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by OKAggie
Yesterday, 6:18 am
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: NAR: Seattle and Grand Canyon are part of the WCC
Replies: 47
Views: 2013

Re: NAR: Seattle and Grand Canyon are part of the WCC

Makes SUUs gambit to join the WAC continue to be a poor decision. Should have stayed in the Big Sky… What were they thinking? Like that's a career ending decision. I think they were thinking with their football head. WAC continues to expand into Texas with former FCS schools who have FBS ambitions,...
by OKAggie
May 10th, 2024, 3:03 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Le’gone
Replies: 294
Views: 22737

Re: Legas…gone

If I hear TU chatter at church this Sunday, it will be the first time in my 27 years here. I know exactly one church member here who is a solid TU fan (incidentally his dad was the BYU coach who preceded LaVell) ‐‐--------------------------------------------------------- I KNEW MY PAST WOULD COME B...
by OKAggie
May 7th, 2024, 10:58 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: October 12, 1971...
Replies: 1
Views: 517

October 12, 1971...

...was the last time (before tonight) that two USU Aggies played in the same NBA game. Shaler Halimon (in his last NBA game) and the Atlanta Hawks were at Cincinnati to play Nate Williams and the Royals. Super Shay went scoreless in 4 minutes, Nate scored 14 for the victorious Royals. Nate was in hi...
by OKAggie
May 7th, 2024, 7:48 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Le’gone
Replies: 294
Views: 22737

Re: Legas…gone

Sorry, this has probably been mentioned ten times elsewhere, but does he have one or two years remaining? TU is a mid-tier AAC program and has had so-so QB play for years. Hope Coop can take the job early. He’ll learn soon that Chapman Stadium doesn’t have the atmosphere of the Mav. An average Hurd...
by OKAggie
May 7th, 2024, 5:43 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Le’gone
Replies: 294
Views: 22737

Re: Legas…gone

Sorry, this has probably been mentioned ten times elsewhere, but does he have one or two years remaining? TU is a mid-tier AAC program and has had so-so QB play for years. Hope Coop can take the job early. He’ll learn soon that Chapman Stadium doesn’t have the atmosphere of the Mav. An average Hurd ...
by OKAggie
May 6th, 2024, 9:02 am
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Isaac Davis to USU?
Replies: 275
Views: 30683

Re: Isaac Davis to USU?

Either it wasn't true, or it's something that should have only been shared with paying subscribers on Cougarboard Premium. ...or they found some more NIL money. :noidea: Is "NIL money" at BYU code word for "tithing money"? Ahhh, tithing. The biggest scam in human history. Glad none of my money supp...
by OKAggie
May 5th, 2024, 9:01 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Isaac Davis to USU?
Replies: 275
Views: 30683

Re: Isaac Davis to USU?

Either it wasn't true, or it's something that should have only been shared with paying subscribers on Cougarboard Premium. ...or they found some more NIL money. :noidea: Is "NIL money" at BYU code word for "tithing money"? Ahhh, tithing. The biggest scam in human history. Glad none of my money supp...
by OKAggie
May 4th, 2024, 12:47 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Hillstead Transferring
Replies: 141
Views: 11522

Re: Hillstead Transferring

AGGIEinIOWA wrote:
May 4th, 2024, 11:18 am
https://www.deseret.com/sports/2024/05/ ... arterback/

Supposed reasons he left and why he chose YBU
(CTRL-F concussion = zero results)
by OKAggie
May 1st, 2024, 9:47 am
Forum: Big Blue's House (General Sports Talk)
Topic: Women's Soccer Tickets??
Replies: 17
Views: 990

Re: Women's Soccer Tickets??

Wow, looks like Coach Martins has put together a strong out of conference schedule: https://utahstateaggies.com/news/2024/4/26/womens-soccer-utah-state-soccer-announces-2024-schedule.aspx Impressive! Too bad none of the in-state games are at home. Yeah, seems like most of last year's in-state games...
by OKAggie
April 27th, 2024, 7:04 am
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Current State of USU Basketball
Replies: 877
Views: 104643

Current State of USU Basketball

Real Life Aggie wrote:
April 26th, 2024, 5:51 pm
* * *

They're looking for a missionary in the streets and an apostate in the sheets. I bet Zack Wilson's mom's friends' husbands want to take him to Disneyland.
This is the Apostrophe Olympics equivalent of sticking the quadruple lutz. 10!
by OKAggie
April 25th, 2024, 12:03 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Davon Booth to Transfer
Replies: 96
Views: 6871

