Its just interesting that his sticking around warranted an "I'm baaaack" post on social media.

Apparently Ylan Esso Essis is now back in the fold. Or never left the fold to begin with?

Looks like MSU is on back to back weekends.

I think because this is reality-based!

At our last Zoom, Plough was speculating that would be televised. that would have been pretty cool since its the first-year student night and we'd have a very big crowd for TV.

I guess I meant Bronson who was DC

how about agreeing to scrimmage us in the Spring, giving Foster/Arp a chance to figure out a plan to completely stop them!

I don’t follow WBB very closely. Not sure how they have stacked up with MWC teams in the past.

if you are anxious for us to move up to the MWC in football, you want to be a BIG men's and women's basketball fan starting this season. their success will be a litmus test for our readiness to move football up. personally, i think we have a ways to go before we are in the top half of the MWC men's basketball standings. we were a consistent top level team at in the BWC with an arena that was one of the top 4-5 in the conference; i think we'll be toward the bottom of the MWC, with one of the worst arenas.

looks like he can get to the hoop, which hasn’t been a strong point for us.

Sounds like a good addition; we need a solid defender

I was thinking more along the lines of NIL, which i had heard that they were at the top of the conference along with UCSD and UCSB. How that translates to the new revenue sharing model, i'm not sure.

that’s the minimum. The average head coach salary is something like $1,3M, with UNLV’s Dan Mullen topping the list at $3.5M.

https://nevadasportsnet.com/news/reporters/how-much-every-head-football-coach-in-the-mountain-west-and-pac-12-will-make-in-2026

I would think Sac offered more money, and I believe UCI’s revenue stream is larger than ours. In some ways, it feels like they expected big paydays and/or jump up in competition……and had to settle for less when that didn’t materialize.

you are right. It seems like the terms NIL and revenue sharing get interchanged quite a bit.

During the last alumni Zoom, someone asked about the future move to the Mountain West. Plough is cautious -> doesn't want to jump ahead if we don't have the resources to compete long-term. There was money issues that I hadn't fully appreciated. Beside the $5M entry fee (FCS->FBS), the MWC required a minimum staff payroll of $3.5M (about $2.5M more than our current), and NIL commitment of something like $2.5M ($2M or so more than our current). So, we either have to boast revenue SIGNIFICANTLY, or get a big financial commitment from central campus.

let's hope there is some news coming soon. I was looking at the portal tracker google document, and some schools who lost a bunch (SJSU, UTEP) seem to be grabbing anybody they can. Unless I've missed the emergence of William&Mary, John Logan and Stetson as basketball breeding grounds.

I sure wish we’d see some news of signees for us. I know they don’t like to announce anyone until compliance gives the full a-ok, but it’s starting to get late even by last seasons standards.

I thought Plough said he ran a 10.5 100m this last track season during our zoom.

boy, i have no idea what the college football landscape will look like in the next 5 years. I think our success in the Mountain West in other sports the next couple of seasons will either accelerate or decelerate the effort for football.