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On 10/29/2024 at 4:22 PM, agswin said:

 

Would Harsin/Dreilling do it?

 

Honest question--do you think USU is capable of getting any A-List or B-List coach until you're clear your Title IX NCAA investigation?  It seems like no coach is going to want to go there until any potential penalties are known.  If Harsin has only 5-7 years left, he doesn't want t spend 3 of them on a team with not a level playing field.

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agswin

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How much more Title IX investigating is anyone expecting or anticipating or wanting to see at this point?

There has been a comprehensive and extended review of the entire Utah Sate Athletic Department by the DOJ.  

The Head Football Coach, an Associate AD, and other Athletic Department Staffers were terminated as a result of the extensive DOJ review and the findings the DOJ came upwith.

 

At this point, I am not sure that further useful or instructive information is coming out. Would not it have come out already?

Anyway, I am sure that the complete details of the report  are in the public domain and a simple GRAMA request would be able to secure them.

Harsin is an adult and I'm sure if him or his representative have an interest in the position and do have a legitimate lingering concern about Utah State Athletics, I have no doubt they have the intelligence and wherewithal to bring it up and discuss it.

For Harsin, what better situation exists than something like a great final run at a place like Utah State as they transition into the PAC for a run of 5-7 years, as he grooms a rising young coach, like Dreillng to take ove when he choses to ride off into retirement.

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And it looks like any FCS is not an option for the Mountain West with the House Settlement issues going on.  This won't hurt the Mountain West as they already have the teams they need.  Worse case scenario, they grab New Mexico State.  

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Supposedly, NDSU wants full invite, but MW is thinking football only, which maybe the hangup. Personally they should have gone for the Montana schools, but maybe MW is not all in. 

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On 11/24/2024 at 3:30 PM, smithy said:

Supposedly, NDSU wants full invite, but MW is thinking football only, which maybe the hangup. Personally they should have gone for the Montana schools, but maybe MW is not all in. 

I also heard the SEC and Big 10 are opposed to adding any FCS schools.

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On 11/25/2024 at 10:44 AM, PlayersinVegas said:

I under stand why the Big would oppose as their teams lose to FCS schools lol..... 

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Idaho State was an FBS program when they beat Utah State in 2000. Both Idaho and Idaho State dropped to FCS play after the WAC imploded. Just FYI. 

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Little birds are telling me the PAC media rights valuations are going exceptionally well. So well that UCONN and up to 2-6 additional teams from the AAC are in discussions to potentially make the jump after the end of the year. As in…it is happening.

Wanted to check here to see if anyone had heard the same. 

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On 11/25/2024 at 10:44 AM, SteedLaw said:

Little birds are telling me the PAC media rights valuations are going exceptionally well. So well that UCONN and up to 2-6 additional teams from the AAC are in discussions to potentially make the jump after the end of the year. As in…it is happening.

Wanted to check here to see if anyone had heard the same. 

Congratulations if true

 

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On 11/25/2024 at 10:40 AM, SteedLaw said:

Idaho State was an FBS program when they beat Utah State in 2000. Both Idaho and Idaho State dropped to FCS play after the WAC imploded. Just FYI. 

Idaho State was a big sky member when they beat utah state their whole schedule that year was big sky members aside from Utah state and Montana tech 

 

Just fyi 🫡 

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On 11/25/2024 at 11:40 AM, SteedLaw said:

Idaho State was an FBS program when they beat Utah State in 2000. Both Idaho and Idaho State dropped to FCS play after the WAC imploded. Just FYI. 

 

On 11/25/2024 at 2:00 PM, PlayersinVegas said:

Idaho State was a big sky member when they beat utah state their whole schedule that year was big sky members aside from Utah state and Montana tech 

 

Just fyi 🫡 

Yip.  Idaho State has never been FBS.

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On 11/25/2024 at 5:17 PM, SteedLaw said:
On 11/25/2024 at 1:28 PM, UofNPackFan said:

Congratulations if true

 

 

Hearing UConn, Memphis, Tulane, and USF are in. 
 

Also a report from Canzano sayin UNLV may still be in the running, but that one makes no sense to me and I can’t see how that would work. 

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On 11/25/2024 at 9:44 AM, PlayersinVegas said:

I under stand why the Big would oppose as their teams lose to FCS schools lol..... 

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Sacramento State beat Stanford in 2923.

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On 11/25/2024 at 10:44 AM, SteedLaw said:

Little birds are telling me the PAC media rights valuations are going exceptionally well. So well that UCONN and up to 2-6 additional teams from the AAC are in discussions to potentially make the jump after the end of the year. As in…it is happening.

Wanted to check here to see if anyone had heard the same. 

Wondering if OCTAGON is really turning the screws to get this deal done for the nPAC. If so, hopefully they can add some more BB only schools to the mix and help the nPAC develop a whole separate BB division. Just like how Brett Yormark is trying to do for the B12. 

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On 11/26/2024 at 9:11 AM, ashnel said:

Sacramento State beat Stanford in 2923.

I feel a little like I imagine Marty McFly must have felt when purchasing that sports almanac in 2015.  I just hope I'm still alive in 2923 to be able to make the biggest sports bet ever.

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On 11/25/2024 at 9:42 PM, SteedLaw said:

Hearing UConn, Memphis, Tulane, and USF are in. 
 

Also a report from Canzano sayin UNLV may still be in the running, but that one makes no sense to me and I can’t see how that would work. 

The only way UNLV leaves the MWC is if the MWC doesn't get the $$ it promised them from the future PAC schools and I don't see that happening. The PAC screwed up not inviting them initially into the PAC with the other 3 schools.

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On 11/27/2024 at 9:36 PM, utgrizfan said:

The only way UNLV leaves the MWC is if the MWC doesn't get the $$ it promised them from the future PAC schools and I don't see that happening. The PAC screwed up not inviting them initially into the PAC with the other 3 schools.

The only way?  

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On 11/4/2024 at 5:30 PM, WAC_FAN said:

Honest question--do you think USU is capable of getting any A-List or B-List coach until you're clear your Title IX NCAA investigation?  It seems like no coach is going to want to go there until any potential penalties are known.  If Harsin has only 5-7 years left, he doesn't want t spend 3 of them on a team with not a level playing field.

That may be true. 

If Harsin has desires to continue to coach, does he have the chops to rein in a position substantially better than the PAC bound USU job?  

Don't flame,  While Hill or Mendenhallor some others make decent hires at this juncture for Utah State, Harsin be the kind of hire that would really set the program on fire.  IMHO..

I'm just asking for other's opinion for a friend,

 

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