Loyal Coug1 said:

Yes I watched most of it. Congratulations! Now back to my pity party......

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You guys should 100% poach Jay Norvell from CSU. If for no other reason than the hilarity of it.

Tell your Coug brethren welcome to the G5..

Sorry I mean G6.

TimothyC3 said:

I disagree. All the G5-PAC2 has is Boise. Nothing more. No one else has a national reputation or appeal. They are all G5. If that wasn't the case why haven't the TV networks jumped and offered? Why are they struggling to find the 8th football member?

Here's why the PAC leadership doesn't have a clue. This year the current MWC has two teams ranked in the top 25 for most of the year. With the merger and 14 members there could be years where the MWC had 3 ranked teams. Now we are talking and competing with the B12 by having a similar number of teams with top 25 rankings and when the playoffs expand to 16 teams the merged PAC-MWC could make a strong argument that they deserve a auto bid. Not now!

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Boise is the best for sure.

But SDSU, CSU, USU, and Fresno has generally been better than every team in the leftover MW other than AFA, SJSU, and not until recently UNLV.

They have some of the best attendance numbers, despite most of them having down years. USU was towards the bottom, but they did have some significant coach turmoil. They had one of the biggest delta's over last season. With Bronco, it would be safe to say that their attendance bounces back quite a bit.


Competitively? Sure hard to say, though historically overall the PAC definitely stronger in football., recently not as much.

Basketball it isn't even close.

UNLV is in the drivers seat for MW football now, AFA and SJSU should be near the top, then it drops off significantly, Their bottom would be our middle, our bottom is well way down there.

SO yes overall SOS will be much stronger. And yes any MW team better have some notable OOC upsets. The PAC is going to win any tiebreakers if it comes down to that playoff spot.

The PAC has a clue, which is why they are separating to begin with. The MW has a lot of dead weight with media value and competitiveness. The MW is adding teams, but many have been teams of little value, that will likely drop media payouts for everyone.

The PAC knew what they were looking at with a merger. They are going through all of this trouble because it is worth it. Conference realignment has and always been about money.

So I think they will easily get more annual contract money. I think it is hard to argue that. It is really a question of how much

Lost Charles Correa

Lost Chittenden

Bullmastiff 1 said:

Not sure if you noticed but UNLV singlehandedly defeated communism tonight.

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Yes I watched most of it. Congratulations! Now back to my pity party......

Lost Jalen St John, probably has eligibility left as a grad transfer.

Rosegreen1 said:

He’s going to get paid. Probably Purdue bound, if I’m guessing going with Odom and Scherer.

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I hadn't heard Scherer was going to Purdue I thought that was just our own assumption

rickyb55 said:

The qb’s this year had 25 TD’s and 6 INT’s,
Last years qb’s had 17 TD’s and 12 INT’s
So the qb play wasn’t as bad as you think, yeah less passing yards but the team made it up in rushing yards. Combined total offense this year vs last year there is about 100yd difference.

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Our running game was a lot better this year which opens up the passing game. Hajj missed a lot of wide open guys Maiava wouldn't have. It would have been different more TD's and more picks but overall he is better than Hajj.

saulpaul21 said:

Do we have stats on first downs this year vs last year? That is where I think it would show that this year's offense did not move the ball consistently. Did they move it in big chunk plays this year? Yes.

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296 This year

That's from the team website, but I don't believe they added last night's stats in yet. We had 12 yesterday.

Rosegreen1 said:

He’s going to get paid. Probably Purdue bound, if I’m guessing going with Odom and Scherer.

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We have a pretty good NIL budget now he would be a worthy target.

1Tripoda said:

As the OC?

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Most likely QB coach, OC would just be a title. He’s not calling plays.

rickyb55 said:

The qb’s this year had 25 TD’s and 6 INT’s,
Last years qb’s had 17 TD’s and 12 INT’s
So the qb play wasn’t as bad as you think, yeah less passing yards but the team made it up in rushing yards. Combined total offense this year vs last year there is about 100yd difference.

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Complementary football. Also a lot of credit goes to the center, Hasz in directing the line in pass pro.

1Tripoda said:

As the OC?

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Dan doesn't hire an OC, he calls his own plays. He hires position coaches to help in Offense role. At Florida he had 2 guys helping him, the line coach and TE coach.

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As the OC?

Do we have stats on first downs this year vs last year? That is where I think it would show that this year's offense did not move the ball consistently. Did they move it in big chunk plays this year? Yes.

j. spilotro said:

I’d rather had played in the playoff and been smoked …. And that’s what would have happened. Don’t know why he regressed so badly but he ended the season with a Steve Sax or Armani Rogers syndrome.

But was also thinking …. Let’s say we beat Syracuse (OT loss) and beat Boise regular season (tight home loss) and then lost to Boise in the MWC championship …. We’d have likely ended up in the same spot as last night …. A better season overall, much better …. But we’d be feeling a hell of a lot worse.

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If UNLV's only loss was to Boise State in the title game, it would have created a nightmare for committee.

UNLV would likely have been ranked top 10 especially with Syracuse beating Miami.

Man, I don't know if they still make it in or not...

saulpaul21 said:

Amazing we won 11 games with qbs that were so bad at passing. Offense the year before was way better at consistently moving the ball. Our stats only look good cuz of the big plays we had this year.

Last years qb with this year's team? I think we would be undefeated and in Boises spot. Anyone think different?

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The qb’s this year had 25 TD’s and 6 INT’s,
Last years qb’s had 17 TD’s and 12 INT’s
So the qb play wasn’t as bad as you think, yeah less passing yards but the team made it up in rushing yards. Combined total offense this year vs last year there is about 100yd difference.

Rosegreen1 said:

Funny you mention Snyder, that IS the model that Harper keeps citing in his pressers when it comes to who he’s looking for or how the program should be run. Harper played under Snyder and knows who the real McCoy is when he’s interviewing coaches for the job.

He truly values hard work and as a result something special could be brewing here long term.

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The fact Harper played under Synder, something I didn't know, makes complete sense. He knows UNLV could be turned around after 40 years of ineptitude because he was part of a similar transformation. Cool connection.

j. spilotro said:

He really turned the corner too.

UNLV still has severe limitations vs the big schools. And it’ll keep happening.

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SJSU's coach compared the portal to window shopping. "So and so has entered the portal. That's NICE! Damn we can't afford that! Next!"

He’s going to get paid. Probably Purdue bound, if I’m guessing going with Odom and Scherer.

Damn hopefully Mullen changes his mind.