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by LKGates
Yesterday, 10:14 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Looks like PAC 12 is officially G5.
Replies: 34
Views: 2291

Re: Looks like PAC 12 is officially G5.

The pukies are defined by their 100+ year demonstrated inclination to play "Screw Your Buddy" at every opportunity. So count on it. [/quote] I understand that in the military (never having served myself), they would be known as a "Blue Falcon". Because, as they say, "Being a buddy is only half of i...
by LKGates
Yesterday, 9:57 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Looks like PAC 12 is officially G5.
Replies: 34
Views: 2291

Re: Looks like PAC 12 is officially G5.

Either way things break in the future, there is no reason for the MWC to stand pat. Our commissioner knows that. I would say, if there are institutions that fit the MWC geographic, institutional, and financial footprint, the Conference should work proactively to entice and invite them to join our l...
by LKGates
April 23rd, 2024, 9:25 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Looks like PAC 12 is officially G5.
Replies: 34
Views: 2291

Re: Looks like PAC 12 is officially G5.

Since the fateful days of Kliakov's Folly, the crumbling downfall of the once mighty PAC12 never really been in doubt. Utah ran for the exits at the first opportunity. As they probably should have. I am in favor of reaching out and helping WSU and OSU to a reasonable soft landing as much as the MWC...
by LKGates
April 20th, 2024, 10:22 pm
Forum: Big Blue's House (General Sports Talk)
Topic: Four Conference Championships so far...
Replies: 1
Views: 321

Four Conference Championships so far...

...this academic year; Men's Basketball, Volleyball, Men's Tennis, and Soccer. There is no reason all of our teams, including Women's Basketball, can't compete at the highest level of the Mountain West Conference. Give us the right head coach, and we should be consistently in the top 1/4 every year ...
by LKGates
April 17th, 2024, 9:03 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Bonner and Rachel
Replies: 13
Views: 1908

Re: Bonner and Rachel

Hey, if the ages were reversed, no one would even notice. I mean, it's not like she's old enough to be his mother.
by LKGates
April 17th, 2024, 9:01 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Mason Falslev at Arctic Cirlce
Replies: 37
Views: 3545

Re: Mason Falslev at Arctic Cirlce

It is a chance for all of us to eat less and fit into those medium shirts. It has been a while since we poked this bear. Paging LKGates! [mention]LKGates[/mention] This should help arouse the bear. SOME of us have a life away from the screen. I think I’m doing OK. Judge for yourself. This is a pict...
by LKGates
April 16th, 2024, 10:45 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Relevance
Replies: 4
Views: 1126

Re: Relevance

That's one of the reasons I don't think these mega conferences are not going to be stable in the long term. No conference bigger than 12 teams has survived long term.
by LKGates
April 7th, 2024, 10:04 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: NIL and foreign players
Replies: 74
Views: 4132

Re: NIL and foreign players

Unctuous self congratulations, with an ear focused on what Europeans are presenting thinking, are always a great look. Can someone translate this for me? I can. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I may completely agree with what he is writing but due to the constant showboating of his vocabulary I will ...
by LKGates
April 7th, 2024, 9:17 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: NIL and foreign players
Replies: 74
Views: 4132

Re: NIL and foreign players

Unctuous self congratulations, with an ear focused on what Europeans are presenting thinking, are always a great look. Can someone translate this for me? I can. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I may completely agree with what he is writing but due to the constant showboating of his vocabulary I will ...
by LKGates
April 7th, 2024, 9:01 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Current State of USU Basketball
Replies: 659
Views: 72861

Re: Current State of USU Basketball

Hey if he wants the challenge Utah State can give it to him. I remember taking classes when a 40% was the high. Engineering will kick his butt IF that’s what he wants… I took a grad level stats/math class where we had 14 students. In fall quarter I got a Cminus. I dropped the other two classes in t...
by LKGates
April 7th, 2024, 8:54 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: NIL and foreign players
Replies: 74
Views: 4132

Re: NIL and foreign players

Unctuous self congratulations, with an ear focused on what Europeans are presenting thinking, are always a great look. Can someone translate this for me? I can. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I may completely agree with what he is writing but due to the constant showboating of his vocabulary I will ...
by LKGates
April 7th, 2024, 8:53 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: NIL and foreign players
Replies: 74
Views: 4132

