J-Rod said:
WAY too much SJSU love......one good year in an extremely watered-down conference does not make one a contender, or a team with that many all-conference players.
I bought my SportingNews magazine yesterday.....they noted that no team in the MWC is in for a rude awakening quite like the Spartans are.....they have them missing a bowl game altogether. I have to agree. Both newcomers to the conference will be downward trending this fall.
Then again, it is Phil Steele......the man who had UCF is in a BCS bowl game last summer.....lol
I have to disagree with you. San Jose State is a legitimate threat to challenge for the conference crown this season. The WAC may have been a weak conference last season, but SJSU marched right through that conference without really much of a challenge from any team, save for Utah State. Their only other loss came to eventual Rose Bowl champion Stanford, and they gave them everything they could handle before losing 20-17. Also, don't forget that they played two MWC teams last season, handling CSU easily and beating SDSU (the MWC co-champion) in San Diego. David Fales and Noel Grigsby are going to be a nearly unstoppable combination.
It's kind of funny how many thought we would be so much more competitive in a conference without the big time spenders like TCU, BYU, and Utah. Instead, the WAC teams have come in and dominated the league and kept the lower tier MWC charter schools in the lower half of the league. I mean, the only MWC charter school left to have any sort of success recently has been SDSU. From an objective view point, I see 5 of the top 6 teams in the MWC next season being relatively new WAC teams (Fresno St, SJSU, Boise St, Utah St, Nevada) with the only charter school making my top 6 being SDSU. That reality pisses me off a little bit, but it is what it is.