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What we know about Big Sky

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dayday

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Have to say it's so wide open 2 games we don't know yet but initial thoughts....

Looking at the first two games we know nothing about the Griz. EWU is weaker but don't know truly yet. Weber and PSU are Better than advertised. Weber impressed me today. NAU will be in it with that offense but tonight they got outclassed by Missouri Valley team. Cats will compete hard but they are a year or so away from competing for the title. Cal Poly has the schedule to stay in it despite 0-3 to start. North Dakota has looked the most consistent but I like Griz matching up with them.



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dayday said:
Have to say it's so wide open 2 games we don't know yet but initial thoughts....

Looking at the first two games we know nothing about the Griz. EWU is weaker but don't know truly yet. Weber and PSU are Better than advertised. Weber impressed me today. NAU will be in it with that offense but tonight they got outclassed by Missouri Valley team. Cats will compete hard but they are a year or so away from competing for the title. Cal Poly has the schedule to stay in it despite 0-3 to start. North Dakota has looked the most consistent but I like Griz matching up with them.



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Personally, I think the big sigh is weak, very weak, once again... It's unfortunate, but...
 
I think the Big Sky has some pretty decent teams. None that have a chance to make a deep run in the playoffs, but a lot of teams are even in coaching and talent. I think the champion will be made in the last two games. Unfortunately, I do not think the Griz will be in that conversation...
 
Cal Poly is sitting at 0-3, but I honestly think they can win any game left on their schedule. Conversely there is probably not a game we could not lose if we continue making the fatal mistakes we made in our first three games. Colgate showed they are better than people gave them credit for narrowly losing to #9 Richmond and Cal Poly took a good UNI team to OT on the road.

Three toughest games looked to be NAU, PSU and Weber State and they are all home games. We also have two byes (one this week) to work on things and get players healthy. Cal Poly put up 543 yards and 35 points up against UNI on the road so it looks like the offense is starting to find their form. Still need to clean some things up, but at least we are headed in the right direction. We started the year with our 3rd OC in 3 years (One left for New Mexico and one went to Georgia Southern) and a new QB. Both had shaking starts, but looked better yesterday. Jenkins threw for 238 yards and 4 TDs and rushed for 112 yards and a TD. I think both will continue to get better as the season goes on.

Cal Poly may not win the Big Sky, but anyone thinking they are an easy out because of their 0-3 start will be in for a much tougher game than they expect.
 
Unfortunately if we lose at home to EWU, it's looking like a bad loss at this point.

At least moreso than it did two weeks ago.
 
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Cal Poly is sitting at 0-3, but I honestly think they can win any game left on their schedule. Conversely there is probably not a game we could not lose if we continue making the fatal mistakes we made in our first three games. Colgate showed they are better than people gave them credit for narrowly losing to #9 Richmond and Cal Poly took a good UNI team to OT on the road.

Three toughest games looked to be NAU, PSU and Weber State and they are all home games. We also have two byes (one this week) to work on things and get players healthy. Cal Poly put up 543 yards and 35 points up against UNI on the road so it looks like the offense is starting to find their form. Still need to clean some things up, but at least we are headed in the right direction. We started the year with our 3rd OC in 3 years (One left for New Mexico and one went to Georgia Southern) and a new QB. Both had shaking starts, but looked better yesterday. Jenkins threw for 238 yards and 4 TDs and rushed for 112 yards and a TD. I think both will continue to get better as the season goes on.

Cal Poly may not win the Big Sky, but anyone thinking they are an easy out because of their 0-3 start will be in for a much tougher game than they expect.
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CP will be in the upper tier of the bsc at the end with wsu, psu, und and maybe suu. Disappointed in ewu and um. I think msu and ucd will be the teams to beat in the next couple years. Although wsu may hang around as well. PSU will always just be an orphanage of drop down fbs players. Tons of talent but no way to sustain a program.
 
SloStang said:
Cal Poly is sitting at 0-3, but I honestly think they can win any game left on their schedule. Conversely there is probably not a game we could not lose if we continue making the fatal mistakes we made in our first three games. Colgate showed they are better than people gave them credit for narrowly losing to #9 Richmond and Cal Poly took a good UNI team to OT on the road.

Three toughest games looked to be NAU, PSU and Weber State and they are all home games. We also have two byes (one this week) to work on things and get players healthy. Cal Poly put up 543 yards and 35 points up against UNI on the road so it looks like the offense is starting to find their form. Still need to clean some things up, but at least we are headed in the right direction. We started the year with our 3rd OC in 3 years (One left for New Mexico and one went to Georgia Southern) and a new QB. Both had shaking starts, but looked better yesterday. Jenkins threw for 238 yards and 4 TDs and rushed for 112 yards and a TD. I think both will continue to get better as the season goes on.

