Re: A new and better FBS thread
Originally Posted by
Hammersmith
Just another example of how geography hurts our FBS chances. Some G5 conferences put a higher emphasis on basketball than others. It just so happens that the closest G5 conferences to us are both ones that feel that way(MWC & MAC). The G5 conferences that put the highest priority on football over basketball all happen to be the furthest from us. This is not our fault and it's not their fault. It's okay for them to have priorities different from ours. But it does put us in a rougher situation than we would have if we happened to be located in Texas, for instance. Personally, I'm all for finding a way to reallocate another million or so a year to MBB(and a decent amount to WBB) in order to beef up the program. A big chunk of that to coaching salaries to bring in better and/or more experienced coaches(including head), as well as a larger recruiting budget and spending more on guarantee games to improve the schedule. But it's not my money or my decision.
BTW, do any of you get dizzy in this thread? As a mostly outside observer on this thread, it just feels like a high-speed merry-go-round with the same dozen people saying the same dozen things over and over and over. Not saying you have to stop or anything, just wondering out loud why some of you bother? Nobodies' minds are being changed, so it feels like Einstein's definition of insanity playing out.
A) it’s the off-season (or at least has been)
B) there are major realignments, governmental and post season structural changes that have all taken place in the last couple of months
C) the ramifications of moving to FBS have about 1,000x the impact to the future of our university than one of our kids running a route correctly or some play getting called
D) conference realignment is fun to me in the “game of thrones” political sense
Yes, the mountain west has an increased attention towards basketball, but football still drives the bus. There are plenty of great basketball programs on the west coast and all have a 0% chance of getting into the Mountain West unless they got their football program to the level ours is at. Yes, basketball is not helping us but it’s not the most important thing to the conference. And our basketball program is not bad, it just wouldn’t be top half of the league in year one. I would think that’s okay…
Mountain West, hope for the best.
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