Re: NIL and foreign players

Clearly there's a way foreign players can accept and get NIL money because it's happening across college basketball. End of story. Rumor has it the SEC found a loophole. They place stacks of non-sequential bills in small denominations in brown paper bags and hand them directly to the kids. Basicall...
by LKGates
April 3rd, 2024, 6:09 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Utah's NIT run
Replies: 7
Views: 852

Re: Utah's NIT run

So, our slice of UNLV's NIT participation should buy our guys Gatorade for one game?
by LKGates
April 3rd, 2024, 12:42 am
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: #nobodycares
Replies: 31
Views: 2268

Re: #nobodycares

Stunner! Good to see you bringing some Spirit, Honor, Integrity, and Tradition to the board! So, are you going to be a New Mexico fan now, with Bishop Mendenhall coaching Los Lobos?
by LKGates
April 1st, 2024, 3:18 pm
Forum: Big Blue's House (General Sports Talk)
Topic: USU Women's Bball
Replies: 1324
Views: 111041

Re: USU Women's Bball

Tennessee coach just got fired!!! shoot for the Moon!! only a couple million buyout!! Isn't it the exact opposite? If she was fired, there is no buy-out. In fact, UT is on the hook to continue paying her salary, unless she was fired "for cause". Kind of like when Matt Wells was a consultant at Okla...
by LKGates
March 29th, 2024, 5:59 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Jerrod Calhoun!!!
Replies: 302
Views: 26355

Re: Jerrod Calhoun from Youngstown State?

ViAggie wrote:
March 29th, 2024, 4:50 pm
yes, as discussed in several other threads.
Sorry. Be patient with me. I haven't been keeping up as well as I could have.

I only bring it up because I know a guy who knows a guy... who told me today that it looks like he may be the guy...
by LKGates
March 29th, 2024, 4:58 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Let Me Set the Record Straight
Replies: 142
Views: 14028

Re: Let Me Set the Record Straight

There's a term for journalists who are 100% accurate. They're called HISTORIANS. No journalist can ever be more accurate than the information to which he has access. 22 is about as good as it gets. Really, when it comes to information, there are only 3-4 of you on this site that I actually trust, 22...
by LKGates
March 29th, 2024, 4:44 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Jerrod Calhoun!!!
Replies: 302
Views: 26355

Jerrod Calhoun from Youngstown State?

I'm hearing this may be a possibility...
by LKGates
March 29th, 2024, 4:39 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: PAC-2 this much closer to merging in with us
Replies: 28
Views: 2739

Re: PAC-2 this much closer to merging in with us

Has the MWC offered the PAC-2 a one-time discounted enrollment fee in light of their current situation with a specific expiry date, like in the next 10 days? Take it or leave it. This represents the MWC's full and only offer in 2024. I am sure my vision of where the PAC2 is going is not without bia...
by LKGates
March 28th, 2024, 9:31 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: PAC-2 this much closer to merging in with us
Replies: 28
Views: 2739

Re: PAC-2 this much closer to merging in with us

At first all this stuff seemed exciting, but now... ???? *shrugs shoulders* yays we get Oregon State and Washington State in our conference, yays *shrugs shoulders* At least Wazu is good in Basketball! I'll give them that. Makes us easily the best west coast BB conference (B12 doesn't count because...
by LKGates
March 28th, 2024, 9:01 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: PAC-2 this much closer to merging in with us
Replies: 28
Views: 2739

Re: PAC-2 this much closer to merging in with us

At first all this stuff seemed exciting, but now... ???? *shrugs shoulders* yays we get Oregon State and Washington State in our conference, yays *shrugs shoulders* At least Wazu is good in Basketball! I'll give them that. Makes us easily the best west coast BB conference (B12 doesn't count because...
by LKGates
March 28th, 2024, 8:44 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: PAC-2 this much closer to merging in with us
Replies: 28
Views: 2739

Re: PAC-2 this much closer to merging in with us

I just posted my thoughts in the "MWC Schools" thread. I'm sure you'll all want to rush right over. Because who wouldn't want my insights, right?
by LKGates
March 28th, 2024, 8:40 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: MWC Schools
Replies: 44
Views: 4080

Re: MWC Schools

A few thoughts. In some ways, we're in uncharted territory. There have been several instances of schools leaving one conference for another, or a conference splitting into two conferences, but I can't think of a conference merger. That's more than a technical distinction. The most obvious point is, ...
by LKGates
March 27th, 2024, 11:58 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Smith vs Odom
Replies: 67
Views: 3201

