OT Boring Offseason Stuff

[Techster88]

1. WT still has a sucking sound louder than the black hole in football

2. D3 schools formed a conference so Sul Ross can go quietly back to where its football program belongs

3. East Texas A&M has been a pathetic joke in FCS. Underfunded and finding ways to lose to crap in the SLC.

Awful and even after transition the Lions will be terrible. No foundation for the future.

And I didn’t even mention the coaching?


4. It’s all over the other sports boards that Tarleton will have more than $40 million to operate on as an athletic budget despite what Moosehead believes.

I was told that Tarleton is still in talks with MWC. If that matters to anyone.

I would like to see the WAC six including Tarleton stay together at least until I see if they can get to a Natty

playoffs year 1 impressive

Finally a reputable reporter named Brown is predicting a ton of D1 schools dropping down or dropping athletics

thats all I got

[LSC Fan]

5). Tech being Tech and chocking in their roundball game the other day.

[Buffalo/Islander Alum]

I mean this LSC board would be as dead as the independent forum if we didnt have these things to talk and b!tch about in the off season.

[BuffaloChip]

1. WT still has a sucking sound louder than the black hole in football

2. D3 schools formed a conference so Sul Ross can go quietly back to where its football program belongs

3. East Texas A&M has been a pathetic joke in FCS. Underfunded and finding ways to lose to crap in the SLC.

Awful and even after transition the Lions will be terrible. No foundation for the future.

And I didn’t even mention the coaching?


4. It’s all over the other sports boards that Tarleton will have more than $40 million to operate on as an athletic budget despite what Moosehead believes.

I was told that Tarleton is still in talks with MWC. If that matters to anyone.

I would like to see the WAC six including Tarleton stay together at least until I see if they can get to a Natty

playoffs year 1 impressive

Finally a reputable reporter named Brown is predicting a ton of D1 schools dropping down or dropping athletics

thats all I got

Matt Brown newsletter Extra Points. Interesting thoughts on D1's reclassifying.

[Goods]

How many D1's move to D2? We all just heard of that St. Francis team going to D3 basically the day after their 15 minutes of fame in March Madness. All I really care about is how many D1's would move to D2 within SR3 and SR4, so CWU can schedule a non-conf with them.

[WT_TKW]

1. WT still has a sucking sound louder than the black hole in football

2. D3 schools formed a conference so Sul Ross can go quietly back to where its football program belongs

3. East Texas A&M has been a pathetic joke in FCS. Underfunded and finding ways to lose to crap in the SLC.

Awful and even after transition the Lions will be terrible. No foundation for the future.

And I didn’t even mention the coaching?


4. It’s all over the other sports boards that Tarleton will have more than $40 million to operate on as an athletic budget despite what Moosehead believes.

I was told that Tarleton is still in talks with MWC. If that matters to anyone.

I would like to see the WAC six including Tarleton stay together at least until I see if they can get to a Natty

playoffs year 1 impressive

Finally a reputable reporter named Brown is predicting a ton of D1 schools dropping down or dropping athletics

thats all I got

This topic is SO BORING (but accurate).

707

[Techster88]

5). Tech being Tech and chocking in their roundball game the other day.

Yeah, I heard. I never really got into watching basketball. I loved playing it one on one, basketbrawl at the local gym or park and even playing HS. All district

The only way I can watch a basketball game is if I know a person playing. I guess my interest really isn’t basketball but the friend and what they do or don’t do during the game.

[WT_TKW]

Yeah, I heard. I never really got into watching basketball. I loved playing it one on one, basketbrawl at the local gym or park and even playing HS. All district

The only way I can watch a basketball game is if I know a person playing. I guess my interest really isn’t basketball but the friend and what they do or don’t do during the game.

I used basketball often as a cheap date while at WT when we were D1. We had a really good team, but the stall got boring.

A long time ago the 76ers played the Rockets in Houston. Maurice Cheeks was playing for Philly. That's the only NBA game I've ever attended.

In 2015 I watched the Lady Buffs defeat Cameron in ladies basketball. It was tolerable, but I've never considered going again.

Those are the only 2 basketball games I've been to since I graduated from WT.

