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I think that Miles will be in a media role, also. That said, I can also see him coaching again, too. If Gundy ever leaves OSU, I can see T Boone buying Les Miles back to Stillwater.

Not by themselves, they don't. The B1G is all about the AAU membership that brings in research dollars. Only Nebraska in the B1G is not AAU, and they lost that accreditation just AFTER gaining membership. Currently, in the Big XII, UT, ISU, and KU are your AAU members. Kansas may suck fiercely at football, but they bring the academics, basketball revenue and pedigree, and the KC market. They will find a home when the final reshuffling occurs. I still think the most likely scenario is the Texoma 4 go west, KU goes to the B1G, along with another AAU school, probably Mizzou, who wanted B1G membership and fits more closely with the B1G than the SEC culturally. That gets you to 16 in the PAC, and 16 in the B1G. The SEC probably just replaces Missouri with Kansas State, West Virginia, and a school in a new market like East Carolina, which gets them into the North Carolina TV markets. I think the ACC will invite cincy to be their 16th member, which includes notre dame staying affiliated with them. Thats your Power Four. I believe the power four will allow the next level of schools to still play them, even throwing them the bone of being able to have access to a non-playoff big bowl like they do now. I believe that the teams that will be allowed to fit in this category will be in two main conferences--a western based league and an eastern based league, each with 16 members, as well. If the AAC loses East carolina and Cincy, and if UConn goes independent in football but joins the Big east in hoops, which i believe will happen, the AAC will be down to 9 teams. The MWC has 12. BYU and Army will get included in this group, which gives you 23 teams. That leaves 13 spots to fill from the ranks of the MAC, CUSA, and SBC. The belief is now that we appear to be getting the right leadership in place, we can get into this collection of non-power FBS teams.

The problem is that the team he scheduled as a "should win" for many years ahead bring nobody new to the game to see us beat someone we should beat, and if we lose, its terrible for a school in our situation. We suffered the worst loss in modern college football history with his scheduling, surrounding that loss with even other disastrous losses. And there is a reason Wren Baker is trying to fix the schedule--it is not good to only get SMU or Army to join a FCS as your home opponents in a stadium as nice as this in a location this advantageous to recruits. RV's lasting legacies are that he opened up tailgating, had 17 big money guys do what he needed to do funding-wise above the university's funding, couldn't hire a revenue sport coach to save his career, and scheduled as poorly as an AD could do with Apogee as the stadium to host the games.

I agree here, Lifer. 2013 showed there is interest if we can build up a winner. Marketing from an AD who actually tried something might have helped us, but it goes back to not being associated with a winner. The thing that people don't realize is just how powerful the influence of others really is for going to college football games. People want to go to games that others will be at--in other words, most fans don't want to go to games where there are more open seats around them than full seats. Sure, there are diehards that go to our home games, rain or shine, hot or cold, FCS or FBS, etc...but the love of being able to tell their buddies that I've been to every game to watch us play since whenever loses its luster when there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately for us, since the Dickey SBC run was winding down, the light at the end of the tunnel ended up just being a train--Dickey wins 5 games in his last two seasons and burns every bridge he ever had built here, we hire Dodge straight from high school and we win 6 games in his tenure here. We hire McCarney, who talks a good game and takes Dodge's recruits and puts them into an actual college regiment and builds it up to bowl winner in 2013, only to watch it colossally end in failure just a year and a half later. And now we have Littrell, who looks and talks the part, but has to deal with almost no talent for his schemes. We sure hope the light we see is in fact, the sun, not a brand new train again, ready to bowl us over in another couple of years. I think Wren Baker is going to really make us feel better going forward, but he's gonna have to have a winner to help make this thing work. Even if RV wasn't a terrible and lazy AD, the product we have spoon-fed our fans in the last 11+ years has been absolutely unacceptable. No amount of marketing would have made the Dodge years any better, nor would it have made the last two Mac years any less embarrassing.

And shows his dedication to meanness by really getting back at posters with the power of DOWNVOTING!!! Snowflakes gonna snowflake...

And even if he did, who cares about down or up votes on your posts? Its not you are winning or losing anything based on your vote totals...

This is what some of us have been trying to say for awhile. Littrell's system is 180 degrees different from McCarney's and these guys were mostly low-rated recruits that came here to run his decrepit office. Just like we saw this week, with a great recruiting pickup of a guy that is damn-near a 4* kid, the future is only brighter with these kinds of roster additions. He's got to get talent here that fits his system. I think we can see that they system works when it has the right personnel. He just has to keep winning these battles...