Re: Smith vs Odom

Well crap. To put lipstick on the pig, now I hope Utah wins the NIT, saving Smith's contract, so the excruciating mediocrity can grind on in Salt Lake...
by LKGates
March 27th, 2024, 3:20 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Smith vs Odom
Replies: 67
Views: 3201

Re: Smith vs Odom

Section_L_Aggie wrote:
March 27th, 2024, 3:18 pm
Only mildly related but UNLV is also in the NIT quarterfinals tonight. Go Running Rebs!
I haven't paid attention. Do we get any payout from University of Never Left Vegas being in the NIT, similar to NCAA credits?
by LKGates
March 27th, 2024, 3:12 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Smith vs Odom
Replies: 67
Views: 3201

Re: Smith vs Odom

SLB wrote:
March 27th, 2024, 3:09 pm
It is a reminder that we did well in finding winning coaches.
Or a reminder that a couple of average coaches were lucky to land here. ;)
by LKGates
March 27th, 2024, 3:05 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Smith vs Odom
Replies: 67
Views: 3201

Re: Smith vs Odom

My preference would be for fire to rain down from heaven and consume them both. That, or a sandstorm that lasts for a year... In lieu of that, I have to go with VCU. They're 3/4 of a continent away, and largely irrelevant to USU. Anything that lowers the standing of the U is a good thing.
by LKGates
March 25th, 2024, 8:52 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Head Coaches that we should consider
Replies: 111
Views: 7339

Re: Head Coaches that we should consider

I haven't seen any mention of David Riley at Eastern Washington. Any reason why not? Any thoughts?
by LKGates
March 11th, 2024, 6:00 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: MWC Schools
Replies: 44
Views: 4080

Re: MWC Schools

Ultimately there will only be two Power Conferences left standing, the Big10 and the SEC, and it will likely exist as a FB only structure with 32 teams in two e/w divisions with two n/s pods, just like the NFL. Boise jumping to another conference isn't likely as the left overs from the B10/SEC merg...
by LKGates
March 10th, 2024, 7:43 pm
Forum: Big Blue's House (General Sports Talk)
Topic: USU Women's Bball
Replies: 1324
Views: 111041

Re: USU Women's Bball

Ard delenda est.
by LKGates
March 9th, 2024, 1:21 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: More conference changes coming? maybe
Replies: 16
Views: 2067

Re: More conference changes coming? maybe

The era of growth by addition is almost over. It probably ends when Florida State, and either Notre Dame or Clemson joins the SEC to round out a twenty team conference. After that, the best way to increase per member revenue is growth by subtraction, throwing the low performers overboard. As the art...
by LKGates
March 2nd, 2024, 11:16 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: You suck Washington
Replies: 31
Views: 2377

Re: You suck Washington

Odom was gone in late January. This stuff sucks 100% true story. Any additional info you can provide us regarding Sprinkle? Figure most things are pretty tight lipped right now if there is anything of substance but who knows. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I don't have anything one way or the o...
by LKGates
February 28th, 2024, 10:13 pm
Forum: Big Blue's House (General Sports Talk)
Topic: Mountain Lion sighting on campus this morning (Aggie alert)
Replies: 10
Views: 1175

Re: Mountain Lion sighting on campus this morning (Aggie alert)

The problem is the deer. Mountain lions go where the deer are. Twenty-five years ago, I remember hearing that there was a permanent herd of about 300 deer in Logan. They can jump a 6' fence. The interiors of most of the blocks in the old residential areas are fairly big, and offer lots of browse. I ...
by LKGates
February 27th, 2024, 4:50 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Jalen Montonati
Replies: 19
Views: 1654

Re: Jalen Montonati

Surprised I haven't seen this here. Did I overlook it? Sprinkle offered a 5-star (9th overall) SF from Oklahoma. Class of 2026. https://247sports.com/player/jalen-montonati-46135970/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk If BB recruits are anything like FB recruits, kids with this high of ranking usua...
by LKGates
February 24th, 2024, 10:58 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: PAC 12 let their commissioner go
Replies: 15
Views: 2168

Re: PAC 12 let their commissioner go

On paper, I like the idea of adding OSU and WSU to the conference. That would bring the total number Land Grant schools to 7 in a 14 member conference. In practice, I am concerned that they would be like Boise State and San Diego State, absolutely sure that they are better than the rest of us, alway...