I enjoy golfing, but I really hate watching it on TV.

[cwfenn]

How many D1's move to D2? We all just heard of that St. Francis team going to D3 basically the day after their 15 minutes of fame in March Madness. All I really care about is how many D1's would move to D2 within SR3 and SR4, so CWU can schedule a non-conf with them.

These days, it looks like smaller D1's are looking to go scorched earth on athletics spending. Sure, there's probably some fuzzy math going on at the D3 level when it comes to player compensation, but the schools that moved down want no athletic scholarship money and definitely no NIL money and minimal transfer portal. They're not moving down to be more successful, they want to cut costs.

I do fear that D2 was once the happy medium, but is starting to become the third wheel.

[Buffalo/Islander Alum]

These days, it looks like smaller D1's are looking to go scorched earth on athletics spending. Sure, there's probably some fuzzy math going on at the D3 level when it comes to player compensation, but the schools that moved down want no athletic scholarship money and definitely no NIL money and minimal transfer portal. They're not moving down to be more successful, they want to cut costs.

I do fear that D2 was once the happy medium, but is starting to become the third wheel.

D2 in my eyes now is nothing more than the equivalent of professional double AA baseball in all sports looking for mostly FCS opportunities and FCS is triple AAA baseball in all sports hoping for a power 5 NIL spot. D3 I would consider independent baseball level.

Heck even WT's QB from last year may be the UTPB starting QB.

It was entertaining looking at the basketball transfer portal when it first started but now its depressing as a small school (TAMUCC) alum.

As soon as the season is over then all the good to decent players jump in the portal and you have to reload with hopefully equal players from similar small schools that didnt get their dream invite or the rare case where you grab a mid major player that helps your team and then they jump in the portal after they are coached up and improved themselves.

Then if your coach leaves (see Texas A&M and McNeese St.) then hello rebuild.

[Techster88]

The portal is killing the Mid Majors. No other way to look at it. Absolutely no stability or foundation to build on.

I believe there will always be D2 Football as long as it’s affordable for the universities.

It will be up to each university to determine if the outlay of investment nets a return. Once it’s no longer vital or cost effective these programs will be discontinued.

[Goods]

I can't believe the experts didn't see this............or on the flip side, maybe it's good that it's pandemonium now, so they can better regulate it in the future. Because that's what I think when the NCAA and/or government is involved with things..........fairness and transparency in regulatory matters.

[MooseLodge]

From a strategic standpoint, I've never been a huge fan of D2 overall. It seems to combine all of the disadvantages of D1 and D3 together: The obscurity and very low revenue of D3, but the tremendous scholarship expense.

Nationally, D3 is every bit as popular as D2. If I was a university president and I wasn't going to be D1, I'd do D3 all day long.

I'd love to see WT be D1, but I haven't ever seen the support at the school to justify it. People of the area mostly don't care, in any meaningful financial way. They are busy cheering for Tech, OU, Texas, etc. It's an interesting phenomenon for a metropolitan service area of this size, not to have a D1 home team. Probably the only example in the U.S.

[ASUPops]

These days, it looks like smaller D1's are looking to go scorched earth on athletics spending. Sure, there's probably some fuzzy math going on at the D3 level when it comes to player compensation, but the schools that moved down want no athletic scholarship money and definitely no NIL money and minimal transfer portal. They're not moving down to be more successful, they want to cut costs.

I do fear that D2 was once the happy medium, but is starting to become the third wheel.

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[ASUPops]

From a strategic standpoint, I've never been a huge fan of D2 overall. It seems to combine all of the disadvantages of D1 and D3 together: The obscurity and very low revenue of D3, but the tremendous scholarship expense.

Nationally, D3 is every bit as popular as D2. If I was a university president and I wasn't going to be D1, I'd do D3 all day long.

I'd love to see WT be D1, but I haven't ever seen the support at the school to justify it. People of the area mostly don't care, in any meaningful financial way. They are busy cheering for Tech, OU, Texas, etc. It's an interesting phenomenon for a metropolitan service area of this size, not to have a D1 home team. Probably the only example in the U.S.

Agree.

I think the current LSC programs should either make the move to FCS or go D3.