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Joining the Mountain West would run an $8MM - $9MM annual deficit - can we overcome that?

“What the NIL is presenting is not sustainable,” Deion Sanders said to ESPN on February 6. “Oftentimes, it seems like you see the same consistency of teams winning and winning and winning because of the finances that some of the boosters and the donors can give. But that needs to be fixed, and we need some type of commissioner. And we need somebody to step up and make sure we’re doing this thing in unison.”
 
alabamagrizzly said:
Depends on who you ask. I work with several people that think he's the bee's knees. Love the idea of a cage match on the white house lawn for his birthday.
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Could be worse, they could have a bunch of Trans people getting topless and/or exposing themselves on the front lawn in front of children.

But we're now getting way too off track on this thread. As pointed out earlier many are still content to hang out in FCS which I do personally find disappointing. Still holding out hope the new President has the vision to at least try and get Football to the level we should be playing at.
 
Ut-Grizfan said:
Could be worse, they could have a bunch of Trans people getting topless and/or exposing themselves on the front lawn in front of children.

But we're now getting way too off track on this thread. As pointed out earlier many are still content to hang out in FCS which I do personally find disappointing. Still holding out hope the new President has the vision to at least try and get Football to the level we should be playing at.
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The level we should be playing at as a flagship university is the Big 12 or comparable P4 but everyone tells me that is not possible.
 
Ut-Grizfan said:
Could be worse, they could have a bunch of Trans people getting topless and/or exposing themselves on the front lawn in front of children.

But we're now getting way too off track on this thread. As pointed out earlier many are still content to hang out in FCS which I do personally find disappointing. Still holding out hope the new President has the vision to at least try and get Football to the level we should be playing at.
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Saying something "could be worse" doesn't exactly make it even mediocre.
 
Ut-Grizfan said:
The MWC would be a great spot, I personally think it'd be awesome to play teams like Wyoming, Nevada, NDSU and New Mexico every year.
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The MWC would mean playing games on weeknights with crowds that aren’t bigger than WaGriz. Some of the individual opponents of the MWC would be cool to play but it isn’t worth it to join the conference in my opinion. NDSU is the only team you mentioned that has had any kind of sustained football success. Nevada, Wyoming and New Mexico if Eck leaves are all a joke.
 
5280Griz said:
The MWC would mean playing games on weeknights with crowds that aren’t bigger than WaGriz. Some of the individual opponents of the MWC would be cool to play but it isn’t worth it to join the conference in my opinion. NDSU is the only team you mentioned that has had any kind of sustained football success. Nevada, Wyoming and New Mexico if Eck leaves are all a joke.
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Interesting. Because every game for NDSU as a MWC member is on Saturdays except for the last game of the year at San Jose State which is on a Friday afternoon...

Even more interesting, every Mountain West Conference team plays on Saturdays this fall except for Wyoming @ San Jose State on Friday, Oct 8 (7:00 PM), Air Force @ Wyoming on Friday, Oct 23 (7:00 PM), New Mexico @ Nevada on Friday, Nov 7 (7:00 PM), UTEP @ Air Force on Friday Nov 20 (6:00 PM).

So yeah... the Mountain West is not really all that different than the Big Sky game schedule.
 
5280Griz said:
The level we should be playing at as a flagship university is the Big 12 or comparable P4 but everyone tells me that is not possible.
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get'em_griz said:
Interesting. Because every game for NDSU as a MWC member is on Saturdays except for the last game of the year at San Jose State which is on a Friday afternoon...

Even more interesting, every Mountain West Conference team plays on Saturdays this fall except for Wyoming @ San Jose State on Friday, Oct 8 (7:00 PM), Air Force @ Wyoming on Friday, Oct 23 (7:00 PM), New Mexico @ Nevada on Friday, Nov 7 (7:00 PM), UTEP @ Air Force on Friday Nov 20 (6:00 PM).

So yeah... the Mountain West is not really all that different than the Big Sky game schedule.
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Interesting that the MWC looks like they are pretty similar this season by having less games on national TV and more on weekends.
 
Ut-Grizfan said:
Could be worse, they could have a bunch of Trans people getting topless and/or exposing themselves on the front lawn in front of children.

But we're now getting way too off track on this thread. As pointed out earlier many are still content to hang out in FCS which I do personally find disappointing. Still holding out hope the new President has the vision to at least try and get Football to the level we should be playing at.
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The main problem for fans/supporters of UM Football is once they go FBS, it will limit the number of local Montana players being able to play at that level. Look at the roster of Boise State, Boise has a lot of good football players that play D1 and FCS, but Boise State only has between 4-6 local kids on the team each year. Most of their players come from CA.
 
MontanaGrizSoccer said:
The main problem for fans/supporters of UM Football is once they go FBS, it will limit the number of local Montana players being able to play at that level. Look at the roster of Boise State, Boise has a lot of good football players that play D1 and FCS, but Boise State only has between 4-6 local kids on the team each year. Most of their players come from CA.
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Sounds like the Frontier is the ticket. Griz can load up the roster with Montana kids.
 
MontanaGrizSoccer said:
The main problem for fans/supporters of UM Football is once they go FBS, it will limit the number of local Montana players being able to play at that level. Look at the roster of Boise State, Boise has a lot of good football players that play D1 and FCS, but Boise State only has between 4-6 local kids on the team each year. Most of their players come from CA.
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Moving to the FBS may have an adjustment with the number of Montana players being able to play for the program, but with NIL and the new era of college football, that doesn't really mean squat anymore. I would counterargue that being categorized as an FBS program would mean we have a better shot of keeping the top in-state talent in Missoula or Bozeman, especially with NIL now. Just because Montana could potentially be FBS someday in the near future doesn't mean we have to fully abandon the tradition of building this program on home-grown talent. But we need to be tactical about realizing the landscape has changed and if we truly want to be competitive and win at whatever level we are at, we need to have a healthy dose of both in-state and out-of-state recruits. Montana State has been killing us with that approach in the last decade.
 
MontanaGrizSoccer said:
The main problem for fans/supporters of UM Football is once they go FBS, it will limit the number of local Montana players being able to play at that level. Look at the roster of Boise State, Boise has a lot of good football players that play D1 and FCS, but Boise State only has between 4-6 local kids on the team each year. Most of their players come from CA.
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Maybe you see that as the main problem; please excuse me if I don't.
 
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