The 2 most absurd things in MT Athletics & Administration are, 1) the Stock contract, & 2) Whomever it was that was responsible for giving up contractual rights for MT Athletics broadcasting on WMOT 89.5 Unforgivable.

blueraiderJT said:

I was at the game and it was miserable and so sad to what has happened to this program. It may be a long time before I return. I thought about going to the NMSU game but now, they will throttle us. The environment and the vibe was so bad not to mention the team is the worst I have ever seen us be. Andy Mac's worst teams would beat this team like a drum. I stayed til the end but I left wishing Stock was still here. That's how bad it truly was.

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Boots Donnelly's 1985 or 1990 teams would beat this team.

MTLynn said:

Conference affiliation is important, but my main issue is WHY baseball, men's basketball, and football deteriorated, and WHY Blue Raider broadcasts have been pulled from 89.5 FM.

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Either one of two reasons; 1) complete ineptitude by McPhee/Massaro/Steve Smith or a combination within those three or 2) it was all intentional.

Conference affiliation is important, but my main issue is WHY baseball, men's basketball, and football deteriorated, and WHY Blue Raider broadcasts have been pulled from 89.5 FM.

Package WKU and MT to the MWC then. Are we even trying to better our situation, or just sitting on our hands because this administration just wants to ride it out until retirement?

I personally would still beg and plead with AAC to let us in. That would be a clear upgrade.

I drove an hour and 45 minutes each way to see the win!

blueraiderJT said:

I mean we won and it felt like a complete loss. I've never felt that way before.

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Same.

blueraiderJT said:

I mean we won and it felt like a complete loss. I've never felt that way before.

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I had the same feeling. We won but we still look like a mediocre high school team.

I mean we won and it felt like a complete loss. I've never felt that way before.

Hop45 said:

Crowd was probably the smallest I have seen at an MT game as well.

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I would guess 4000 at the most. Including the band, security and concession workers.

Crowd was probably the smallest I have seen at an MT game as well.

I was at the game and it was miserable and so sad to what has happened to this program. It may be a long time before I return. I thought about going to the NMSU game but now, they will throttle us. The environment and the vibe was so bad not to mention the team is the worst I have ever seen us be. Andy Mac's worst teams would beat this team like a drum. I stayed til the end but I left wishing Stock was still here. That's how bad it truly was.

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Seven points from the LOS on offense is ugly!!! All comes down to OL and bad play calling. HC makes some of these run play calls that stop drives because he just can’t seem to be able to accept we are better when we air raid with this OL & the weapons we have in skill position. It’s not a negative on our RBs, but we just can’t run block with any consistency at all. But Coach DM forces the balance he wants instead of going with what has a higher probability of working even if 4th & 2 most teams will choose to run. We aren’t most teams & the sooner they realize that the better!

sWiley said:

KSU getting predictable. Always running to the short side of the field when they are behind the chains

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And we are too predictable hoing to 12 personnel when we want to run the ball. Mix it up!

Anyone make it over to the open practice session yesterday for the meet & greet?

Two really bad teams. Our offense could only generate one td against a very poor defense.
Do we have a special teams coach?
Their qb, Johnson, was very off last night. He had receivers open but could not get the ball to them. Not because of our defense, who still failed miserably.
It's like we are playing our first game of the season. Only positive is we won.
Jax State should be able to name the score.
Pitiful

The past few weeks we have shot ourselves in the foot with bad mistakes. Fumbles. Interceptions. Dropped passes.
Last night those were improved. I'll gladly call out Omari for his improvement holding on to the ball.

But the stupid stupid penalties. We were just against a team that made mistakes too. I couldn't help but laugh at the two in a row on the punt. For the same thing! We have yet to put together a complete game. Yes that is hard with so many players out and a hodgepodge OL, but that is a coach's job. To adapt to the players they have.

There is no reason to go to the MAC. It isn’t a significant upgrade - if at all - and would hurt recruiting.

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Well. First game in almost six years. Good news is the exile is over and we won. The bad news is that’s some of the worst football I have ever witnessed. Seeing this live made me cringe. That’s definitely the worst two offenses I’ve ever witnessed in person on the same field at the same time. Only 284 yards against a team giving up 430? How many penalties? Hell they kept making the same one they had to call a timeout to figure out why. This is all hard to understand because it usually happens when your QB is not good. But that’s not our problem.

Anyway that was the last one. There are no other wins for this team. Our two wins for this year will be an FCS and an FCS move up. This program is basically right on par with a new call up from the FCS ranks. Two and a half decades have been squandered.

It is what is. Mason has an immense amount of work cut out for him. This is not only a rebuild this is basically starting over like it’s 1999. I would actually say it’s more difficult because the 1999 team (at least the 2000 one) would skull drag this team. There are a lot of people we can blame for the state of this program but at this point it doesn’t do any good. Hopefully Mason is the right man for the job because he’s going to need time. Time we don’t really have.

Yeah, stats are what they are, but KSU missed a lot of open WRs last night. Defense was better, but I wouldn't say they dominated KSU. More like KSU bailed us out most of the night. Defense did come up big several times with the goal line stand and the 2 really nice picks.

Those are two really bad teams. The only good thing is we didn’t lose but if we had played anyone with a pulse we would have.

AustinLewis said:

I don't think MAC invites MT / WKU without a GOR. I could be wrong, but I see GOR as part of the invitation to the MAC.

That's one reason I was against it a few years ago (and remain against the move right now). It's just not worth the financial cost.

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My thoughts as well. Took me a while to get there I admit. Yes there are times that hindsight is 20/20 and we would be better off in the MAC...in certain specific aspects such as central geography and stability (which is null and void if anyone leaves as no one thought anyone would ever leave the MAC). But at the time, we made the right decision to stay for the exit fees we took in and the long GOR they wanted.

Sure we signed one with CUSA, but it expires after 2027-28 season. Big whoop. If the MAC had only wanted us to sign till the end of their current deal the year before, I think we'd be there now. But they were asking for one into the next decade. With the trouble the ACC has with theirs, imagine what that would do to a G5 school.

sWiley said:

With that being said, I would never sign a GOR with them and I would not lock into any long-term type of situation. Probably just better off staying in CUSA at this time and angling for something with more regional games. In the end I don't think it really matters what conference we are in, we are screwed no matter what.

Just stay/go where we get the most $$$ and focus on us is the only hope in my opinion.

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I don't think MAC invites MT / WKU without a GOR. I could be wrong, but I see GOR as part of the invitation to the MAC.

That's one reason I was against it a few years ago (and remain against the move right now). It's just not worth the financial cost.