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On 7/26/2017 at 9:49 PM, FormerFrog said:

I was thinking about how to fix MWC football (in its present condition, without dropping teams)... and I think Art Briles and Hugh Freeze may be the MWC's only option.

After all, a conference set in a footprint that's known for its Brothels and Marijuana consumption shouldn't seemingly have an issue with Freeze's transgressions (prostitutes) or even Briles's permissive views on sex.

Hell, many of the posters on this board are frequenting such establishments.

But that's neither here nor there... EVERYONE DESERVES A SECOND CHANCE. The MWC can establish itself as the Godly conference by harvesting the best available coaching talent.

Put Briles at a San Jose State and you INSTANTLY have a California school with a pulse. That would be EXTREMELY beneficial to the conference and the TV deal.. He could bring his kid to San Jose as a coach in waiting and immediately establish another Boise State type foundation in the Mountain West (only at a schools that actually has a desirable location).

As for Hugh Freeze, he's the perfect fit for Vegas! Now that the Raiders are moving there, Freeze's renegade reputation would fit in well. He's also a Holy Roller, so you have the Evangelicals filling your stadium like its a Billy Graham crusade. You can actually make a marketing campaign around his confessing his sins.

The point is, that both guys are a good fit for this conference. The MWC needs them because we both know the status quo will end in rigor mortis for all the weak, underfunded, sisters in the Mountain West.

As Gordon Gecko said, it's not always the most popular guy that gets the job done... and this is probably the last breath for the conference leading in to the upcoming TV negotiations. 

Enjoy humor, but isn't Patterson trying to hire him?   Personally, I'd love to see Briles @ CSU, or any of the MWC schools (he is actually a good man).   I'm not that familiar w/ Freeze.  

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On 7/26/2017 at 8:04 PM, Headbutt said:

You just once again stepped on thin ice.  Rape isn't sex.

I know you get a big kick out of trolling the MWC board, and the stupid way you do it is pretty apparent to all the denizens.  Very few on here take you serious, and your schtick can be mildly entertaining once one realizes that it is a schtick.  However,  you go to far and it will land you once again in neverland.  Last warning.

I just realized you need to sit there and read every one of these idiotic posts... damn, it must suck to be a mod :P

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2 hours ago, RAMification said:

Enjoy humor, but isn't Patterson trying to hire him?   Personally, I'd love to see Briles @ CSU, or any of the MWC schools (he is actually a good man).

Briles is an excellent coach. But a good man? Why do you say that?

Boom goes the dynamite.

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I know this is a troll post, but if USU fires Wells and Freeze is available, I hope they at least give him a call. I doubt he'd be interested and I don't know if he could recruit to Logan (or anywhere outside the South) even if he were. But realistically at a G5 school (and particularly a school with a limited budget like USU), you're not going to hire someone with a proven record of success as a head coach unless they come with some baggage. And personally I could care less if my coach is hiring hookers (or engaging in any other consensual activity behind closed doors) if he's winning games. As for Briles, not just no but hell no. Hiring a hooker doesn't hurt anybody other than maybe Freeze's wife. (Well, hopefully if he's making millions he's hiring high-end escorts rather than trafficking victims, but you see my point.) But if you're willing to let your players get away with rape in order to win football games, you should never coach again, and I would permanently stop supporting USU (football/athletics/otherwise) if they hired him.

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On ‎4‎/‎9‎/‎2017 at 2:50 PM, FormerFrog said:

Now that FB Championship games have been deregulated, why hasn't there been an "Airport Meeting"? (in much the fashion that I laid out in an earlier post)

Similarly to the MVC (who are dealing with the loss of Wichita State and Creighton) the MWC has too many small budget programs that don't care anymore...

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With the latest word about the MWC TV deal... ARE WE READY FOR AN AIRPORT MEETING??

The MWC needs to streamline football and bulk up basketball.. 10X10 (CUT OUT ALL THE EXTRA MOUTHS TO FEED!!!)

In FB, the AIRPORT ATTENDEES SHOULD BE (10)..

UNLV

Nevada

San Diego

Fresno

Boise State

Idaho Vandals

Colorado State

New Mexico

Air Force FB-Only!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hawaii FB-Only!!!!!!!!!!!

In MBB, THE AIRPORT ATTENDEES SHOULD BE...

BYU Olympics

Gonzaga Olympics

Boom. There you go. AIRPORT MEETING.

 

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Mods, can you please pin this thread. Or alternatively, start a new forum titled "Former Frog's Thoughts?" 

