Nice report. The TE group should be a strength. They are all the rage these days but more importantly that is a position where Davis has an advantage recruiting (as with Harbs Stanford teams) relative to WR. Need to use some of those guys as big options in the slot to offset some of the size issues in the wr room.

Plough didn’t suggest the team actually selects the starter by vote. That would be crazy. He meant you can tell by how the unit operates who the guys have confidence in.

With the Big Ten also playing early in the week and the Big 12 having just a few teams west of the central time zone it seems like there’s an opportunity for a more traditional thurs/sat combo which also avoids NBA Fridays.

Not until late next month. The dominoes need to fall with the networks’ primary partners (Big Ten in this case) before they start filling FS1/2 and CBSSN dates with the MWC.

Saturdays at 2 and Tuesdays or Wednesdays at 6/7.

It’s entirely possible to buy most of these crappy home games and still play at a couple of the Bay Area schools along with home and homes with at least two of UCSB/UCI/UCSD/Poly/Pacific. This is just pathetic. There will be zero local interest in this schedule.

Indefensibly bad.

All Big Sky home games will be on espn+ with the exception of those that are picked up by an ESPN broadcast network. As a fan this is actually a better arrangement than the MW+ has for football.

The SID is run with interns and fellowships. That was one of the cost cutting moves. This issue ranks pretty low on the problems list.

CBSSN and FS2 are in a lot of households but almost nobody tunes in to those channels. And with how they stack events you usually lose half the game to the truck race or frisbee contest that went long prior to tip. This is a downgrade from ESPN+ in a lot of respects.

Agree on the demand for posts. Don’t agree on the roster. You win with age and experience. The inbound guys have neither and the international players always struggle on the defensive end with physical play. The inability to bring in anyone that has had success at any level of college basketball is alarming and points to some reputation/culture issues (and a lack of money). I don’t see this group as an upgrade from last year and the comp has gone up a notch.

Agree. I just don’t see how this works. Hope to be wrong.

From the conference. And that does not consider the cost of a UC scholarship relative to the rest of the conference or the NIL budget. 25 is actually a better bare bones number to be marginally competitive at the sub power league level for Davis.

It’s pretty simple. There isn’t a donor in place to fund the project and there isn’t demand to lease the suites. If CMS hosted a few more proms maybe Cal football would be in the Big Ten.

You are thinking about it the right way. The budget number for MWC football is $20m. A full share of MWC media rights is 3.5m.

They’re both negative numbers. The MWC used all of its cash to keep Air Force and UNLV in the league. There won’t be meaningful conference distributions under this model.

Do the math on the MWC network. Money loser for the schools and the fans.

Just one last season. Four the year prior.

2 points per game at CSUN not likely to work out well in MWC.

Not going to happen. Would already be through the Regents if that was the case. Also remember those boxes have no ROI. The beer garden pays for itself and starts generating NIL funds within 2 years.