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  1. On 7/3/2025 at 10:42 PM, shnsajax said:

    Basketball and Baseball will be real good too.

    Basketball, yes.  Baseball?  eh....  

    Oregon State - class of the conference
    Fresno State - roughly .500 the last 5 years, but NCAAs last 2 years
    Texas State - occasionally competitive, hopefully a new HC after next season
    Gonzage - b2b seasons under .500, NCAAs in 16, 18, 21, 22
    SDSU - 4 straight losing seasons, last NCAA 2018
    WSU - barely over .500 the last couple years, dreadful couple before that, last NCAA 2010

    Boise State, Utah State and Colorado State do not have teams

  2. 14 minutes ago, tokamak said:

    Underrated factor. My wife has a bunch of coworkers with high school aged kids in The Woodlands, etc. The ones that aren't going to UT or aggy all want to go to LSU, Bama, even Arkansas. It was eye-opening to me to learn that, but we hear it again and again.

    Are SEC football powerhouses offering a better education than Tech, Texas State, UTSA, etc? Of course not. The difference is big time sports and the associated campus life. My bet is that most Texas public universities are fairly concerned about their branding/perception right now.

    A major difference is the money those schools are offering Texas kids w/ decent grades, because those states don't have the HS grads w/ decent grades to fill those slots.  For reference, if you graduate w/ a 3.6 GPA in TX, it's cheaper to go to Arkansas than it is to go to Texas State, and you get a much bigger university experience, especially if you care about sports.  Between aTm adding 20K students and all those SEC schools pulling so many 2nd tier kids OOS, it's a pretty big deal for TXST and the rest of us not named Texas or Rice.

  3. I get the desire to play closer to home, but that ship has sailed for an elite athletics powerhouse like Stanford. Playing in the PAC would fuck their RPI something fierce.  Never mind not having real competition to prepare them for the NCAA's.

  4. 6 minutes ago, thunderlounge said:

    I haven’t seen it mentioned lately, but the “pac” doesn’t expect to be a power conference right? They’ve resigned themselves to the Group, yes?

    The only people referring to the PAC as a Power 5 conference are online shit stirrers.  Gould hasn't mentioned it once.  Hell, the new PAC isn't as good of a football conference as the Sun Belt, so no, no one is expecting an automatic bid to the playoff.

  5. 1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

    It was a very entertaining game.

    3/4 of it was awesome!

    10 minutes ago, deter said:

    Then lost to poor Sam two weeks later.

    With another 2nd half/4Q collapse.  It didn't help that our best D player was on the sidelines quiet quitting so he could redshirt and get an NIL bag this upcoming year.  Still pissed at that fuckhead...and at GJ for how he handled it.

    But we also completely shit the bed a couple weeks later @ ODU, who would finish the season at 5-7.  Like I said - we had 10-11 wins staring us in the face and we spit the bit.

    8 minutes ago, PGFrog said:

    The biggest red herring out there when it comes to conferences.  

    Maybe, but I also want no part of competing against Stanford, and I don't imagine anyone else in the PAC feels like playing for 2nd in pretty much every sport.

  6. 12 hours ago, chainsaw said:

    They almost beat the Skattebos too

    Spoke to a guy I tailgate with last week about all the PAC news and he tells me he's friends w/ one of ASU's AC.  They spoke recently and the AC told him that the reason our production went to shit in the 4Q was they figured out who our playcaller was (we have like 3 guys calling plays in) and what the plays were.  336yds and 4 TD through 3Q...62yds and 3 TO in the 4th.

    BTW - held Skattebo to his lowest YPC of the year & his 3rd lowest total yds on the year.  Unreal that we stopped their #1 weapon and still lost.  We legit should have had 10 or 11 wins last year - amazing what we pissed away.

  7. The last time we had a good football team was 2005 and made the FCS Final 4.  David Bailiff decided to kneel out regulation and go to overtime when we had been moving the ball all game - 450+yds and 25 1st downs and had like 1:15 left in the 4th.  That decision hangs over our program for eternity.

     

    This dude has come out of nowhere to be our LSUFreek.  He's been cranking out edits like a madman the last 2 weeks.

     

  8. Athletically, Sam would be fine in the SBC.  They would have finished 7th of 14 in Directors' Cup points if they were in the conference last year.

    Their facilities are a joke.  The only reason they're FBS today is the minimum attendance requirement was dropped a couple years ago.  14K is tiny.

  9. 27 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

    Our leadership team, especially the president, has done a phenomenal job.

    Can't be overstated.  The combination of Denise Trauth and Larry Teis was just brutal for us, especially when trying to move to FBS was crippling.  For you Longhorns - think of where you would be if Steve Patterson was your AD for 15 years and the president just couldn't be bothered.  As CDC has been your messiah, so too has Kelly Damphousse been ours.

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  10. Pretty spot-on, especially given that Craven is a UTSA homer and typically slights TXST.

    Why Texas State became a viable option for the Pac-12

    Texas State was always considered a sleeping giant in the G5 ranks inside the Lone Star State. The
    university, which is perfectly situated between the growing metropolises of Austin and San
    Antonio in San Marcos, arguably the coolest college town in Texas, reported an enrollment of
    40,487 in the fall of 2024. That trails only Texas A&M, Texas, Houston, and North Texas.


