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I agree with this but I knew they weren’t going to shore up everything on defense in one cycle. Was hoping they’d bring in some better LBs. Guess we’ll start seeing what we got in two weeks.

Ha, I was thinking we’re not in West Texas enough.

Davis ain’t a bad place to be.

Might have to road trip to Bozeman as well.

I went by how many teams each league had ranked in the 100s. All of this is subjective but trying to pinpoint exactly where an individual team should be ranked is REALLY subjective. Plus one team (ULM) shouldn’t matter so much.

The top is better in the American but surprisingly the bottom five in the AAC are worse than the Belt. Not sure how many head to heads there are but wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up close to even on the field depending on the matchups. We better win both of ours.

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Damn, couldn't have written it better myself. I'm with you, I see the PAC having very little leverage. For some reason the thing that makes the most sense to me is a merger happening but Stanford and Cal getting some sort of scheduling guarantee.

That dude from Idaho that Craig Jones laid out is still seeing stars.

He was the leading rusher in attempts (barely) for ULM. That’s insane.

Than appearing in a national championship game?!?!? You and I have seen two win seasons. They suck. No matter who the competition is.

I took less than a second to choose so might want to make it a bit harder to decide.

The MWC deadline was June 30th. Technically a school could still leave for 2024 but it would cost $34 mil. I think I saw the AAC rule was $15 mile for less than 27 months notice, $10 mil for more than that but the AAC negotiated with the previous teams leaving. Then again, don't quote me on that. The MWC isn't negotiating anything.

I'm not sure of your point. I don't care who the QB is, they'll need to make plays with their feet. When it's third and nine and no one is open they need to get the first down with their feet. When it's third and two, the defense needs to know the QB is an option. And I don't mean once a game. If Stone provides that, awesome.

If it's six rushes for 36-40 yards that works. If it's two rushes for 12 yards....I think we'll need more production than that. There's no magic number, I just want the QB to be a threat. Harris was UTSA's third leading rusher with 600 yards and nine TDs. His yards per carry wasn't amazing but he made you pay a few times a game. That's all I'm hoping for.

My two cents on the quarterbacks- We're basically going to have two types of games this year, games where we can run the ball and games that the other team holds our running backs in check. The games we can run the ball the quarterback can go 13-20 for 150 yards and we'll be okay. When we can't run the ball don't expect the quarterback to toss the ball around. Ward had 5 games over 300 yards last year and they went 2-3. Both of those wins were against lousy teams. I just don't think this kind of offense is going to light up the passing game. We averaged 460 yds a games last year. WSU averaged 360 yards. WSU also held the opponent under 25 pts a game in nine games. We did it four times. Which means the quarterback needs to make plays with his legs. To me the perfect game with any of these quarterbacks is about 200-240 yards passing and at least 40 yards rushing. Morris may be from the Leach tree but don't expect that this year. Expect a pretty patient offense no matter who is the quarterback.

Touché. We should do pretty well if that happens

I have full faith in Coach Morris and his staff making this decision and I have zero personal preference. But I'm also going to be the killjoy and say averaging 150 ppg and 15 yards rushing per game in today's college football is pretty pedestrian. Whoever gets the job has to make some plays down the field each game. Or we are going to be easier to defend.

You need to be 6-1 in late Oct against a good opponent.

This is a bit, right?

Only one is alleged to bet against his school . Im not saying your post was controversial I was just curious to what you meant by consequences. I agree with everything you said except I’m not seeing a big wave of throwing games happening.

The AAC needs to get creative in its scheduling. What if every first game was a conference game? Or every first game was a non conference game against a team from the other division? When most every other schools are playing a lackluster first game, the AAC should try to own that first weekend. Take over PAC after dark.

Numerous probably wasn’t the right word but it’s happened four or five times since 1980 if you count basketball. Also, I haven’t seen any charges of trying to fix a game in this story. This is mostly betting underage and then tampering with records to avoid the authorities. I don’t think the main issue is going to be throwing games, it’s going to be betting either when you’re underage or betting on sports you shouldn’t.

There’s no doubt issues will happen but we’ve had numerous point shaving scandals when betting was illegal. And I guarantee players have bet on games in the past, just no way to find out. Players will have to learn the hard way, you can’t do this. I can’t see any scenario where a coach gets involved, they make too much money. And yes, I sometimes bet, mostly on football and always in person at a local casino. Like other things in our society, you don’t follow the rules you suffer the consequences.

Just curious, what consequences do you mean?