Hair Thompson? - Do you want a change in MWC leadership?

[MWC Tex]

The ignorance on the board is amazing. 

[RogueStout]

2 hours ago, MWC Tex said:

The ignorance on the board is amazing. 

explain

[SleepingGiantFan]

Today should be hilarious:

 

[MWC Tex]

50 minutes ago, RogueStout said:

explain

People think the commissioner has all this power but forget on the other side there are TV, P5 conferences telling us how much we are worth and what power our conference really has.

 

CT could be telling them we want $6 million per school and the Fiesta bowl but when all the networks say only $1 million and Fiesta bowl laughs in his face you think he failed.

BSU fans say he should have added BSU earlier and maybe he did want to but the MW presidents did care for BSU because they look at other aspects like academics and having a stupid field in their conference.

Also, people forget the whole timeline of realignment.  

After BSU and SDSU left the MW had to add because of the NCAA rules for a conference to keep the auto bid.  

Which is why SJSU was added. Not for basketball but for baseball to keep within the rules. 

[Guest #1Stunner]

11 minutes ago, MWC Tex said:

People think the commissioner has all this power but forget on the other side there are TV, P5 conferences telling us how much we are worth and what power our conference really has.

 

CT could be telling them we want $6 million per school and the Fiesta bowl but when all the networks say only $1 million and Fiesta bowl laughs in his face you think he failed.

BSU fans say he should have added BSU earlier and maybe he did want to but the MW presidents did care for BSU because they look at other aspects like academics and having a stupid field in their conference.

Also, people forget the whole timeline of realignment.  

After BSU and SDSU left the MW had to add because of the NCAA rules for a conference to keep the auto bid.  

Which is why SJSU was added. Not for basketball but for baseball to keep within the rules. 

Hair did, unilaterally, call for a complete and total ban of MWC schools scheduling BYU.  He told everyone it would bring BYU to its knees, and that they would never schedule 12 games in a season.

Boise, USU, and UNLV broke the strike line, and refused to follow Hair's edict.  Now, even Wyoming and SDSU have come around.

Hair's icy heart has softened a bit now.  He no longer calls for MWC schools to not schedule BYU.

 

[Wyobraska]

2 hours ago, SleepingGiantsFan said:

Today should be hilarious:

 

Thanks for the heads up! 

Edit--Wait, is this just for the game matchups and locations?

[Wyobraska]

15 minutes ago, #1Stunner said:

Hair did, unilaterally, call for a complete and total ban of MWC schools scheduling BYU.  He told everyone it would bring BYU to its knees, and that they would never schedule 12 games in a season.

Boise, USU, and UNLV broke the strike line, and refused to follow Hair's edict.  Now, even Wyoming and SDSU have come around.

Hair's icy heart has softened a bit now.  He no longer calls for MWC schools to not schedule BYU.

 

Link?  If I remember correctly he has always been cordial with BYU.  

[Balzac]

It was a bad miscalculation to drive the stake through the heart of the WAC.

Thompson should’ve let them stay on life support as a FB conference.

By going too WAC heavy, Thompson made the MWC the defacto worst FBS conference in the West, which took away prestige for recruits. 

 

[Guest #1Stunner]

Just now, Wyobraska said:

Link?  If I remember correctly he has always been cordial with BYU.  

Sorry.  I don't have a link.  

But, Hair did say that.   It is pretty common knowledge (but that was about 7 years ago, already).

[Wyobraska]

1 hour ago, #1Stunner said:

Sorry.  I don't have a link.  

But, Hair did say that.   It is pretty common knowledge (but that was about 7 years ago, already).

I would say it is pretty common knowledge that Hair said that he would leave the light on for BYU.  

https://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/12/10/mountain-west-conference-leaves-a-light-on-for-byu-as-cougs-focus-on-long-term-future/

[kalua pig]

hair thompson is a clown.

[Balzac]

On 5/2/2019 at 10:32 PM, kalua pig said:

hair thompson is a clown.

