JabbaNoBargain

You’re spot on. The recency of playing these clowns and living in PDX makes it flair up a bit…but I could see my interest fading fast. No matter how clever the teams they add are, watching UTSA play CSU in a conference tilt is still a yawn fest.

Hilarious. Some schools are definitely more in the victim spectrum, definitely not OBD. What seems to be becoming clear though, transfers that still have 2-3 years left are ideal, but you don’t say no to a one year guy if they’re really good and a fit.

In an average year, we will play 3-4 ranked teams in conference, 1 ranked team in the conference championship, and 3-4 ranked teams in a full playoff run. That’s up to 9 ranked teams, don’t make OOC harder than it needs to be. To me, making the playoff is what is most interesting. IMO interesting OOC only becomes interesting if you’re expecting to go 6-6. When OBD will ideally be playing 16-17 games in a great year, and at least 13 games in a good year, I personally couldn’t care less who we play in the 3 OOC games. This is something OBD can control, so use these opportunities to gel wisely..bring on Tiddlywink U to Autzen. If the river rats fall into that model, fine. If not, bubye.

Right. The MWC is arguably the #5 conference currently. So it makes sense that rebranding it the PAC, adding the piggies and a couple random teams would keep it at #5. $100m+ spent and introducing national travel will result in exactly the same thing as just joining the existing MWC. I’m sure the 3 or 4 teams that will be left out in the cold will appreciate the revenge bully tour. Good job?

Oh no! They just conned Wake Forest into playing in potato salad stadium. One more home game and my margin for fleeting empathy is already gone…their loss 😝

If they go 2-10, no one else wants to join their “reimagined” PAC, and have to play 8+ road games in 2025 due to burning so many bridges…I might feel a fleeting moment of empathy.

I mean, for me it begins and ends with UW '94, amazing finish that reverberated way beyond the game itself. Cliche right? Some random moments that stuck with me: At the individual level, UCLA in '98 is one that stands out. Reuben Droughns playing with a broken leg was an all-time epic effort for me, even though we ended up losing in OT. Gregg Trapp sending UCLA to OT from behind the backboard in 1984. 3OT win over USC in 1999 stands out as well

While what you said is accurate as far as what needs to be accomplished to provide a conceivable path to the playoff, Scott Barnes has in recent weeks regularly referred to themselves as P5...and they are not striving to be 5th best. Let's also not distort previous uses of the phrase "moral high ground". No one backstabbed the PAC IMO, management ran it into the ground and teams left when the grant of rights expired. The PIG2 have routinely played the victim card and claimed they were betrayed and that only they were "loyal" (AKA had no options). These same high-minded, loyal PIG2 have now intentionally, by choice, been the architects of the destruction of the MWC. I understand they're doing what they need to do, but to paint a picture they're anything but hypocrites is false IMO. Own it piggies.

Let me see if I have this right. Cozy up to MWC when in desperate need of a schedule Use pilfered funds for hostile takeover of your new scheduling buddy, possibly destroying a conference in the process due to your actions ”Reimagine” the MWC as the new PAC with the 2 historically worst programs from the “real” PAC showing the way Claim P5 status This is moral high ground? To me, the only conceivable way this becomes “P5”, which in reality means nothing, is if they continue to completely contradict themselves and add the top 2-3 programs from every G6 program across the country. The second they do that they lose their niche of becoming the “premiere west coast conference”…and it would still be debatable if that is a power conference. That’s a whole lot of bullying to end up in the same spot as joining the MWC.

All a fun mid-September exercise, but everyone knows they’ll Coug it up and go 7-5 if they’re lucky.

Would be an interesting test of the system. Will they crack the top-11 going undefeated and receive one of the 7 at-large bids? Would be close, but stretches my imagination to see them getting the nod over a 10-2 team from ANY of the P4. Could have had a real shot if they'd just joined the MWC, hope they enjoy the bean-counter victory.

Case in point to my other comments that somehow they're doing us a huge favor by playing us. Such rage! 🤣

TCU at 5-7 last year has to be a contender, and without a massive coaching change no less.