    But the Bobcats always lacked the two things necessary to turn hope into reality in athletics, and
    specifically in football: leadership and money. Texas State made a bold move to enter the FBS ranks
    ahead of the 2012 season, but the administration at that time lacked the foresight and will power to
    push for more. Texas State did enough to move up, but not enough to capitalize on that move. The
    result? Twelve seasons of subpar results from 2012-2022, which included only one winning season
    and no bowl trips.

    When the university was searching for a new president in 2022, it presented prospective hires with
    six bullet points. One of those was a thinly veiled cry to fix the football program so that the
    university could have a bigger national reach. Texas State eventually hired Dr. Kelly Damphousse, a
    Canadian-turned-Texan who understood the value of football for a university after stints at
    Oklahoma and Arkansas State.

    "The sixth bullet point was phrased as, 'a president who understands the value of athletics,' but I
    knew what that translated to," he told Dave Campbell's Texas Football back in 2023. If a rising tide
    lifts all boats, football is that tide. When I met the search committee, I said that if we can fix
    football, that will take care of a few bullet points, including the one about raising our national
    recognition."

    Damphousse worked quickly to build the realignment and buy-in behind the scenes that is vital for
    athletic success. He made Don Coryell the athletic director and hired G.J. Kinne to be the head
    coach of the football program ahead of the 2023 season. The Bobcats have won eight games and
    the bowl game in consecutive seasons and enter 2025 as one of the favorites to win the Sun Belt.

    With the proper leadership in place, the only thing left standing in the way was finances. Jake
    Spavital, who was the football head coach before Kinne, used his own money to buy jugs machines
    and practice equipment when he was hired ahead of the 2019 season. Finding money for proper
    nutrition was nearly impossible. The only weight room big enough to house the entire Bobcat
    football team was at the local high school. So was the only indoor football facility.

    Turns out, competent leadership also produces better fundraising. Texas State secured $30-
    plus million dollars for renovations of the Weisman Football Performance Center that included the
    addition of the William Trevilian IV Weight Room. The on-campus stadium recieved a facelift that 
    included new field turf and a new name - UFCU Stadium. Those investments made it easier for
    Kinne and the Bobcats to attract the talent required to win at a high level.

    But as college athletics moved towards a revenue-sharing model that goes into place on July 1, even
    more was required. The Sun Belt's media rights deal paid roughly $2 million per school. Rivals like
    UTSA received more than double that amount in the AAC. Something needed to be done, and that
    meant conference realignment. Texas State turned down an invitation to join the Mountain West
    Conference a year ago with the belief that a bigger paycheck would become available. That
    occurred when the Pac-12 began searching for an eighth full-time football member.

    Texas State received the official invite from the Pac-12 on Thursday and plan to formally accept it
    on Monday during a regents meeting. While the final figures of the Pac-12 media rights deal are
    not yet public, the Bobcats will see an increase in pay regardless of if they receive a full share right
    away. The move should also help with fundraising and season ticket sales as games Oregon State,
    Washington State, and Boise State are sure to provide more excitement than Southern Miss and
    Louisiana-Monroe.

    Texas State's glow up is a perfect illustration of what can be accomplished when ambition meets
    alignment. The Bobcats are no longer in the shadows of their peers across the state like UTSA and
    North Texas. While the Pac-12 they're joining is not the Pac-12 of old, the AAC that their in-state
    rivals occupy is also not the AAC of old. Conference realignment has eroded the depth and quality
    of both of those conferences. But that doesn't mean this isn't a historic move for Texas State that
    will raise the national brand of the football program, and in turn raise the profile of the entire
    university.

    Texas State always knew how to win the tailgate. The Bobcats figured out how to win football
    games and how to win over their own fanbase. And it resulted in a move to arguablv the best G6
    conference in existence. A sleeping giant no more, it'll be fun to see what the Bobcats can do now
    that their finances and leadership are clearly improved.

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  11. On 6/27/2025 at 2:23 PM, Sbbruin said:

    I wish they would just change the name of the conference.  For this shit product to carry the great name of the PAC 8/10/12 is a travesty.

    This might have more punch if it didn't come from an alumni of a school that betrayed the conference in the 1st place.

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    I do think they should drop the 12 and just be the PAC.

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  12. That's because it's just about impossible to find a consistent gold from helmet to jersey to pants.  We just went from a more mustard-ish gold to a shinier version and it looks so much better.

     

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  13. Very much so, although it would be nice to have Air Force and UNLV.  Why the MWC and PAC2 didn't just merge is mind bottling.  Even now, adding TXST to that mix for 14 would be better than a Pac8 and whatever the MWC is going to scrap together separately. 

  14. Not really worried about Kinne running off anywhere any time soon.  Unless he pulls a rabbit out of his hat and figures out a way to win 10 games this year, he's in SMTX for a couple more years.  He has the rep of a Leach style offensive mind, but overall, I don't see that in our offense, other than flashes here and there.  The plan and playcalling vs Baylor 2023 was glorious in it's execution, but that hasn't been the standard since.  Leach wanted his players to find the green and get there - be/attack where the defense isn't.  I know I'm always right as the armchair QB/OC who doesn't have to call the plays before he sees them, but I do find myself continually seeing giant gaps in the defense pre-snap and us just ignoring them.  He's nowhere near ready for a P4 gig.

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