NCAA Football '11-'12

[PDH]

Wyoming has been bad for a while, but not THAT bad.  As recently as the 2000s Wyoming has been in the top 25.

We are just a little state, often overlooked, and that is part of it.  I like to play up Wyoming's awfulness as a football team, but in reality the team has won conference championships, gone to (and won some) bowl games, and finished in the top 25 a number of times.  Wyoming is just not that good consistently, like many other smaller D-1 schools.

[PDH]

Of course, Laramie is NOT a garden spot...that might have something to do with it.  Coaching in a town of 30k people, high up and a bit cold for 5 months of the year (and somewhat cold another 2 months...) might be the reason...

[dps]

What do you guys thing the worst job in 1A is?  Eastern Michigan?  Memphis?  Vandy?  Utah State?

[PDH]

Colorado State.

[MadBurgerMaker]

I'd have to go with EMU.  Ypsilanti sucks, there is no fan support that I am aware of, and the team itself generally sucks. 

[dps]

I'd have to go with EMU.  Ypsilanti sucks, there is no fan support that I am aware of, and the team itself generally sucks. 

I don't know the details, but I've read that the institutional support for the football program isn't really even up to 1AA standards, that it's more on the level you expect at a Division II school, but that the Michigan legislature insists that they stay in 1A.  If that's true, it probably is the worst job in 1A

[MadBurgerMaker]

I don't know the details, but I've read that the institutional support for the football program isn't really even up to 1AA standards, that it's more on the level you expect at a Division II school, but that the Michigan legislature insists that they stay in 1A.  If that's true, it probably is the worst job in 1A

I've heard stuff about them being underfunded and all that, mostly from my wife, but nothing specific to the level it would be more normal for.  I do know they are one of those that would probably be better off dropping down a level.

Hey they're bowl eligible this year though, at least.  Maybe they'll get in one and shock some poor slob team that doesn't want to be on the same field as the famed Eagles. 

e:  Well they've got 6 wins.  I didn't look at who they've beaten though, so maybe not.  E2: Nevermind, they need one more.  They've got Ws over Howard and Alabama State.

[PDH]

Maybe they'll get in one and shock some poor slob team that doesn't want to be on the same field as the famed Eagles.

Shhhh!  That is Wyoming's strategy to win bowl games...well, replace Eagles with Cowboys.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Yesssssssssssss

ISU with the big win

[jimmy olsen]

Now if only LSU loses to Arkansas or Georgia there will be complete chaos. 

[Admiral Yi]

Yesssssssssssss

ISU with the big win

Everybody is getting laid tonight in Ames.

[grumbler]

I don't know the details, but I've read that the institutional support for the football program isn't really even up to 1AA standards, that it's more on the level you expect at a Division II school, but that the Michigan legislature insists that they stay in 1A.  If that's true, it probably is the worst job in 1A

I've heard stuff about them being underfunded and all that, mostly from my wife, but nothing specific to the level it would be more normal for.  I do know they are one of those that would probably be better off dropping down a level.

They really are underfunded and have poor football facilities, and are located just a dozen miles form a tam that is far better-known and far more fun to watch, but they are in an all-sports conference, and so the school isn't going to drop a level over football alone.  It isn't a matter of the state legislature.

Having said that, coach English there (former UM DC and a great coach, even if he didn't have his defenses ready until the third game of every season) has done a good job and the team's mojo has turned in a positive direction.  Good for him, but bad for the school, because now he will be hired away.

I don't know if it is the worst job in Div-IA, but if it isn't, the actually winning team must really suck, 'cause the EMU job sucks.

[Ed Anger]

Corso dropped the F-Bomb during the headgear segment. 

[grumbler]

Michigan routs Nebraska to start their half of The Week Before The Game.  M's scoring defense was 110th in the country last year.  The same guys are 5th now.

Ed, looking to see your Bucknuts do the same to Penn State.  I don't think the Buckeyes can do enough to make me think they stand a chance next week, but I always want The Game to mean as much as possible.

[Razgovory]

Yesssssssssssss

ISU with the big win

Everybody is getting laid tonight in Ames.

Packing my bags as we speak.