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We need your help * Branding the NEW Five Conference Poll

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Branding the new Five Conference Top 25 Poll
We need your assistance!

This is a work in progress (the poll). Before we launch a new top 25 poll in August we are asking for your assistance. We are asking members of the boards from the Sun Belt, MAC, Mid American, Mountain West and Conference USA teams to assist us with the development of this new Poll. Recently we had a meeting with several media outlets in an attempt to have them pick up the poll for national exposure. The meeting was very fruitful and we came away with lots of suggestions and recommendations. The number one comment that surfaced was the name of the poll. Our goal is to brand the poll to achieve positive national attention and exposure. We met with several groups from, school administrators, sports information professionals and marketing executives for recommendations.

After digesting the input from those meetings and a few other individuals, we humbly appeal to the loyal and dedicated fans that post on the boards for help. The cumulative collection of knowledge and wisdom that is shared from the five conferences has some of the most knowledgeable fans in the country and I hope everyone will take a moment to send us your opinion! After many hours of deliberation from board representatives, School administrators and a few media sources, we narrowed the selections down to five. There was one particular name that emerged as the leader from this list. I have posted a picture of one selection (graphics can be designed for the winner). Please take one moment to give us your choice and the one you feel will best represent the five conferences. PM, your selection to us with any feedback or recommendations.
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Respectfully
Oldtimer
 
How about the Snob Five. No one here gives a shit! What is dumb is they keep their bottom feeders, who overall are worse programs, with worse records and less bowl games than most of us "Little" programs. Vanderbilt, Miss St., Duke, Wake Forest, Northwestern, Kansas, Even K State ( who had the worst record of any program pre Snyder, and even proved their mediocre after he retires to the point he had to come back.)
But apparently the rest of us just suck, even though teams in these top 5 conferences get beat each year by MAC, MWC and even Sun Belt programs...
 
How about SPSL?



Semi-Pro Segregationist League... since it's clear that this is all about keeping any potential upstarts from getting a piece of the pie if they happen to be good. There'll be a separate water fountain for these programs, they ride in their own part of the bus.

Oh, and the Semi-Pro because it's clear you have to pay the best recruits under the table to get them to your school. There's just no legal employment contract involved, hence the "Semi."

Maybe you should let BYU in after all.
 
Asmodeanreborn said:
How about SPSL?



Semi-Pro Segregationist League... since it's clear that this is all about keeping any potential upstarts from getting a piece of the pie if they happen to be good. There'll be a separate water fountain for these programs, they ride in their own part of the bus.

Oh, and the Semi-Pro because it's clear you have to pay the best recruits under the table to get them to your school. There's just no legal employment contract involved, hence the "Semi."

Maybe you should let BYU in after all.
He's talking about the MWC, AAC, MAC, C-USA, and Sunbelt conferences...
 
fromolwyoming said:
Asmodeanreborn said:
How about SPSL?



Semi-Pro Segregationist League... since it's clear that this is all about keeping any potential upstarts from getting a piece of the pie if they happen to be good. There'll be a separate water fountain for these programs, they ride in their own part of the bus.

Oh, and the Semi-Pro because it's clear you have to pay the best recruits under the table to get them to your school. There's just no legal employment contract involved, hence the "Semi."

Maybe you should let BYU in after all.
He's talking about the MWC, AAC, MAC, C-USA, and Sunbelt conferences...

Ah, dammit. For some reason I thought the OTHER conferences were dumb enough to come here hoping for help naming their new idiocy. I'm just annoyed with this whole thing, as nothing good will come out of it.

Maybe our group could be called Left Behind?
 
Same sentiment here

Who cares what they get "branded"? Greedy bastards.

I'm hoping that CSewe falls flat on their face on what appears to be a move to get into one of these conferences...possibly the Big 12. They could screw up the MWC in a big way....
 
Hayduke said:
Same sentiment here

Who cares what they get "branded"? Greedy bastards.

I'm hoping that CSewe falls flat on their face on what appears to be a move to get into one of these conferences...possibly the Big 12. They could screw up the MWC in a big way....
This kind of post only happens when you only read the thread title, jump to conclusions, and don't read any other posts in the thread explaining what it is about.
 
Hayduke said:
Same sentiment here

Who cares what they get "branded"? Greedy bastards.

I'm hoping that CSewe falls flat on their face on what appears to be a move to get into one of these conferences...possibly the Big 12. They could screw up the MWC in a big way....

The MWC is already screwed.

You hope CSU falls flat on their face for trying to go to a big conference while we sit here doing nothing?
TCU and Utah made it to big boy leagues, and now CSU is trying to do the same. Don't blame them. I respect it actually. Now why don't we try and do that?
 
BeaverPoke said:
Hayduke said:
Same sentiment here

Who cares what they get "branded"? Greedy bastards.

I'm hoping that CSewe falls flat on their face on what appears to be a move to get into one of these conferences...possibly the Big 12. They could screw up the MWC in a big way....

The MWC is already screwed.

You hope CSU falls flat on their face for trying to go to a big conference while we sit here doing nothing?
TCU and Utah made it to big boy leagues, and now CSU is trying to do the same. Don't blame them. I respect it actually. Now why don't we try and do that?

Because the Good Ole Boy Club won't allow it plus we have a complete moron running the athletic department. I've seen monkeys at the OKC Zoo that could much better than him!!!!
 
Wyokie said:
BeaverPoke said:
Hayduke said:
Same sentiment here

Who cares what they get "branded"? Greedy bastards.

I'm hoping that CSewe falls flat on their face on what appears to be a move to get into one of these conferences...possibly the Big 12. They could screw up the MWC in a big way....

The MWC is already screwed.

