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It Has Been a Great Ride
Just a small announcement to the great community of Bleacher Report, but I am moving on to write about the Mountain West for an opportunity I just received. The downfall is that I will unable to post in both places as I have in the past...
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Listen to My Appearance On The In The Bleachers Podcast
Yesterday I appeared on In the Bleachers Podcast to discuss all things MWC ranging from who will win the league, a big name opponent for Utah in 2010, BCS talk, and expansion. So, if you ever wanted to hear what I sound like go download the podcast...
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Previewing 2009 New Mexico Opponents: Texas Tech Red Raiaders
Texas Tech is going to take a step back from last year, because the lost all-everything wide out Michael Crabtree to the NFL and gun slinger Graham Harrell to the CFL...
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The Revenue Disparity Is Bigger Then You Think
The Orlando Sentinel is running a series on the "Tough times: College sports and the economy." It is a very good read so far, and in their college football blog there is post today ...
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Time for the Annual Expansion Talk...This Time We Mean It
Each year around this time, expansion gets talked about by adding Boise State and others to form a stronger league for BCS consideration. This topic goes back a few years and really became interesting last November when Paul J...
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Making the Rounds: More Media Day Madness
Daily Herald, Darnell Dickenson: Last year BYU was predictable on offense and changes were not made to adjust. Now this year in an attempt to change that with Bronco Mendenhall passing along ...
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The Mountain West Conference Still Has a Lot to Learn
Media days wrapped up for the Mountain West which by all accounts was a success, however something was missing. With media days around the country going on the past week there are some things that the MWC could do better in their coverage...
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Previewing 2009 New Mexico's Opponents: New Mexico State Aggies
New Mexico State had been known for the high power offense, but it was all for naught for them since their defense has been terrible...
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Stat Work: Very Early Lines
Football czar Phil Steele has posted the very early lines for big games in college football. There is one discrepancy from the Golden Nugget, which is where Phil Steele got the info, ...
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Previewing 2009 New Mexico Opponents: Tulsa Golden Hurricane
Tulsa will have to replace 4,059 yard passer David Johnson with junior Jacob Bower. Also, the Golden Hurricane will need to replace their top rusher Tarrion Adams who had 1,523 yards, and also their top receiver Brennan Marion who had over 1,100 yards...
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Preview 2009 New Mexico Opponents: Texas A&M Aggies
Texas A&M used to be a power, but they have steadily declined ever since the firing of R.C. Slocum and their latest conference title in the Big XII in 1998...
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2009 Mountain West Conference Media Days
We're only one week away from 2009 media days! That means football is inching ever so closer to the September 3 kickoff...
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Making The Rounds: Super League Forming?
The Daily Camera: This is the off season so news is slow, and wacky at times. Wacky is where this article that The Daily Camera wrote recently...
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Preview 2009 Colorado State Opponents: Idaho Vandals
Idaho is well to be nice not any good last year they were 2-10 and one of those was against FCS in-state opponent Idaho State...
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Brett Ratliff, Cameron Jensen: Pixelation at Its Finest
Now this is a cool picture and was done by Jeff Holt who was wondering how to fill his 17-by-8.5 blank wall in his basement. The picture was made by using golf tees and then painting them the color to match...
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Preview 2009 Colorado State Opponents: Nevada Wolfpack
Nevada is a team that might challenge Boise State because of running back Vai Taua who stepped in for the injured Luke Lippincott to lead the WAC with 1,521 rushing yards in 2008. Lippincott, led the WAC in rushing in 2007 with 1,420 yards...
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Preview 2009 Colorado State Opponents: Weber State Wildcats
Weber State is a team from the FCS division but they are one of the better teams. Last year, the Wildcats went 10-4 and made the playoffs last year...
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Evolution of Bowl Money Distrubution
Richard W. Evans a person much smarter then me happens to be a professor at BYU in economics and has four degrees—including a PhD in economics—put together a very good article...
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San Diego State Still on the Hook for Chuck Long
The Doc makes a great analogy in comparing former San Diego State coach Chuck Long to the employee challenged George Costanza—from Seinfeld as if you did not all ready know that...
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The BCS: Breaking Down the Facts
This is similar to the write up with Harve Perlman, but this time it is with Atlanta Journal Constitution writer Tony Barnhart...
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Making the Rounds: All This BCS is Making My Head Hurt
No more promise are to be made of this being the "last" or "next to last" article on the BCS. There is just too much content to ignore the issue. Now I could just write a huge piece filled with thousands of words about the hearings...
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Making the Rounds: Yes More BCS
The Mtn: The Mountain West Sports Network and CBS College Sports has finally expanded their footprint and are expanding with Cox Cable for all of Arizona and Orange County, California...
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Preview of 2009 Colorado State Opponents: Colorado Buffaloes
This rivalry game has been played in Denver since 1998 with the exception of 2004 and 2005. This year Colorado played a card from the contract that allows the game to be moved to its ...
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BCS Hearings Are Upon Us
So, it looks like there will be at least one more post, besides this, regarding the BCS and congress getting involved with allegations that BCS is violating antitrust laws...
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BYU 2009 Opponent Preview: Utah State Aggies
Utah State has a new coach in former Utah defensive coordinator Gary Andersen, and already the program is looking in the right direction. Utah State was actually able to score some points, but their defense was still lacking...
