OrediggerPoke
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Wyoming no longer playing Nevada next year. Instead, we travel to Fargo. Tough place to play in NDSU’s first season.
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Updated Football Schedule
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Based on the previous couple years, we will be lucky to go 2-4.
I don’t see anything changing. Any fan expecting much out of the football team next year is setting themselves up for a very disappointing fall.
Finding another coach willing to donate a large sum of money to NIL really throws a wrench into the system. Burman lit his own cobblers on fire.
LanderPoke
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Great. get to lose is that stupid field house dome thing
PorkerPoke
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To the former OC who gets paid less than Sawful and apparently has not had to learn how to be a HC.
It might even be possible that Polasek was able to accurately evaluate the talent on the team whereas Sawful and staff just recently realized they had a lack of offense with significant QB issues going into year 3.
cowpoke pride
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I don't know man. I see 3-3.
Part of me isn't sure why the MW didn't just go to a 9-game conference schedule, does Air Force need a game against Duquesne? Does Nevada need to travel to Middle Tennessee? I understand contracts were set up for this season that probably stopped it from happening but if we don't see them go to 9 games (assuming membership stays at 10), I'll be very confused
It will more than likely be 9 game next year. Next to impossible to make it happen this year and assume the money lost was not worth it. Air Force loves to beat up on bottom FCS teams to start the season each year.
That would make sense, it'll be interesting to see which games get dropped, I could see UW dropping the North Texas game next year or Idaho State in '28 (Akron might as well be an FCS game anyways). Alot of games will need to be rescheduled since we've got 4 OoC games the all the way to 2030, and 2032 as well. I can see some games being pushed to 2031 where the only OoC game is the sheep.
Also, why on god's green earth are we playing Western Illinois in '29. I get playing an FCS school, but we couldn't find a team that has a .500 conference record since 2017? That school would probably struggle in the damn MIAA, Pitt State would slap em silly
PorkerPoke
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I am having a hard time at the present of anything beyond these games:
No Colo
NIU
If I were a positive Poke fan I would expect wins in all 6 games but I suffer mentally from a Sawful case of Burmanitis which makes positive thoughts a challenge. I refuse to take the brown and gold rah rah pills because the side effects are catastrophically damaging when they quit working as intended.
Took a script from AFA to play a weaker FCS team to draw the fans in. Also teams can rebuilt way differently in the portal era so a poor team now does not translate to a poor team in '29. I doubt they drop North but could see Akron getting the boot. A lot of this depends on the contracts that were signed.
OrediggerPoke
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Air Force is never agreeing to a 9 game conference schedule given their annual CIC games and their desire to play 1 FCS game a year. In fact, pretty sure that was part of the MOU terms provided for Air Force to agree to stay in the MWC.
If Air Force didn’t sign the MOU, Air Force was gone to the AAC for football and UNLV was gone to the PAC and there is no MWC and Wyoming is talking about its CUSA schedule against Sam Houston State.
OrediggerPoke
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It won’t be 9 next year.
OrediggerPoke
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Wyoming isn’t dropping any game. 8 game conference schedules will be the same until 2031 absent Air Force leaving the conference (unlikely given the GOR).
Gotcha, didn't realize we were as hamstrung by AFA as we are. 8 games will make more sense when the MW expands anyways, lord knows they're gonna probably get schools like UCD (football coming finally) and South Dakota State (football only) sooner than laner
Air Force, along with UNLV, are the "flagship institutions" according to the MWC.
I sort of understood Boise State throwing their weight around some, but when Air Force and UNLV are holding all the cards and dictating payments and schedules, you know that is one weak ass conference.
Out of all the things that tell me Wyoming is in trouble, there is none more obvious than the fact that Air Force and UNLV are now considered to be on a higher level than Wyoming...and Wyoming accepts that as the truth.
Agreed, establishing tiers within the conference of what should roughly be "Equal" tier schools is a bad sign. Fingers crossed Wyoming can find some success if we get the problems out (Burman and Sawful) and puts them in that category, since TV markets won't get em in there
OrediggerPoke
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It is the nature of those two programs being the only two programs sought by others when the MWC was imploding. The PAC was courting UNLV and the AAC was courting Air Force. Because of that, UNLV and Air Force each asked for a bigger share of the pie to stay (i.e. to make up any losses that they would incur by virtue of foregoing AAC and PAC opportunities).
Wyoming's alternativeoption was to let the MWC implode/dissolve and wipe away any exit fee payments and join CUSA or drop down to the Big Sky.
Given that range of options, was there a realistic alternative to the structure that was ultimately reached?
And you want to talk about unequal distributions and flagships, Gonzaga is getting a full share distribution from the PAC without a football program. This is despite the fact that all numbers reveal that roughly 85% of conference and media revenues come from football. So, the PAC is paying Gonzaga a share of revenue that would equate to the share of basketball revenue that every other PAC member will receive combined...and without the costs of a football program. Is that better than the UNLV and Air Force structure?!?!? Hell no.
OrediggerPoke
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I agree with this. I see the next MWC football expansion (now that NDSU has opened the door) as a potential UC-Davis, South Dakota State, Montana and Montana State foursome to get the conference to 14 teams and 2-7 team divisions. I don't personally see UNLV sticking in the conference past 2031 however. I don't know what Air Force will do after 2031.