This is exactly how you fix the locker room issues we had last year with the team quitting on the university. You get a fired up coach who makes it clear that if you'll go hard, Ill back you up. If you won't, you need to leave.

To me, this is where the university and Hayden Fry were short-sighted when it came to our big time college football aspirations. Rather than putting all of our eggs in the SWC basket, which had the state and the MEtroplex completely covered, we should have put the Big Eight in a position to fight over us with the SWC. If we had talked to the Big Eight about getting a foothold in DFW, opening up recruiting for all of their schools for TX HS kids even more than they already had at the time, and allowed their alumni bases to have a chance to see them annually in the Metroplex (Beyond just OU), it would have either gotten us in up there or it would have made the SWC stop and realize that allowing the Oklahoma schools, Nebraska, and Colorado to get into the state even further would have been disastrous for them. But instead, the SWC said no way, led by the privates up here in North Texas, and we flat out decided to basically give up.

I picked us to win 2 games this year, at home against BC and at UTSA. But, I'm going to swap out the win @UTSA with a win at Rice. Rice looks bad--I am glad this game is early in the season and that we are relatively healthy right now. I see us winning a shootout, 37-35.

THIS is a great win for us this year!! As Ive said, the scoreboard this year doesn't matter nearly as much as the Recruiting wins we get during the weeks ahead!! Great job, staff!!

The schedule is just a reality we have to accept going forward, unless the university pays to buyout contracts and pay for other opponents to get here. For a place that doesn't have that kind of funds, that easy million dollar check isn't going away. It's the buying out of FCS games that would change things here. The effects of RV's laziness at scheduling to a brand new stadium near DFW are going to be felt for years to come if nothing changes.

We were always going to be a 1-2 win team this season. Losing to Florida while getting a million dollars doesn't change that. Littrell, Harrell, and Fine are learning on the fly, with returning players who don't fit his system at all. Plus, he has had to already run off several scholarship guys who showed they'll quit on the university in a heartbeat. The rebuild here is colossal in its enormity. It's hard to accept as fans, but it's why watching the scoreboard this year isnt the way to gauge success here--it's ALL about the results we see in recruiting, meaning the biggest wins this year will be in the locker rooms and living rooms across the state, not on the field.

Earlier this year, I went thru two different G5 rankings to assess the best G5 conferences, based on overall average of the rankings of the teams in each league. The SBC was last, followed by CUSA, then the MAC. So far, this year, Marshall got pole axed by Akron, UTEP and Rice have been crushed by Army, USM got beat by Troy, and FIU lost to the team that many figured was one of the three worst in the country, UMass. From what I've seen so far, La Tech should walk away with CUSA West, just because the other teams aren't very good in the division, although USM is better than they showed tonight. And I guess MUTS and WKU are the teams to beat out East. But overall, the conference seems way down compared to seasons past.

This was a really bad day. Army beating anyone by 52 points is not a real good sign for your conference, as well as FIU losing to a team that many believed were as bad as us in the early preseason polls. The conference is Just very down right now...

They would finish in the top half or higher in the Big XII right now...

NDSU does it again--beats Iowa 23-21

I'm interested in seeing if OU can give tOSU a game tonight in Norman.

Mizzou is probably the easiest opponent on this list.

It's also Pay Day...

TBH, Arkansas State, ULL, and Texas State would be fine OOC opponents over the FCS spares...but again, that requires us to have 5 home games in some seasons if we are still playing body bag games. Its all a moot point, though, if the FCS contracts cannot be broken without huge costs.

Even if it's that scenario, where do you think Miami gets more recruits from, DFW or Podunk Boone, NC?

I've got no problem with SBC West teams...

SMU, TCU, and Baylor have $$$$. We don't--we have higher students/alums than they do, though. Who is going to come watch us play Butt Cookman besides the diehards here? My point is that we need money and we need wins over teams that generic fans care about. You can argue the merits of caring about other G5s like SMU and Army, but absolutely no one cares about FCS schools around here, except for a few who have friends at SFA or SHSU. Ironically, I'm glad we had Butt Cookman on our schedule this year--it's given our team and fans a chance to enjoy a win of some sort. But if that game is played in front of 16k, that means almost 15k seats were empty. So, we won a game on the scoreboard, but basically that game cost us a lot of money..:

For a Friday night game, UTSA has a really nice crowd tonight at the Alamodome for Arizona State. BTW. ASU probably had 30 points at this point in the game last week against Texas Tech's _efense...