Cal Poly may not win the Big Sky, but anyone thinking they are an easy out because of their 0-3 start will be in for a much tougher game than they expect.
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Where does the Cats fit in your toughest games scenario? Their game against a really veteran, tough SDSU was an eye opener.


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I think Rocky outrecruited both Montana flagship schools this year. A Petrino. A Montana kid. I know, NAIA and all, but look at his line(s). MSU had an unacceptable number of penalties called on their offensive line yesterday. Where are the Graggs? Weber, UND, and probably UNC dominate because of all their baby buffalo on both sides of the line. Great skill players can't do much without the baby buffaloes. Watch what NDSU did to the smoke and mirrors in Cheney yesterday. It's embarrassing to watch this conference in their nonconference schedule almost as much as knowing what is going to happen when the playoffs happen. Has there been a Big Sky win against a team other than another Big Sky team in the last four years? (Nonscholarship teams in the playoffs ought not count as a victory).

Too many years of poor officiating and the obvious lack of fundamentals as a result of terrible officials has rendered this conference null and void. Kind of like what has happened to BYU when the rest of the country saw video proof they don't play football, just garbage. Hope the best football teams actually make the playoffs this year.
 
Weber ND and PSU look most complete to start.
CP with two FBS losses dug a deep hole for themselves. They play such a physical style a few injuries will probably cost them a game or two towards the end of the season. They will have to go three out of four against NAU SUU WEB and PRST.
NAU now has to win 7 out of 9 games, they are always good, I just don't see them getting 7 FCS wins this year.
SUU is a good position...win at least 6 of the last 9. Problem is strength of schedule. UNI CP WEB EWU ND and NAU if they make the playoffs they will have earned it.
UM to this point gives up 500 yrds per game (300 passing 200 running) against Valpo and UW.
At this point the defense would be better off rushing 3, QB spy with Curran since he can't catch consistently, maybe he can tackle, cover two or three deep with 7 maybe force more FG attempts. The offense has moved H WR in for blocking, JLM against FCS defenses will succeed, Phillips is a good fit for this offense, question is: can they move the chains more consistently than they have to this point?
UM has favorable schedule remaining with tough teams at home EWU ND and NAU. Two tough road games PRST and WEB. After this week should have two FCS wins and need to finish with at least 5 out 8 to be in playoff contention and 6+ out 8 to contend for BS title.
 
Diesel said:
Weber ND and PSU look most complete to start.
CP with two FBS losses dug a deep hole for themselves. They play such a physical style a few injuries will probably cost them a game or two towards the end of the season. They will have to go three out of four against NAU SUU WEB and PRST.
NAU now has to win 7 out of 9 games, they are always good, I just don't see them getting 7 FCS wins this year.
SUU is a good position...win at least 6 of the last 9. Problem is strength of schedule. UNI CP WEB EWU ND and NAU if they make the playoffs they will have earned it.
UM to this point gives up 500 yrds per game (300 passing 200 running) against Valpo and UW.
At this point the defense would be better off rushing 3, QB spy with Curran since he can't catch consistently, maybe he can tackle, cover two or three deep with 7 maybe force more FG attempts. The offense has moved H WR in for blocking, JLM against FCS defenses will succeed, Phillips is a good fit for this offense, question is: can they move the chains more consistently than they have to this point?
UM has favorable schedule remaining with tough teams at home EWU ND and NAU. Two tough road games PRST and WEB. After this week should have two FCS wins and need to finish with at least 5 out 8 to be in playoff contention and 6+ out 8 to contend for BS title.
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Our rush defense is perplexing. For the most part, have defended against HB's well, and kept them in check. Unfortunately, the defense is allowing way too many yards to scrambling QBs. I hope they figure out a way to minimize QBs, yet still keep hbs in check.
 
So much speculation early by the experts here in talkville. Too early to tell anything. That's why we all have fantasy teams.
 
Nothing after two weeks as usual some want to feel bad about themselves most of the teams played up and just got their butt whipped and all of those people that are glass half empty are ready to shoot themselves or wait until the sky falls in
 
My initial reaction is that the conference may be down, but Weber and Portland State competed very well in their playup games - PSU should've beaten Oregon State. UND handled Missouri State but didn't show very well against Utah.

At this point I'm not sure there is a clear favorite - you'd have to still go with UND but Santiago hasn't been able to do anything, he doesn't even have 100 yards combined on 22 rushes, just 3.3 YPC.

I'd say the teams with a chance to win, in rough order, are UND, PSU, Weber, Southern Utah, Montana, EWU, MSU. Anyone beyond that doesn't look very good, yet.

But it's way too early to tell anything. Most Big Sky teams have pretty lopsided OOC schedules - FBS games, NAIA, D2.
 
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