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MWConnection Misc. - Football preview on UNLV

This guy likes what he sees in our defense. I think we all do.

FBS Revenues

NCAA financial site:

Football Bowl Subdivision | College Athletics Database
Pretty good data. FY 2023.
Replying to myself as usual. WSU in FY 2023 had the lowest Athletics revenue of any team in the Power 5. And it's not even close. We had $79 million. Oregon State is the next lowest at $91 million. Everybody else is above $100 million. Most of them? WAY above $100 million.

G5? 3 AAC teams are higher than WSU, a couple of whom are Big-12 bound. Mtn West?, SDSU is a shade above $100M. Air Force is just below us. The rest? $50-60-some million.

What's the point? OK Cougs. We don't have the resources to compete in the P4. $5 sez if you look at NIL revenues the results are similar or the same. So let's pull up our big boy pants and do the F-ing reverse merger with the MW where we should be at or near the top dog along with OSU. NOW. Effective FY 2025. QUIT DREAMING! We punched above our weight for 100 years. It's over. CSU, Wyoming, SDSU, etc. are not chopped liver. Embrace it.

Comments? Posted this on my site.......

We are toast!

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/ncaa...-unprecedented-agreement-report?intcmp=tw_fnc NO way are budget will allow us to divert money to players. So u could go to even the lower P5 schools and make 10x more money. We must have the most incompetent people in charge. We all knew this day was coming. Yet we never put us in position to attract the P5. WE are not good enough. Yet all the P5 wants to play all of their Tournaments and Championship games here. Lets face it most of these degrees these kids are playing 4(USE TO) are not worth the paper they are printed on. The NCAA got greedy with all of these rules and regulations NOW it time to pay the piper. 20 Million per school? Plus other NIL money?? Some of these kids are going to be set 4 life by the time they graduate. I do wonder how TITLE ?( what ever allows the same rides for both women and men be the same). IF they have to share the revenue equally. I would assume that day is coming also.
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2023 FB TV Viewership, etc.

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Interesting data - albeit this is only one year's worth. Didn't I read where Liberty would have been the G5 CFP representative had the 12-team setup been in place in 2023? With an average TV viewership of 21,000? 4th worst in the country and well below any of the MW.

Aside from surprising CSU (thanks to their rivalry game with Colorado), the MW's numbers are pedestrian, but not THAT horrible. Well OK Nevada and Utah State were horrible. But 5 MW teams, including UNLV, drew more than ACC-bound SMU. And CSU drew (way) more than 4 of the Pac-12 traitors and by my count 16 other P4 teams. OSU was a surprising 1.74M and WSU was 1.08M.

Looking at 2014 schedules: uw, Stanford, Oregon, Cal (and WSU and OSU) all play Big Sky teams. You guys play Utah Tech from the all over hell FCS conference. The Pac-12 traitors out West also play multiple MW teams as usual. Oregon-BSU, Cal-SDSU, UCLA-Hawaii and Fresno, Stanford-SJSU, FUSC-Utah State.

So who the hell cares and what's the point? Well, in my seemingly fleeting desire for the reverse merger, and after we wash the bitterness out of our mouths, it would make sense for all involved if the traitors replaced their Big Sky games with more PacWest (we'll call it that for this discussion) games. More fan interest and SOS for the traitors, better paydays for the PacWest teams and better SOS. Everybody wins.

There's more but I'll stop here for now.

D1 Wins Since 1980

(From Super Sports West X)

DI Football Wins Since 1980

380—BYU
348—USC
344—Oregon
332—Washington
329—Fresno St
325—Utah
323—Air Force
310—UCLA
290—ASU
271—Boise St
270—Hawaii
268—SDSU
266—Arizona
262—Wyoming
261—Stanford
252—Colorado
244—WSU
240—CSU
232—Cal
227—SJSU
219—Utah St
201—Nevada
201—Ore St
191—New Mexico
172—UNLV

Title IX

Anybody knows what getting rid of Title IX means for college athletics?

In the past, sometimes it was difficult for non-big schools to compete, because essentially you needed to add women’s sports so that the number of men’s schollies was essentially equal to the number of women schollies. And when you have football; you gotta add a lot of women’s sports to make up for the difference. It’s why you might see Women’s Track and Field and Women’s soccer and Women’s Swimming, for example, without seeing counterpart men’s teams.

Does this mean D1 colleges can dump some of the dead weight women’s teams that are just money pits?

I think it’s a bad decision, but understand the politics (I don’t agree with them at all, biologically born men shouldn’t be playing women’s sports, no ifs ands or buts about it for me).
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