Bullmastiff 1 said:

I'm 100% all in on UTEP/TEXAS STATE.

I think you need a Texas presence of some kind.

I saw some Sagrin rating model thingy posted on the Twitter. Com .

It was showing if the MWC added Montana State Montana SAC STATE Idaho I think? plus UTEP NMS that based on those additions MWC would be third rated G5.

Not great but not the disaster I assumed.

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WarthogRebel said:

30,000 expandable to 45,000.

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Masked_rebel said:

No, I think what they expected to happen was a handful of the other top MWC brands would leave and dissolve the conference avoiding fees all together. They miscalculated the conference sticking together

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Bullmastiff 1 said:

I'm 100% all in on UTEP/TEXAS STATE.

I think you need a Texas presence of some kind.

I saw some Sagrin rating model thingy posted on the Twitter. Com .

It was showing if the MWC added Montana State Montana SAC STATE Idaho I think? plus UTEP NMS that based on those additions MWC would be third rated G5.

Not great but not the disaster I assumed.

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Loyal Coug1 said:

Here I am. Fire away.

I don't even have much commentary. Jeanty kicked our ass singlehandedly. One play - he runs straight into our D lineman, just bounces off of him and tears downfield. Their blitzes killed us obviously. We had no answer. Our too-young O-Coordinator sucks. Mateer didn't play too bad, but couldn't get rid of it when blitzed (his fault or WR or both?) and we tried way too many runs up the gut by him and our RBs. Thankfull a week off before playing Fresno. I hear that they are really good.

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TimothyC3 said:

Also, what I struggle to get my mind around is this. After agreeing to pay exit fees for SDSU, Boise, CSU and Fresno, the PAC2 truely expected UNLV would jump at their different offer which required UNLV to pay $18 mill out of pocket to join a P5 conference! That was incredibly delusional! Then Gloria counters with a $30 mill bonus to stay in th MWC. That’s a no brainer and a $48 million swing. Now Gloria moves very quickly and offers Texas State. But the PAC is sitting back and twittering its thumbs trying to figure out what to do next. I have read Gloria is also in contact with UTEP.

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dcut03 said:

I really think we need to limit FCS or completely avoid them.
First 5 mill up front is a lot. More than exit fees for the other FBS teams.
Second there could be more funding needing to get them up to par on facilities.
Third and most importantly, none of them would help the media deal, at least not initially. Sac state has potential, but it wouldnt show up on our next deal. The better FCS teams are in tiny state populations without good brand recognition.
Fourth they would bring down SOS at least initially. And the basketball would be even more horrid. FCS calls ups all tend to struggle with the transition, and they have recently been joining worse conferences that us, yes even considering what the new MW will be.
I still think UTEP is better than TX St. Though I am coming around more on TX st.
Traditionally Texas St. Has the reputation in terms of their student/almuni is that they wanted to go to Texas, but couldn't get in. San Marcos is close to Austin that their student still go to UT games but go to class in San Marcos.
Now I do think that narrative is changing, but still 100% exists with many of their students. San Marcos has 70k people, El Paso has 670k.
And again UTEP, though with a smaller enrollment has more fans who prioritize UTEP.

But I think we go after both.

I think we should add NMSU, UTEP, and TX State As full time members. Still try to get the 2 Midwest schools for football only, and try to raid the WCC for some Bball only schools.

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rebel5280 said:

Is everyone so scared of Syracuse?!!

They rushed for 125 against our ex QB’s school which is not a feat by any means.
We are at home and Fresno State was no slouch, we play our game, we will beat them too! Yes they beat GT who beat a bad Florida State team, not such a big deal now.

Yes McCord can throw but do you really think the defense we have will let him throw for 350 or 400 yards, I don’t think so?

We will be fine!

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Bullmastiff 1 said:

35 to 40k Would be bigger or as big as a number of schools that recently made the jump to P4 conferences. Smu/Cincy. 40k puts you right on par with Universty of Houston another recent P4 invite.

I agree, UNLV needs to get more aggressive in tix pricing.

No matter how good UNLV gets avg 45k or more will be difficult.

Houston had good teams in the past. Has bigger population. And even when they had that solid run with Herman not so long ago topping 40/45k was difficult.

My point is if UNLV would have had an on campus stadium years ago attendance numbers likely would have been better. Just take Rebel Net, you saw how many people bitched and moaned about Sam Boyd and how far it was and used it as an excuse not to go.

We hosted teams like Wisconsin, Iowa State, Kansas State, UofA in the past at Sam Boyd.

A nice shiny new 35-40k on campus stadium would have been fine.

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Loyal Coug1 said:

Agree 100%. But yeah - Teresa is all about keeping her job. At the expense of the Pac-2 and Traitorous 5. And the MW.

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rebswin2 said:

Was there more to the Sluka story than NIL? It was a BYE week, was Hajj getting more reps? Was Sluka going to get less PT or sat all together?

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Rebel1986 said:

I still see a merge as by far the best option for both conferences, but the egos may never let that happen!

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1Tripoda said:

I've already climaxed.

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Meister_Rebel said:

A reverse merger and Gloria's idea about relegation and promotion to reward the better schools and make the poorer schools earn it would have kept a lot of money in your pockets. Theresa never would bring up the idea of relegation and promotion because Gloria thought of it first.

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