It was already a very small number of fans that cared but it is only growing smaller and less relevant with each pro team added to the valley. I love all these scenarios that say the "top 6" will be targeted or the "bottom 3" need to be left behind but then disregard reality of what constitutes the top or bottom. Results on the field/court? Apparently that doesn't matter, but under current MWC membership (since 2013) the bottom 3 football schools are UNLV (0.310%), UNM (0.325%), and UH (0.386%). SJSU sits just barely above UH at 0.390% but then there is a nearly 0.06% jump to the next nearest team (CSU). Point is there is a clear bottom 4 with UNLV firmly in the bottom spot. Appreciate this perspective and I agree. I have watched my Aggies lose a basketball and football coach about every 2-3 years for what seems like our entire stay in the MWC (and not for poor performance) and each year they find some way to rebuild or compete again. I am interested to see if the program can withstand this moving forward now that NIL is also a big factor in competing for top athletes. There will always be guys that are overlooked or under-recruited but are there really enough of them to keep pace with full rosters of guys getting paid six figures to play? This gotta be Stunner right?
  8. This is true, it is the only shred of anything in all of this that has held so far - it still hasn't stopped FSU and Clemson from trying to influence other changes, including a renegotiation of something they agreed to in the first place.
  9. ....and where is will WSU and OSU get all this cash to fight the good fight? They'll take one glance at their wallet and decide it isn't worth the effort. WSU president has already made remarks that show he is resolved to the Cougars losing P5 status with their next move. Once Sankey calls the group together, they will inevitably vote to reduce the auto bids from top 6 conference champs to top 5 champs (still leaving a place at the table for 1 G5). The PAC will also be removed from A5 status and there is nothing that can be done about it. There has not been a single contract or agreement or grant of rights or any other mechanism of "law" put in place that has stopped or prevented any of the changes we see today. It has been broken, rewritten, renegotiated, or ignored altogether to bring us to the current state of affairs. That will certainly not change over the bottom 2 remaining schools from a previous power conference being left behind.
  10. BAHAHAHA....this tweet is worded perfectly. The MWC is not, has not been, and never will be a conference that will help OSU in any way, shape or form? Let me translate: This sounds awful for us Beavers and not anything like the PAC12 where we have been handed gobs of money for decades to help build facilities we aren't worthy of while sucking hind teet and contributing next to nothing to our conference. We would be better off canceling the program than having to join the lowly MWC and having to actually work to help the conference that we are a part of.
  11. You have to be trolling with this. The MWC media deal will increase even if there are ZERO additions. You have to understand that the current TV payouts are never reflective of the current values of these conferences. The AAC deal (that their fans love to boast about) is only bigger than the MWC deal because it was negotiated more recently and it was based on former membership. Losing their top teams to the BigXII and several large markets since that agreement is not going to bode well for them when it's time for renegotiation. Conversely the MWC will not only be looking to renegotiate based on current rates but they will also have increased their value through performance, ratings, and potentially the addition of new markets. A new MWC deal would already bring 7-8M in current market dollars but adding OSU and WSU would likely bump that to 8-10M/per team. It's not a huge increase for their addition, but it will be more than what it would be without them. As I've posted before, both of their designated media markets are in the bottom 1/4 among MWC schools. I love that they post about their amazing conference payout, including NCAA credits, bowls, etc. and state that it's like 9M compared to the MWC 3.5M. If we're comparing apples to apples, I'm fairly certain we know the MWC payout was 6.6M this year because that was what was being withheld from SDSU upon receipt of their rescinded "exit letter". All of this will become a point the AAC buffoons drop in a couple of years with the new MWC TV deal. Meanwhile, they'll be lucky to sign for the same money on their next media deal (my guess is it will be less). So your angle is that you wish there were no exit fees in hopes that the city UNLV happens to be located in will be enough to carry UNLV to a new conference affiliation? Why? Is UNLV going to suddenly experience a new level of success simply by being a part of a P4 conference? I would argue the opposite would be true, given the lack of success in the MWC. You mention in the next breath that the conference died the moment SJSU and USU joined, yet you fail to recognize that UNLV=SJSU.
  12. Stanford's rowing, fencing, sailing, and water polo teams are natural fits for the MWC. They can just keep the trophies in their case year-round.
