That’s why I had journalist in quotation marks, in this world the lines are extremely blurry. I think we can all agree it’s broadly considered MEDIA.
With the role that social media, disinformation and misinformation play in our society I believe it is critically important to try and make it as non blurry as possible. One is journalism, one is not.
Bingo.
Speaking just to football, the FCS and the BSC are worse now than they ever have been. No more JMU, APP state, Jacksonville State, Sam Houston, UMass, those are just the ones off the top of my head. Who are we going to lose to? 13-2 is easy when we play Sacred Heart, Central Washington, Idaho state, and EWU. Although we still almost blew the EWU and Idaho state games.
I don't think the Big Sky is nearly as weak as some would make it out to be, and it just hasn't been a two team race other than the last couple of years.
Weak compared to what? FBS conferences?
You’re right, it’s only been the last couple years that the BSC became a 2 team race every year. I think that we will only see UCD and Idaho flirt with contending. But do you see any other teams breaking into the top tier of the conference? I do not, and I’d challenge anyone to argue a case in favor of any of those other teams.
The MVFC but that is it for the FCS and the top of the Big Sky is probably equal to the top of the MVFC now that the Big Sky won a championship. The middle of the conference the MVFC is stronger. The bottom of the MVFC is probably just as bad as the bottom of the Big Sky though.
I was just disagreeing about the conference only being a two team race. Obviously I hate that Montana only has one.
NIL has completely changed that IMO, I doubt we will see any of the lower to mid Big Sky teams winning or in competition for the Big Sky nearly as often. As of now it's the Cats Conference and we are up there along with Davis, might be 1 or 2 others who could sneak in depending on the year but that's the new normal.
Why would NIL make it the Montana conference when NAU and Weber are larger schools closer to major metro areas with a lot of money?
The two wins were also "absolute BLOWOUTS.
No offense intended here, but I don't think that claim can really be made unless we know the amount in the NIL accounts for all the other schools. The Montana schools have also been capped from above on what they can spend at it. Has Weber or Davis been capped? How much has poured into NAU?
Have they shown any ability to tap those resources for substantial NIL donations?
Them not showing the ability to yet doesn’t mean that the right people won’t be able to in the future.
Doesn't mean they will either.
It is definitely a bit of an unknown but it seems out of any other Big Sky schools the Montanas are willing to invest and spend more then most. It could change but as of now outside of Davis (and even then thats only been recently) no one else has really shown a willingness to invest in Football, actions > potential.
Watch out for Weber, maybe not this season but in 2-3 years I think they have potential to be really good based on what they are building. Their new coach has connections to all the big high schools around SLC and they got Devin Brown who played at Corner Canyon in high school and was a 4 star prospect coming in at qb from Cal.
