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We need to commit to winning first. Aces wins Knights win and viola money appears ! Login to view embedded media

It will be interesting to see how this works out. Budget cuts could be deep for some schools.
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Be careful if you don’t want to get your gf pregnant.

Loyal Coug1 said:

NCAA financial site:

Football Bowl Subdivision | College Athletics Database
Pretty good data. FY 2023.

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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.......

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Interesting

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Wow

Figured this had to be coming at some point

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Dave Rice is the new head coach at Salt Lake College. I hope he does well there. It’s fun following things on X or what was Twitter.

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.

What do you want UNLV to focus on? Basketball have tried and tried again. That efforts have fail bombastically and miserably. Time for football to reign. I am all for it. What do you think?

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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.

MW Post-transfer portal power rankings. It's a week old but something to look at, nonetheless. A late update from BSU: yesterday the Broncos announced the commitment of Ethan Lathan from Compass Prep (AZ). At 6-10, 190, he's gotta be considered something of a project.

Nevada Sports Net

(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

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).

I go to MW connection from time to time. They rated Transfer classes and had to say this about us:

"The Bad

UNLV

This is a difficult group to evaluate. According to 247 Sports, UNLV has the top transfer class in the Mountain West. A big part of that is quantity; the Rebels added 16 players. Three of those players are FCS transfer quarterbacks. I think Holy Cross transfer Matthew Sluka will probably win the job, but the loss of Jayden Maiava was a huge hit to this program. They also lost a number of starters on the defensive side of the ball and were hit really hard in the secondary."

Sure losing our starting QB and second team all MW QB is tough on paper. I can see why superficially that looks like a huge loss, and honestly it could be. But mentioning the secondary as a negative? Sure we lost a lot, but did they see who we have coming in? Many of those departures left because they were recruited over. Brushing off the number 1 transfer class rating as quantity over quality is very lazy. Sure not everyone is going to come in and start in this transfer class, but many are upgrades over what we have now, and would have been upgrades over what we had last season.

I am still me...this is so interesting.

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A certain team in scarlet and gray gets a couple mentions on this list. A couple notes regarding other MW teams: Note A) BYU-Wyoming: They mention how Provo is a tough place to play, yet the game is in Laramie (Go Pokes!) and, Note B) BSU at Oregon isn't mentioned, yet in the separate B1G vs P4 write-up, it gives the Broncos a 'warm' upset chance, which I think is better than Hawaii's chances vs UCLA.

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