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SDSU is irrelevant to the argument unless they were to come back before us and preclude our membership due to membership number limitations. Also, they may not be Rice, but they aren't as bad of a school as you seem to think. They have MANY nationally ranked programs. If your point is that the MWC is not relatively stable or would potentially be a financial disaster for us, then I beg to differ on that point. SDSU and Boise left for obvious reasons, but those reasons are fading fast. We need to be proactive, and not just stick with the status quo of sitting on our butts and letting others determine our fate. Also, your DII thoughts fit perfectly with our D1AA history, but I don't think anyone is looking in that direction. Somehow I think we'll go the way of UTA before we start scheduling Commerce.

Maybe because Rice will jump out of our bed at their first opportunity?

The best move IMO would be for us to hook up with a conference that contains flagship universities. We have NEVER done that before in our history, and it would be the next step to our possibly reaching the ultimate goal of joining a "Big 12 like" conference down the road. We've got to finally start thinking ahead, especially since some of these regional CUSA schools could abandon the current setup at any time. TCU managed to deal with the horrible pain of playing out west, so why can't we?

Looks like it. After the first couple of games the opponent just ran it down his throat. Typical one dimensional thinking.

The MWC isn't the Big West (which I remember well), and screw the payout when CUSA is looking like it's going to change as often as the U.S. tax code. Find some stability with some quality schools and be done with it for now. If in my wildest dreams they would have us.

All I get out of this thread is that we should try our best to get into the MWC ASAP. It's all about reputation and who you hang out with, and we've failed at that endeavor for decades. Get in a relatively stable conference full of flagship universities and we've reached our nirvana. At least for now.

“Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.” Double meaning?

Damn...hope you have three.

I wanted to see if this team could actually close out a game down the stretch, but I really didn't think that game would be tonight. It still may not be.

Apparently anyone can shoot against us since they are 338th in the country.

Interim...PLEASE?

I'm just happy that I logged on to see that someone compared us to a Bentley.

Time zone is pretty much a non-issue with the MWC as far as I'm concerned. Of course it's highly dependent on who comes or goes, but somewhere near half the teams in that conference would only be one hour behind us. We already have a similar issue going the other direction with CUSA. So for most of our conference road games in a two division MWC, a six o'clock road game starts here at seven, and a seven o'clock road game starts here at eight. No biggie. Of course we might sometimes miss out on the occasional 5 word comment on our game at the end of Dale Hansen's sportscast, but I could probably live with that. I do agree that the drivable games to Houston, Ruston, Tulsa, San Antonio, and to a certain extent El Paso are preferable if most of those schools don't run off and leave us. Without the addition of more CUSA schools, the long boring drive to Albuquerque, and the long drives to the three "Denver area" schools wouldn't exactly be convenient road trips. I just hope that everyone decides to stick around for now. At least until we start winning.

You wouldn't think that 3 mill. would be enough motivation for Boise or SDSU. I've got to think that they're soon to be heading back home.

Unless he's a new version of Mike Singletary. On the other hand most guys listed at five ten are actually more like five eight.

We just have to hope that their desire to be an "Eastern school" supersedes their common sense until it's too late, and that the MWC decides to grab us instead.

Which is why we should be on our knees begging the MWC for admittance before Houston, smu, Boise and SDSU head back west. Probably too late since they already see the writing on the wall.

For me, I think last night just took a little more air out of an almost flat balloon, so I guess I'm going to vote that I still have major concerns. On a scale of 1-10, my interest in this team has probably dropped from a 10 to maybe a 3 over the past month. I haven't even made the effort to see who we're playing next.

Nice to be in it. Hope we can put together two nice halves against a quality opponent.

Everyone knows this board is reserved for nothing but cheerleaders and pom poms. Come on now! Let's all get with the program!!

State or federal?

If the players know that it works then why would they not fully buy into it?

How could they possibly know this since the success of his "system" has yet to be seen anywhere?

Nice post Rick. Exactly when are we getting that baseball? Most of the others aren't really working out so well, so I'm looking forward to finding another sport to hitch my wagon to. TIA.

Take the "D" out of the thread title, and that's how I feel after buying tickets to our games this season.