Eat_Your_Dried_Fruits Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Props to whoever started this. https://www.change.org/p/tell-the-mountain-west-conference-we-want-football-rivalry-weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamSack Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 If rivalry weekend is any other weekend besides the one right after Thanksgiving then I’m all for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimwhit Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Doesn't go far enough. November should be divisional games only. No cross-division. Period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueStout Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 21 minutes ago, Dimwhit said: Doesn't go far enough. November should be divisional games only. No cross-division. Period. It would be a good start though. Hard to believe we even have to deal with this kind of shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimwhit Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 10 minutes ago, RogueStout said: It would be a good start though. Hard to believe we even have to deal with this kind of shit. True, a good start. And yeah, it's moronic that this is still an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bornsilverandblue Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Not signing it, only because I want to play UNLV on Nevada Day weekend (only makes too much sense, right?) and Boise St on rivalry week. Is it fitting or irony that possibly the most versatile word in the English language is also of unknown origin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSUTOP25 Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 10 hours ago, RamSack said: If rivalry weekend is any other weekend besides the one right after Thanksgiving then I’m all for it. Remind me ... which weekend is it that CSU plays Minnesota? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tspoke Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 I'm all for ending the season on divisional games but I really don't need to play rivalry games in the last weekend. We have done it with CSU some years and it doesn't work well for either school(or at least UW, don't want to assume for CSU but it seemed that way from what I remember). Its Thanksgiving weekend and students have gone home which hurts attendance. Having a rivalry game on the last weekend doesn't do anything to make the game bigger for me. Its as big in October as it would be on thanksgiving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueStout Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 1 hour ago, BSUTOP25 said: Remind me ... which weekend is it that CSU plays Minnesota? Whenever the B1G CCG is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NevadaFan Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Well that’s odd. I opened this thread expecting to see a picture of Dre’s mom? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyovanian Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Not sure "rivalry weeks" are all they're cracked up to be, but I am definitely on board with zero cross-division games being played after October. Maybe a "rivalry month" would be a better approach. The weekend following Thanksgiving almost needs to become everyone's bye-week, if you ask me. Basically eliminate all the scattered byes and just black out that weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthWestCowboy Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 2 hours ago, tspoke said: I'm all for ending the season on divisional games but I really don't need to play rivalry games in the last weekend. We have done it with CSU some years and it doesn't work well for either school(or at least UW, don't want to assume for CSU but it seemed that way from what I remember). Its Thanksgiving weekend and students have gone home which hurts attendance. Having a rivalry game on the last weekend doesn't do anything to make the game bigger for me. Its as big in October as it would be on thanksgiving. It's not only the students not on campus but out of town fans are less inclined to travel having travelled themselves or having family visiting for Thanksgiving. Wyoming, and I would say most G5 schools don't have the fan base size or passion to get good attendance on Thanksgiving weekend. As long as Wyoming plays AF and CSU in November like we did this past season I'm good. In 2016 Wyoming played AF and CSU both in early October and I am not a fan of that. Cross divisional games really should not be played in November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleepingGiantFan Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 15 hours ago, Eat_Your_Dried_Fruits said: Props to whoever started this. https://www.change.org/p/tell-the-mountain-west-conference-we-want-football-rivalry-weeks The guy who started it is Matteo Ortiz. IIRC, he's the SDSU student who advocated placing the Aztec calendar on our helmets. I'm not sure why he feels so strongly about the rivalry week thing since we haven't really had a football rival since Pat Hill refused to continue scheduling SDSU in the early 00s. Boom goes the dynamite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfpack1 Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Well you do know that according to Thompson there will be no cross divisional games on for the last game of the year at least. So using that guideline last game of the season i think they will so up: Nevada vs. UNLV Fresno St vs. San Jose St San Diego St vs. Hawaii Colorado vs. Wyoming New Mexico vs. Air Force Boise St vs. Utah St Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...