Re: Davon Booth to Transfer

* * * I quite like this idea, although you still couldn't restrict your players from taking big money from the P4 schools - how would you enforce your one-transfer rule? Your P4s and G6s are still subject to the same laws and precedents, unless the G6s unionized their players and made one-transfer ...
by OKAggie
April 25th, 2024, 11:10 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Rahsul Faison
Replies: 128
Views: 10185

Re: Rahsul Faison

USU78 wrote:
April 25th, 2024, 11:07 am
This one hurts bad
Somebody's leaving. Somebody else will take his place. We won't know what any of it means until August. But yeah, sorry to see him go.
by OKAggie
April 19th, 2024, 6:52 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Davon Booth to Transfer
Replies: 96
Views: 6871

Re: Davon Booth to Transfer

I just don't see a reason to keep putting resources into football in this new paradigm. It sucks. Exactly. At what point do the smaller schools just drop school-sponsored sports all together? What is the point of trying to compete on a national level when you have no chance to keep up with the big ...
by OKAggie
April 19th, 2024, 6:18 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: BA the Coach and NIL/Transfers
Replies: 10
Views: 989

Re: BA the Coach and NIL/Transfers

For a lot of these guys, this is the only opportunity they will have to play football for money. How can you blame them? And good riddance to them, whatever their names are. I really don't know how you keep a fan base and donors for a program that has this kind of turnover every year. I salute thos...
by OKAggie
April 18th, 2024, 9:31 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Le’gone
Replies: 294
Views: 22737

Re: Legas…gone

Blake "coached Coop hard" and sitting in the stands right behind the team all last season, it was obvious that he got ripped into much more often than any other QBs. Granted, this is only observation from the stands and I never heard what Blake was screaming at Coop about, but I was more shocked th...
by OKAggie
April 18th, 2024, 9:21 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: Le’gone
Replies: 294
Views: 22737

Re: Legas…gone

Blake "coached Coop hard" and sitting in the stands right behind the team all last season, it was obvious that he got ripped into much more often than any other QBs. Granted, this is only observation from the stands and I never heard what Blake was screaming at Coop about, but I was more shocked th...
by OKAggie
April 17th, 2024, 9:24 am
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Mason Falslev at Arctic Cirlce
Replies: 37
Views: 3625

Re: Mason Flaslev at Arctic Cirlce

dirtnsnow wrote:
April 17th, 2024, 8:05 am
Is it just me or is there an unusually high number of typos in this thread?
No, right about average for this board
by OKAggie
April 14th, 2024, 7:46 am
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: USU Transfer Portal Tracker
Replies: 205
Views: 27844

Re: USU Transfer Portal Tracker

https://twitter.com/dallingrant1/status/1779264036682793315?s=61&t=SlKMzW3GHMowv5tQNXqEOA Good for Dallin. Good opportunity to probably get immediate playing time. Also close that is family can attend all the home games. I am happy for him. It's not close to his family at all. Do they not still liv...
by OKAggie
April 12th, 2024, 9:31 am
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Pope to Kentucky
Replies: 212
Views: 13577

Re: Pope to Kentucky

Where's Alex Jensen these days? Is he card-carrying?
by OKAggie
April 4th, 2024, 6:35 am
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: The NCAA isn't coming to save us
Replies: 13
Views: 1178

The NCAA isn't coming to save us

In the interest of board coherence, may I make a suggestion? Stop suggesting that the NCAA do something about NIL, or the free-transfer rule, or essentially anything. It cannot. Every time it goes to court to restrict the rights of players, it loses. Its Enforcement employees are probably hiding und...
by OKAggie
April 4th, 2024, 5:48 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: 2024 Utah State Spring Football Mid-Spring Depth Chart
Replies: 16
Views: 1899

Re: 2024 Utah State Spring Football Mid-Spring Depth Chart

How about Max Alford's recovery and rehab? If he's back to 100% healthy, where would he slot in?
by OKAggie
March 30th, 2024, 2:22 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Not a Fan of Sabau Thus Far
Replies: 127
Views: 10243

Re: Not a Fan of Sabau Thus Far

Every time I see this thread I read it as not a fan of Subarus. Which is fighting words in Utah. TBF I grew up and my parents had a Subaru station wagon. We also had a Subaru Justy when I was a toddler butone if my sisters took that to college. I think I remembered it, but not really. https://i.pos...
by OKAggie
March 30th, 2024, 11:08 am
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: MWC Schools
Replies: 44
Views: 4177

