MidTennMtneer said:

Legit question as I never played football. Do the weight room facilities have anything to do with that? Blatnick seems to be the kind of guy that knows what he is doing. Do we just not have all the guys need yet? I know CDM put in the nutrition station but it still isn't the same as a full blown nutrition system (ie meals, before workout, after, proper snacks, etc). The SAPC should help in all that, right? Better weight room, recovery pools, etc.

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When it comes to S&C facilities 100% make a difference. Recovery pools and the proper nutrition plans are extremely important as well. That should improve with the new facility but that’s something that will unfortunately take some time. You can’t change that stuff overnight because you’ll kill the guys and actually cause more injuries.

Actually pretty genius. UNLV/AF get $22m, then others $10.3m. This doesn't include what will be settled with the P12 poaching lawsuit so the MWC can use that to assist in buyouts for whoever they grab and then go to market for a media deal. They won't get the $7m they had before but they'll get more than us for sure. We are at $800k, MAC $750k, SBC $1m.

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We'll never catch up

That's as much of an indictment on the failure of our administration as you can possibly find.

Why? 1) Because no one pays attention to that conference and the teams in that conference anywhere else in the world more than on that board. 2) We used to be viewed favorably and well respected in this community.

I had not visited the Sun Belt board ever since we left over ten years ago. So I visited that message board today and there was a poll in one thread

sWiley said:

Everyone has. Wait until you see Tarleton State grow over the next 10 years. We all joked about "what the hell is a Tarleton?" when it was rumored they would join CUSA....

Just wait

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Shoot. Look at UCF. They didn't even start football until 1979 and had no on campus stadium until 2007. Their first 1-A (FBS) season was 1996. Ours, 1999. And now they are a P4.

DisgruntledAlum said:

They passed us by pretty quick.

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Everyone has. Wait until you see Tarleton State grow over the next 10 years. We all joked about "what the hell is a Tarleton?" when it was rumored they would join CUSA....

Just wait

DisgruntledAlum said:

They passed us by pretty quick.

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At the moment, I can't think of any that moved up after we did, that haven't. I despise our leadership.

MidTennMtneer said:

Legit question as I never played football. Do the weight room facilities have anything to do with that? Blatnick seems to be the kind of guy that knows what he is doing. Do we just not have all the guys need yet? I know CDM put in the nutrition station but it still isn't the same as a full blown nutrition system (ie meals, before workout, after, proper snacks, etc). The SAPC should help in all that, right? Better weight room, recovery pools, etc.

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I think it's a whole S&C culture thing that will need time (I know, no one wants to hear it).

It's one of those things where you need the facilities, nutrition program, S&C program, the right players with the right mindset and leadership group. You got to flip the roster, get these guys in here, and build them up and establish the year over year culture of vets who can pass down the culture to the newcomers.

MT01 said:

I've made the decision to spare myself of the agony of sitting through this game. It would only be for one half anyway, but I can't stand the thought of witnessing getting skull drug by another one of our "rivals".

I'll be doing other things Saturday night. Good luck to any of you who elect to suffer through this.

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I just hope no one gets skull drug before or after the game.

Legit question as I never played football. Do the weight room facilities have anything to do with that? Blatnick seems to be the kind of guy that knows what he is doing. Do we just not have all the guys need yet? I know CDM put in the nutrition station but it still isn't the same as a full blown nutrition system (ie meals, before workout, after, proper snacks, etc). The SAPC should help in all that, right? Better weight room, recovery pools, etc.

mtfblue said:

They don't have the frame and body's for FBS

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Didn't we also lose 2-3 linemen against Tech in game 1? I'm also thinking our conditioning has been subpar not only this year, but for multiple years now.

MTBig Blue said:

It's football and there will always be injuries but why does it seem like every single year, half of our starters are injured?

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They don't have the frame and body's for FBS

It's football and there will always be injuries but why does it seem like every single year, half of our starters are injured?

MT01 said:

I’m not so sure about that. Maybe this level was too much for him. He’s only completing 43% of his passes and gone over 100 yards passing once in three games. Sounds like they may have actually overpaid him.

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They were using that as leverage to get some money from UNLV. He will be back at Holy Cross or another NE fcs program.

MidTennMtneer said:

But thanks to the lawsuit the TN courts went through, it killed any NCAA restrictions. So now collectives have members (some businesses and some individual) and make direct payments to the players. Oklahoma State's collective spent almost $3m last year. Ohio State nearly $20m. The average I've seen for a 5-star player is over $100k/year with 2-star at around $12k. Some high end transfers are getting nearly $1m.

There's a thread here somewhere about our MBB team all being paid a few thousand a month last year.

Technically the collectives aren't part of the schools. But they work hand in had. "Hey Joe, this is coach. I've got a QB I want in the portal. I need $500k to get him." "No problem coach. Send him my way."

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There's no way we can compete with this. Not just us, there's probably 80 schools in the same boat more or less.

We (most of the G5) simply don't have the deep pockets needed to compete. I don't blame anyone - the teams that are primed to do well here are 100 year old football programs, with generational fan bases and longstanding commercial ties. We just didn't have the time to build that up.

We might not ever have been able to do that - the fact is we're kind of an everyman college - we train teachers and nurses and small business folks (and we're good at it too). We don't have a Haslam, or a Yellawood, or a group of Oil-men.

The G5 needs someone with some foresight and some cojones to get us out of this losing arms race and come up with a framework that works for us. Unfortunately, I think most of the G5 leadership is just simply focused on not rocking the boat, and keeping the paycheck and benefits coming rather than coming up with anything truly transformative.

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They passed us by pretty quick.

I've made the decision to spare myself of the agony of sitting through this game. It would only be for one half anyway, but I can't stand the thought of witnessing getting skull drug by another one of our "rivals".

I'll be doing other things Saturday night. Good luck to any of you who elect to suffer through this.

MidTennMtneer said:

Dream scenario....they leave and we go to SBC. Hey, one can dream.

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Thanks to Smith, McPhee, etc. we're probably 10th on any other league's list at this point.

They didn't understand the importance of building facilities. They haven't and still don't understand the importance of branding.

Facilities, name change, etc. all should have been done in the last two decades. And one thing to keep in mind Sun Belt isn't going to be looking for markets. They would be looking for competitors. Which one would you take? Us or Western? Our "leadership" has screwed this up so bad none of them should have a job with this Univ right now.