not just California. Attendance nationally in 2019 was the lowest since 1996. Not sure how they measure that with all the addition of teams, stadium expansions, etc

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-must-innovate-as-fbs-attendance-dips-for-sixth-straight-year-to-lowest-since-1996/


Pac12 is hurting

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/11/06/attendance-issues

I’m hoping we come out in a fast paced RPO scheme to get Hunter rolling, leading to big holes for Gilliam. Sounds like they are a high risk defense so try to exploit that with quick hitters into the open spaces. And NO big plays for their offense. Make their QB beat us by having to be consistent (not a strength ) and not a big run after catch of scramble

Here is the link to MWC salaries. That’s head coaches. Coordinators and assistants make way more than ours.

https://nevadasportsnet.com/news/reporters/heres-how-much-every-mountain-west-football-coach-will-make-in-2021

I know that Hawkins is in the lower half of the Big Sky coaches.

MWC ranges from $600k to $1.6M. I believe Dan is around $260k.

probably so; looks like they were drafted about 4 years apart (Les in 86, Strong in 90).

If Boise and/or San Diego were to bolt, that would make the MWC much less attractive. I just don’t see how going to 14 teams is a great idea for the Big12. I guess Boise is a bit of a name, and there’s some benefit to adding a southern team.

He is the son of former NBA player Derek Strong. He played 450 games over a 10-year span with a number of teams. He was also a stock car racer. Not a typical post-basketball career transition.

I think the attendance requirement is loose. SJSU currently has a max of something like 15k and they, and many others, aren’t close to the 20k requirement on average attendance . Even Reno was only at 16k in 2019

https://nevadasportsnet.com/news/reporters/mountain-west-football-posts-its-lowest-attendance-ever-heres-why

It’s not attendance, it’s the slice of the TV money. Which is why I don’t think the MWC expands- more forks eating out of the same pie. Since the MWC remained intact, for know, after the Big 12 moves, I expect they are standing pat for the time being.

the top less photo session has a history of itself and was a bit part of this investigation.

Here is a detailed story. Came from investigation into sexual misconduct with Washington, and emails were sent to Bruce Allen who was club president at the time

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/report-jon-gruden-repeatedly-used-homophobic-misogynist-language-in-email-exchanges-involving-bruce-allen-003823476.html

If there was a bright side, he was much better when he came back into the game. He got into that RPO mode, and looked decisive and accurate. Hope it carries over

sounds like there were many more covering different subjects. Are they checking player emails? Some might not be the most enlightened.

nice to see Hawkins honored. He was a key in changing the direction of the program. He wasn’t at football game the next night; glad he was able to attend the induction

I don’t know how much the committee looks at bad losses and good wins; I figure they are taking the top four BSC teams to the 24 team bracket. Sac is undefeated and has Montana coming up. Besides us and NAU (home),the rest of their schedule is weak. Game with us is big. The others ahead (MSU, EWU, Montana) have tougher schedules.

In 2019, first year with 24 teams, Big Sky had 4 teams in with byes. All were 9-3. The Montana’s had 2 conference losses. So I don’t think running the table is a must. I’d be thrilled with a 4-1 record.

Look at the OOC games for the MWC. USC and Penn St ain’t coming to their stadiums! Maybe Hawaii, but nobody else (Cal did play at Reno)

We’d join the MWC and our first home game would be Southern Utah! New attendance record!!

That final three game stretch is looking pretty daunting (not to overlook the next two). 2 out of three might be required.

Also, the ‘we draw 100000 to Picnic Day’ argument: if we charged $40 to attend 6 picnic days over 3 months, how many would we draw?

Big 12 just added 4 teams to get to 12, none from the MWC. There are three openings in the AAC but nobody is leaving MWC for that. If the MWC was searching, it was to potentially fill in for departing teams, NOT to add to their current roster. Just a non-starter.