meanrob

Been saying this for a while but it will be interesting to see how it goes over with these fan bases. I mean Nebraska is still pretty delusional ten years later. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/columnist/dan-wolken/2023/08/11/pac-12-doomed-leaders-arrogance-envy-big-12/70577317007/

Yes I’m being glass half empty on this but I don’t ever remember a three way battle where no one pulls away being a good thing. We’ve had plenty of no starter named til late in camp over the years and it’s never ideal. And two of them have FBS game experience.

Road trip for Meanrob!!!!

I could be wrong but I think you are WAY oversimplifying this process.

I think you’re assuming the PAC 4 are in the same page. And considering Stanford and Cal just tried to bail on me, if I’m the other two I’m not on the same page with them.

That was joining an existing tv contract.

I’m gonna take a wild swing and say Stanford/Cal aren’t driving the bus on this. Granted, it’s a big IF but if the AAC or MW stand their ground, they actually hold the cards. I think there’s no chance Stanford rebuilds the PAC by convincing teams to come.

I don’t think anywhere near $15 mil. And I’m not sold that Stanford would align themselves with those schools anyway. Not sure any of the current PAC schools trust their current conference leadership so you’d have to replace that. Then get the feelers out on what kind of tv deal is out there. And deal with the uncertainty of what Cal and Stanford want and if I’m the AAC or MW, I’m not giving them what they initially want. I just don’t see the PAC in a strong position on this.

Well, his OC was an offensive analyst at Alabama (not sure what to read into that) and his DC he got from……he was his DC at his high school job.

He may give them a boost on offense but he’ll be back at the high school level within three years.

This is weird that Stanford is talking about resolution by the end of the week yet everything is pretty quiet from the conferences. Not sure if this is a good thing or not. ACC taking SMU makes no sense on its own. Cal would be royally screwed if the ACC took Stanford and SMU.

He’s been all over the map since this thing has started. I’d say he’s about as plugged in as your toaster.

That’s the only way this makes sense, although I’m not sure you can predict those dominos will fall. That would probably put us in a western division of the AAC though.

The only reason I see for the AAC to take OSU and WSU is to maybe keep them out of the MWC? Besides OSU baseball these are not successful programs in bigger markets that draw people. There’s zero interests in them as BBall programs. I just don’t know if they’re this mediocre with good money, how they’ll do with one fifth of that money. How big do we want the conference to get? At a certain point it becomes tough to get things done. Do we want a North Texas game vs WSU at 9pm CST or even later? If it means all four, I’d take them. But just the two, I think we are giving them too much credit, they are/were P5 programs only because of association.

If we’re going by North Texas State standards about 35 years.

After SDSU’s run you think their BBall credits are as much as the PACs?

Yeah the PAC really screwed themselves with no GoR and all these schools bailing next year. MWC schools can’t afford to join before 2025. I don’t see a fix for this.

This is the only proper complaint in this whole thread.

Actually, this is how it’s done. We think about Boise or TCU winning games against bigger brand opponents but almost every year they played FCS teams. The only team I remember doing this was Fresno and for a two year stretch where they had a few big upsets and got some publicity but then lost games in the MWC and didn’t build on it. Then their teams got worse and they started getting smoked. Check out Fresno 2014. If you think we should go back to playing ranked opponents, that’s a different argument.

I stopped at 2018 but from 2006-2018 TCU played an FCS team every year but one.

So Jace Ruder might break records of Gino Torretta? Or Donovan McNabb? That’s wild.

So does Aresco come out and make a statement? And if he does or doesn’t does that mean anything?

Seen it reported a few places that the Apple offer is only good through the end of the week. With what’s going on, nobody is going to sign it.

Am I weird for complaining about the “concerts” but ok scheduling FCS teams?…..don’t answer that. I’d go to Kalamazoo for a fall football game.

It’s definitely not a good possibility but neither is Stanford/Cal to MWC. Im just not sure what moves the AAC has right now. Can’t see them going for WSU or OSU. The CSU/AFA thing only happens if the PAC tries to stay alive by taking MWC teams.