  13. It's exactly what Stanford has offered to do as well. Willing to basically pay millions (by giving up their share of payments for several years) to stay a part of the P4 - of course they have even more $$ than SMU so that is of no concern to them.
  14. Hot Seat Rankings 1-10 (1=cool, 10=hot) Calhoun - 1 (16 years at one place, about as safe as you can get) Brennan - 1 (27-42 is not great...unless you are at SJSU - no expectations=very cool) Odom - 1 (will he be the next in a line of failed coaches? UNLV will give him 2-3 years to find out) Tedford - 1 (36-18 overall at Fresno St., beloved & can probably stay as long as he wants) Anderson - 2 (17-10 record, 1 championship, 1 underwhelming bowl season, year 3 somewhere in between?) Norvell - 2 (3-9 in year #1, still has time) Chang - 2 (3-10 in year #1, still has time and "Island Son" working in his favor) Wilson - 2 (2-10 record but only in year 2 so fairly cool) Hoke - 3 (36-24 overall record at SDSU, doesn't seem to be in any danger sans a disastrous season) Avalos - 3 (17-9 record, not great but not meeting the high expectations now may see this number shoot up) Bohl - 4 (52-56 record over 9 seasons, hard to believe it has been that long and still waiting for that magical season) Gonzales -6 (7-24 record, depending on how long UNM sees this rotation going this could climb quickly) Really no MWC coach on a major hot seat to start 2023.
  15. very little? are you kidding? ...they will be raking in like 2M more than the future MWC TV deal or the current AAC TV deal! They'll be rich! Never mind the added cost of flying all over the country, it won't matter with those added stacks of cash they can burn all the jet fuel they want as they fly around on their chartered planes and live the luxury life of a real power G5.
  16. No one really knows. The new stadium was built to change their fortune yet so far it has been largely more empty than their old stadium was. In this ever changing realignment world it seems actual realized athletic and academic success doesn't really mean a whole lot. All that matters is a perception of "potential". Unfortunately, this potential is measured as a simple byproduct of being located in a populated city or being a part of a TV DMA that may help to enhance the marketing campaign of a particular conference. If a conference already has a presence in a particular DMA, there is rarely a need for a second team from the same one. As long as CU is around, I can't see CSU ever being allowed to join. Same goes for USU with Utah. Sharing state funding, the same DMA, etc. They will both do everything in their power to make sure their once in-state rivals remain their former rivals and would never do anything that might give them a foothold and or be thought about as anything but lesser.
  17. 193 pages...and almost 125k views. This thread=$$$ for MWCBoard ownership. The gift that keeps on giving.
  18. The BIG10 has already had meetings with KU and ISU. They are the only remaining AAU members in the Big XII which is big deal to the BIG10. KU offers one of the premier basketball programs in the country and the recent surge of ISU football has put them squarely in the conversation as the other addition. They are also both in the conference footprint with natural rivals already established. I believe WVU also joins the ACC, leaving 3 more openings in the new Big XII. Memphis, BSU, and ?? come on down!
  19. Memphis football > Memphis basketball. this is the case at every school in the nation except for the very few blue bloods like KU, Duke, Kentucky, etc.
  20. For a short period. Taking the $8M left by AFA and CSU and distributing to the remaining 10 schools takes everyone to roughly $4.8M/year (outside BSU and their additional $1.8M or whatever). That is more than the remaining schools in the AAC will see. Now, when BSU leaves is when it is going to get real sad around here.
  21. It will be the AAC moving down. This comment is in regard to the $$ being a wash to AFA and CSU - meaning they will still make about what they make now (approx. $4M/year). If they add any small amount of value to the AAC then I would hate to see what the AAC would have been down to per team without them.
  22. This whole move by the AAC to try and make a grab or target MWC schools is a play on public perception. When you are the entity "adding to" you can posture that you are higher in the pecking order. No one in their right mind would argue that the current AAC is better than the MWC but if they can get a couple of teams to join them they can continue with the P6 narrative that they have tried to sell everyone for years. This certainly is not about $$. If losing AFA and CSU does not affect the current TV deal for the MWC, it is safe to assume that they don't add any value to the AAC TV deal. It will do nothing to offset the losses of their top teams and from a competitive standpoint it actually strengthens the MWC.
  23. Oh no you didn't!!! You sons a bitches You love us and you know it.
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