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1 hour ago, BSUTOP25 said:

Mods, can you please pin this thread. Or alternatively, start a new forum titled "Former Frog's Thoughts?" 

I'd change "Thoughts" to "Drivel." 

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Boom goes the dynamite.

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1 hour ago, BSUTOP25 said:

Mods, can you please pin this thread. Or alternatively, start a new forum titled "Former Frog's Thoughts?" 

It's not like any of this is controversial...

The better teams in the MWC need to part with the dregs. You're being killed by the disproportionate funding from Top to Bottom.

Perhaps the better teams in the MWC should join with the better teams in CUSA West. 

Having a footprint with anchors in California AND Texas would actually strengthen the conference, in recruiting and potential TV windows you can offer, as well as population metrics.

The sparse "deadlands" are KILLING MWC VIEWERSHIP!!!

The MWC should reignite 'Alliance' talks with select teams from both side. Put together a workable TV product.

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I still think 2 to 4 MW schools end up in the AAC, probably 4 because the AAC will lose at least 1 if not more in the future. go to 16 now, absorb 2+ losses over the next 5 years, but still have a strong 12-14 remaining in a national conference in a lot of major markets. 

 

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, AztecSU said:

I still think 2 to 4 MW schools end up in the AAC, probably 4 because the AAC will lose at least 1 if not more in the future. go to 16 now, absorb 2+ losses over the next 5 years, but still have a strong 12-14 remaining in a national conference in a lot of major markets. 

The preliminary question is the B12.

I remember hearing that one of the Texas schools which became part of the B12 when the Southwest Conference went out of existence obtained the rights to that name. My cursory attempt to determine which that was didn't reveal the identity but since SWC archives are stored at Texas Tech, it's presumably TT. TT is definitely not going to the B1G, the SEC or the ACC and isn't exactly coveted by the P12. So once OU, KU and probably another couple schools bolt from the B12, might the leftovers including TT just rename their conference the SWC? That would make sense to me if WVU was one of the exiting schools - for the ACC or the SEC in that case.

It would also make sense if the leftovers decided that expansion west would be a better idea than expanding east. Why try to compete against the B1G, the ACC and the SEC when by backfilling west their conference would have to compete against just one true power conference, the P12? They could take Houston, SMU and Memphis from the AAC to go to say 9 and then add 5-7 schools west of Texas like CSU, AFA, BYU, Boise, SDSU, UNLV and Fresno or UNM. So doing would also diminish both the AAC and the MWC to about the same caliber as the MAC, which is exactly what you want to do to try to still call yourself a power conference.

Boom goes the dynamite.

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@FormerFrog is coming in strong this week with the "likes!" Some very nice MWCBoarding:

 

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On 7/29/2017 at 2:02 PM, SleepingGiantsFan said:

Briles is an excellent coach. But a good man? Why do you say that?

Every person I have met who know art briles from his high school coaching days at Stephenville High School, too and through every one of his coaching jobs... Said he was a very straight arrow and good moral man. IMHO, Baylor 1/10th of the infrastructure built and in place to push the Coaches & entire Athletic Dep to the sidelines, do an impartial investigation, advocate for and actually help students who were having these sexual assault issues. Briles staff did the stupid stuff that one would expect when there is such a void of Title 9 protection for students being assaulted. Especially assaulted on a Baptist School campus where they do not contemplate needing such stringent protections for their female students.

This is just my take, based mostly on the people who no art briles.

 

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For those of you who PREDICT the MWC will someday become a better FB conference than the AAC (i.e. fanhood, edluvar, etc)...

The current recruiting rankings are devastating.

The current 11th place AAC recruiting program, UCONN, has 101.02 recruiting points. That would put them atop the MWC.

http://247sports.com/Season/2018-Football/CompositeTeamRankings?Conference=AAC

IN CONTRAST, the current #1 ranked MWC recruiting program, Boise State, has 100.53 recruiting points. (That would put them 2nd to last in the American.)

http://247sports.com/Season/2018-Football/CompositeTeamRankings?Conference=M-West

BYU has 161.46 points. That's around the 2 position in the American.

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You do realize that the AAC teams have more commits currently than the MWC teams, right?  And that effects the composite ratings.  Uconn has 14 commits compared to Boise's 9, so that's why they have a higher composite rating.  

thelawlorfaithful, on 31 Dec 2012 - 04:01 AM, said:One of the rules I live by: never underestimate a man in a dandy looking sweater

 

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