You hope CSU falls flat on their face for trying to go to a big conference while we sit here doing nothing?
TCU and Utah made it to big boy leagues, and now CSU is trying to do the same. Don't blame them. I respect it actually. Now why don't we try and do that?

Because the Good Ole Boy Club won't allow it plus we have a complete moron running the athletic department. I've seen monkeys at the OKC Zoo that could much better than him!!!!
Frankly we have nothing to offer a power 5 conference, we wouldn't be invited if we were top 25 in every sport, the fact that we have such a small TV base to offer. Also nobody would want to add us to the conference due to difficulty traveling to Laramie.
 
YankPoke said:
Wyokie said:
BeaverPoke said:
Hayduke said:
Same sentiment here

Who cares what they get "branded"? Greedy bastards.

I'm hoping that CSewe falls flat on their face on what appears to be a move to get into one of these conferences...possibly the Big 12. They could screw up the MWC in a big way....

The MWC is already screwed.

You hope CSU falls flat on their face for trying to go to a big conference while we sit here doing nothing?
TCU and Utah made it to big boy leagues, and now CSU is trying to do the same. Don't blame them. I respect it actually. Now why don't we try and do that?

Because the Good Ole Boy Club won't allow it plus we have a complete moron running the athletic department. I've seen monkeys at the OKC Zoo that could much better than him!!!!
Frankly we have nothing to offer a power 5 conference, we wouldn't be invited if we were top 25 in every sport, the fact that we have such a small TV base to offer. Also nobody would want to add us to the conference due to difficulty traveling to Laramie.

What if Wyoming was like Boise State and ESPN loved us? Hate to say this but besides $$$, pleasing ESPN helps. Kiss the right people's asses and you can get a lot of things done.
 
No doubt there Wyokie, but Boise has a large city going for it and easier travel, it wouldn't be impossible for us to get an invite to a power 5, but it would be much harder for us than CSU, Boise, etc.
 
YankPoke said:
No doubt there Wyokie, but Boise has a large city going for it and easier travel, it wouldn't be impossible for us to get an invite to a power 5, but it would be much harder for us than CSU, Boise, etc.

True on travel and stuff...but still...Please ESPN and the world is your oyster. That's how guys like Manziel wins the Heisman. Make ESPN happy and they can give you anything.....until the NFL Draft then you're on your own.

It's not govts. you need to control...it's the corporations.
 
Wyokie said:
True on travel and stuff...but still...Please ESPN and the world is your oyster. That's how guys like Manziel wins the Heisman. Make ESPN happy and they can give you anything.....until the NFL Draft then you're on your own.

It's not govts. you need to control...it's the corporations.
True....but the interest has to be reciprocated. As of this moment, ESPN has no reason to treat Wyoming with any special preference. That goes for many schools to be honest. There are times I wonder if they regret their deal with Texas. Not that many people give a shit about the Horns.
 
J-Rod said:
Wyokie said:
True on travel and stuff...but still...Please ESPN and the world is your oyster. That's how guys like Manziel wins the Heisman. Make ESPN happy and they can give you anything.....until the NFL Draft then you're on your own.

It's not govts. you need to control...it's the corporations.
True....but the interest has to be reciprocated. As of this moment, ESPN has no reason to treat Wyoming with any special preference. That goes for many schools to be honest. There are times I wonder if they regret their deal with Texas. Not that many people give a shit about the Horns.


Even if Wyo wins under Bohl, ESPN won't care.
But here's something that will upset people...if we had DC and Brett Smith or Jason Thompson or Cade Smith and had a QB who was tearing it up and our team was fun to watch, ESPN would care.

If we become a great team because of a hard nosed defense, no one but us and opposing OCs will want to watch us.
Defensive shutouts, 3 and outs and punts don't get beer drinking channel surfers on saturday nights excited.
Brett Smiths, Johnny Footballs, Marcus Mariotas, Sean Mannions, Kellen Moores, Tim Tebows, Cam Newtons, etc. get people excited.

We don't have fan support, willingness to spend money, the TV market, or the drive to become a BCS team.
Utah didn't have it all either, but they had smarts. They rode the excitement of 2 BCS Bowl wins. TWO!
In the last decade there have been like 10 to 15 teams in the country to win multiple BCS Bowls. They convinced their fans they were a dynasty. And they were. They beat everyone, everywhere, all the time.
Then they get into the Pac12, and can go 0-12 every season and still make twice as much money as they did going undefeated in the MWC.

Wyoming won't ever go undefeated, and even if we did, our average attendance won't even hit 25K.
 
espn will never love us, but they will use us. They LOVE the power 5 conferences and they will use us to fill in the time slots that the power 5 conferences don't want. For that they will give us what would be a good payday for us but a pittance for the power 5. espn is totally in bed with the power 5.
 
WYCowboy said:
espn will never love us, but they will use us. They LOVE the power 5 conferences and they will use us to fill in the time slots that the power 5 conferences don't want. For that they will give us what would be a good payday for us but a pittance for the power 5. espn is totally in bed with the power 5.

Of course they are, if I ran ESPN, I would be too. It's a business, they don't make big money airing Wyoming and Air Force games, but throw on an sec or big ten game...$$$
 
I will never help give creedence to the 2nd class citizen image that the powers that be are trying to force on us. We play at the same level as the so-called "Power 5" conferences, and I will NOT show any respect to a poll that tries to say we don't.
 
WYO1016 said:
I will never help give creedence to the 2nd class citizen image that the powers that be are trying to force on us. We play at the same level as the so-called "Power 5" conferences, and I will NOT show any respect to a poll that tries to say we don't.

+1 we'll use the normal top 25 poll thank you very much.
 
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