Big sky conference teams: contenders or pretenders

Helcat72 · Post by **Helcat72** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:21 pm

McNeese has already beaten GSU this year.

Grizlaw · Post by **Grizlaw** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:58 pm

CARDIAC_CATS wrote: If New Hampshire might have had their stud WR I would maybe agree with you. W/O him all they could do was run the ball and be very vanilla. They were not a very good team at the end of the year (especially w/o that WR). Average defense (1-2 great players but that was it) and a wounded offense. But hey, I wouldn't have been complaining either if the Cats played them and they lost their stud WR as well too .

Ok that's fair with regard to their game against us, but their wins last year @ GSU and Rutgers were still impressive, and this year they do appear to be for real (although it is early and anything could happen). This year they have beaten a good UC Davis team on the road, and their other three games have all been huge blowouts over I-AA teams (granted, one was Dartmouth...another was Towson, who I would normally snicker at, but Towson did beat Delaware this weekend).

--GL

Platinumcat · Post by **Platinumcat** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:13 pm

This conversation probably could go on forever with regards to whether the Big Sky is just tough or weak when compared with the rest of the nation.
The reason I asked for Matt's input is that he makes his living evaluating I-AA and gets to watch a lot more games in the Easterrn part of the US. I thought he would have a decent perspective as to the athleticism of teams here vs there.
One thing I liked in the past from the Griz schedule was playing Maine and/or Hofstra in the preseason games. I always wished the Cats would do the same. Can it really cost that much more to travel to play an A-10 team vs going to California and playing Cal Poly?
By the way, I guess I"m one of those guys who just keeps hitting his head against the wall because I like the fact that we play Cal Poly.