Welcome Back Idaho........NOT!

[SDHornet]

As for Portland State and Sac moving up to FBS, (LMFAO). It is not just the number of seats in your stadium. It is also the number of butts in the seats. It is true that they have large metropolitan areas to draw from, so does WSU, MSU, and UM, but they are going to need a larger fan base first. It has already been said, leagues like the MWC are finding it hard to stay with the big boys, in football, and realignment is a high likelyhood.

Clearly you haven’t been paying attention to the driver behind all the recent realignment. TV sets have been the driver…the conference(s) make their money on the TV deals, not tickets sold. Any program located in a large metro area will always be considered a candidate...always.

You think the Montana’s are located in a large metro area?!? Wow.

 

[SDHornet]

I don’t think you would find any Hornet fans who wouldn’t want to be in a conference with Fresno, San Jose, and Nevada.

I am not sure you would find many Fresno, Spartan or Wolfpack fans that would consider Sac State a strong addition to the conference. In my opinion Sac would have been viewed in the same light as the other desperation schools that the WAC tried to add at the 11th hour to save themselves. (Nevada and Fresno were moving on to the MWC by that point)

I think the WAC would have survived as a football conference if the two Montanas, Sac and Portland State would have been willing to take the leap. The two Montanas bring full stadiums, and Sac and PSU bring metro populations with television sets. I'm not saying it would have been an easy road, but all four schools could have been immediately competitive in the WAC pre-implosion. I'm thankful they all stayed around and kept the Big Sky viable, and now that the WAC is out of the football business, I don't see any place for any of them to go that's in the Western U.S. But never say never when it comes to conference realignment. If the Mountain West gets raided again, doors will open and I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see those four Big Sky schools step through them.

I don't think the MWC will get raided and I don't think there will be much movement outside of the WAC maybe finding a D2 move up. Once that Big East deal Boise was trying to swing fell through, that pretty much ended the chances of any MWC members leaving.

 

[oldrunner]

Clearly, Sac and Idaho have such huge fan bases, constantly selling out 21,000 seat stadiums, that they should start petitioning to get into the PAC14 or the Big East. They really are shoe-ins. The rest of us will need to work hard to grow the BSC into something better. Such is the lot of the rest of us poor b*****rds.

 

[Skippy]

Idaho never wanted to come back to the Big Sky, it wasnt until they didnt have any other options that they said Fine we'll go back. The move back to the BSC was done grudgingly by the university, and now that they are officially in the University talks about how great it is to be back among traditional rivals, I dont believe a word of it. They dont want to be here and will bolt the chance they get...........if any.

And Idaho's fans are so butt hurt about moving from one D1 conference to another that they spend all thier time badmouthing and trashing the only conference they ever had success in. Talking about how the Big Sky is a step down when in all actuality it was a latteral move. I cant believe there would come a time I would hate another fanbase more than Montana's :yikes: Well except maybe the other instate morons.

As for Sac State, Im glad they are with us in the Big Sky and hope they stay with us for a while longer

We all like to salve our insecurities by down-grading other programs. "Big Five" conference fans make fun of Boise State and their blue turf. BSU fans laugh about Idaho and their lousy football program. Idaho fans denigrate the Big Sky because, well, what else do they have to make fun of? And Idaho State fans make fun of Idaho's quixotic FBS football adventures because, well what else DO THEY have to make fun of?