Yes indeed. This gets deliciously compounded by the belief (of what feels like the majority of Beavis fans) that they were somehow doing us a favor by agreeing to play us. Not sure how that works in their brains. The reality is they should do everything in their power to play us every year. But alas, us playing ANY G6 a home/home is just not sustainable for a good playoff formula. G6 road games should flat out not be a thing.

OBD offense looked like a high-octane OBD offense against a defensively oriented rival on the road. It wasn’t an accident they announced the PIG2 adding members this week. They thought this was going to be a showcase to add more members and it blew up in their face a bit. They were pouring their entire being into that first half. This is the same team that struggled to score and pass the ball against IDAHO at home two weeks ago. I’m guessing we’d beat Idaho by 50+ if we played next week. OSU and BSU are probably about equal and it was like a different universe. We’re back and there are currently only 2 ranked teams on the schedule. So feeling pretty good about our chances.

Post this question again at about 4:30 tomorrow 😆

Height of delusion. Combing the MWC and the Big Sky with a couple Dakotas = super conference? As someone that lived in Moscow, ID for 10 years, I would be extremely disappointed if Idaho takes the bait and goes back to FBS. They, along with the other Big Sky powers are in a perfect spot and enjoying themselves, don’t mess it up with anything resembling this foolishness.

Once again, I could nearly respect them if they actually embraced the hypocrisy instead of trying to spin that what they just did is somehow different than what they claim was done to them. Next step to complete the lame journey would be to add some more G6 schools that aren’t regionally oriented to increase their travel footprint. Side note, if Scott Barnes can arbitrarily use the term “P5” with every breath, then everyone else should feel free to arbitrarily use the term “G6”. Get used to it piggies 😆

For me, it begins and ends with OBD looking like OBD on offense, full stop.

What I was getting at earlier…AQ status does not exist, for anyone, because of which conference they are in. You just have to win a conference that will result in you being highly ranked. From ESPN: The five highest-ranked conference champions and the next seven highest-ranked teams will earn a spot in the 12-team bracket. There is no limit to how many teams from one conference can qualify. The rules also don't guarantee spots for certain conferences. The champions of the Big 12, SEC, ACC and Big Ten will almost certainly routinely qualify, though, along with the highest-ranked champion from the Mountain West, American Athletic Conference, Sun Belt, Mid-American Conference or Conference USA. There is no minimum ranking requirement for the five highest-ranked conference champions. There could be a conference champion ranked No. 23, for example, that's the fifth highest-ranked league winner and earns a spot in the playoff -- at the expense of the committee's No. 12 team.

No no no…it’s very different than joining the WAC, err MWC. I still don’t understand the benefit to teams leaving the WAC, err MWC.

Believe it when I see it. The MWC already has those markets, what’s the point of dancing around instead of just adding a couple teams from Texas to the MWC? Ross also seems to indicate he thinks they will get back their “automatic bid” for the football playoff. That’s not a thing. Lol

I think LBs are the key to run D and we just got trampled for 6.7 per carry. Awesome job covering space, but it’s a miracle to win giving up that average.

Yada yada not much to add to the overwhelming concern over the O-line. I think the D will be very good if it gets some support from the O. We had that game seemingly in hand until the offense fumbled twice in a row. Where do I find hope? Zero sacks in second half - did we improve? Shuffle the right guys to work well with a lefty? Opponents Good? - Those might be two really good playoff caliber teams (I fully understand Idaho is FCS) we opened with while we gel. BSU has a Heisman candidate at HB, had zero turnovers, and does not fear us at all. Both teams were incredibly sound and played nearly mistake free football. Maybe we just survived a baptism by fire? Special Teams - More action than last few seasons in one game. Won with a FG kicker! Gloom? O-line - sacks out of control for first 1.5 games Linebacker - seem to be lacking NIL Darkside - Did we bring in a collection of mercenaries that won’t gel or care if they gel? We do feel a lot like UW last year. I keep saying “we’ll know after this week” and I’m saying it again. I don’t think Beavis is as good as either team we just played, but it’s on the road, they’ll be fired up beyond belief, and they have no reason to not be confident. If we win that game I’ll continue to reassess.

I sense…my Saturdays freeing up.