 

I like the guy.

You can tell he likes to make moves.

lol And that he will, at times, decide not to pull the trigger

He’s fun to watch 

The Boise move with Kustra will forever define him.

[Jalapeno]

IMO, Hair's decision could be made after the new TV rights deal is signed.

I'm so ready to have Larry Scott fired from the Pac-12.

[smithy]

Larry Scott's problem is the PAC-12 network losing eyes and the Pac-12 presidents being so old school thinking that before you know it when expansion comes again some of west coast G5 may have moved on to other conferences. 

[1066]

On ‎5‎/‎2‎/‎2019 at 10:32 PM, kalua pig said:

hair thompson is a clown.

But not a very funny one.

[kalua pig]

10 hours ago, 1066 said:

But not a very funny one.

no,this clown scares children.

[Balzac]

On 4/6/2017 at 3:12 PM, renoskier said:

Was Craig Thompson doing a good job when the league was formed and eventually became prominent on the national stage? Was he doing too good of a job when two of the conferences most successful teams got poached to join richer conferences?

Whenever I hear this "Hair Thompson" bullshit, it mostly sounds like sour grapes from the fans a few schools who got left behind. Just maybe, he's doing what's best for the conference as a whole. How would raising the profile of certain schools, possibly making them a more attractive target for other conferences, help the MWC in the long run?

 

Hair Thompson wanted to be a P6 BEFORE being P6 was cool.

 

[SleepingGiantFan]

That's a great comparison.

'Cause the P5 has established a formula for G5s to become one of them just like the BCS did a dozen years ago.

Oh wait . . .

[godogsgo]

Hair needs to stop playing with message boards and get to work negotiating better deals for the conference. I’m looking at you, @mugtang, or should i say, Hair Thompson...

[RAMification]

On 4/6/2017 at 4:47 PM, Aslowhiteguy said:

It's hard for the typical fan to truly evaluate how well or poorly he is doing his job.  It's one of those things we just have to leave up to the presidents & AD's to decide.  I do think he probably gets a lot of criticism on here for things that are beyond his control, like the entire conference sucking. 

Renoskier -- Was Craig Thompson doing a good job when the league was formed and eventually became prominent on the national stage? Was he doing too good of a job when two of the conferences most successful teams got poached to join richer conferences?

Whenever I hear this "Hair Thompson" bullshit, it mostly sounds like sour grapes from the fans a few schools who got left behind. Just maybe, he's doing what's best for the conference as a whole. How would raising the profile of certain schools, possibly making them a more attractive target for other conferences, help the MWC in the long run?

NV Spuds -- If I was to knock Craig Thompson on something recent, it would be how he handled Wichita State's inquiry into Mountain West membership.  

Not that he said no, but how he said it.  "It ain't going to be us."  Flat out rejection without even giving it a thought is a poor look.  Did Thompson even talk to the MW presidents about Wichita State? As the commissioner and face of a conference, he should be looking at ways to improve his league and representing it as best he can.  

I like several responses that ring true to me, which I added to the above "Quote" (3 in total):

We truly have NO IDEA how much Leadership CT has tried to provide over the years ... Example, like the highly visionary Mountain TV thing which the Prez's bought & then spit out (and likely blamed CT, which would naturally harm his credibility).  The Mountain showed tremendous foresight & VISION by CT.  But nobody wants to give him credit for that.  The facts are that we as MWC Fans know diddley-sqwat about how well he has done & is doing with all the massive sea CHANGE & Hurricanes that the MWC has had to go thru.

And I believe CT coulda quipped more eloquently about the Shocker MBB/Oly possibility... and I have no doubt that this decision (and possibly the QUIP) came directly from the mouths of the Prez's... still he coulda delivered it better.  

IMHO, I am reticent to critique "the Man in the Arena", when I've never been there myself & don't know of anybody well-informed about CT's arena, whom I trust to eval him fairly.   Certainly nobody on here knows enough to provide that Fair evaluation.