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 OKAggie
March 27th, 2024, 3:21 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Interesting Blue A Collective Article
Replies: 39
Views: 2005

Re: Interesting Blue A Collective Article

Contracts are going to be needed. If the NIL money being given to an athlete is tied to a years, games played, etc. If they are being treated as a professional athlete then they shouldn't be able to hit free agency every year unless they are signing 1 year agreements. All of that requires congressi...
by OKAggie
March 27th, 2024, 2:58 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Interesting Blue A Collective Article
Replies: 39
Views: 2005

Re: Interesting Blue A Collective Article

Contracts are going to be needed. If the NIL money being given to an athlete is tied to a years, games played, etc. If they are being treated as a professional athlete then they shouldn't be able to hit free agency every year unless they are signing 1 year agreements. All of that requires congressi...
by OKAggie
March 25th, 2024, 12:57 pm
Forum: Big Blue's House (General Sports Talk)
Topic: NIL where did it go wrong?
Replies: 17
Views: 1056

Re: NIL where did it go wrong?

USU78 wrote:
March 25th, 2024, 6:44 am
3rdGenAggie wrote:
March 24th, 2024, 10:56 pm
The NCAA is corrupt and feckless. That's where NIL went wrong.
Because TV is corrupt because advertisers are corrupt because because because.

There ain't no good guys.
There ain't no bad guys.
FIFY
by OKAggie
March 23rd, 2024, 3:27 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Fun facts about the TCU win
Replies: 4
Views: 698

Fun facts about the TCU win

16: the biggest winning margin in a tournament game for USU - previous record 10 v UTEP in 1970

0: the number of games TCU lost by at least 16 this season, including an 18 game season (9-9) plus three in B12T in what’s considered the best basketball conference in D1 (lost to Houston in CT by 15)
by OKAggie
March 13th, 2024, 5:37 am
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: WBB: Ard fired before presser
Replies: 94
Views: 7206

Re: WBB: Ard fired before presser

* * * This is also a case of BJ Rains being a drama queen and poor reporter. He is the one who interjected the phrase in his tweet that the coach was "just" fired before the press conference. Ard's words were: "...I just coached my last game at Utah State. I spoke with Diana and their going in a di...
by OKAggie
March 10th, 2024, 11:14 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Big Sky Results
Replies: 19
Views: 1688

Re: Big Sky Results

Zee Hamoda 5-5 from three as Sac State upset #1 seed E Wash! Go Zee!
by OKAggie
March 10th, 2024, 1:35 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Who's your money on?
Replies: 13
Views: 1223

Who's your money on?

First odds are out, and this poll uses these odds from Draft Kings posted at 12:26 am today. Who's your money on?
by OKAggie
March 10th, 2024, 1:25 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Most likely to post the First Round upset
Replies: 3
Views: 446

Most likely to post the First Round upset

Once in a while there's a Wednesday surprise - remember that Sam and Company had to get through #11 seed Wyoming in the semis before beating SDSU in the 2020 final. Those Pokes were 2-16 coming into the tourney but beat #6 CSU and #3 Nevada to get to the semifinals.
by OKAggie
March 9th, 2024, 2:10 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: Wind is out of the sails
Replies: 41
Views: 2657

Re: Wind is out of the sails

As I said when Craig left : There isn't a coach anywhere on earth that loves USU as much as we do, who can also coach at this level, and whose only professional desire is to coach here for the rest of his career. If I'm wrong, tell me, and cc: Diana Sabau. So by definition everyone who comes here c...
by OKAggie
March 8th, 2024, 10:50 pm
Forum: Stew Morrill Court (Aggie Basketball)
Topic: #1 seed locked in?
Replies: 19
Views: 1198

Re: #1 seed locked in?

Dammit people, just read the rules. Bookmark this for future reference.
by OKAggie
March 7th, 2024, 2:13 pm
Forum: Merlin Olsen Field (Aggie Football)
Topic: More conference changes coming? maybe
Replies: 16
Views: 2102

Re: More conference changes coming? maybe

This is coming and I've been saying it for a long time now, there will be a new division of just 32 teams and it will likely be for FB only, but it's coming. Oh and ybu will NOT be a part of it, sorry lurking cougars. Utah? Maybe but still doubtful. Why 32? I'm guessing two 9 team leagues. Each pla...