Big Sky is tanned, rested and ready!

[UberCougars]

The realignment wave that began with thunderous news from SEC country four years ago has touched 11 conferences, altered the future for dozens of schools and shifted the balance of power within the NCAA. When will it end?

In tiny Farmington, Utah, 20 miles north of Salt Lake City along Interstate 15, executives from the Big Sky are pondering that very question.

Will their proud, 61-year-old conference, which thrives in the Football Championship Subdivision, be impacted by the same forces that engorged the SEC and Big Ten, decimated the Pac-12 and restructured so many others?

Realignment keeps rocking the West: Big Sky ready in case 'the Mountain West loses a bunch of members'

The realignment wave that began with thunderous news from SEC country four years ago has touched 11 conferences, altered the future for dozens of schools and shifted the balance of power within the NCAA. When will it end?

www.spokesman.com

… and did you see Idaho is ranked 10th? With 2 nationally televised games? I hope WSU is ready.

 

[Observer11]

I don't see any of the marquee Big Sky programs looking to move up to FBS level.

Montana and Montana State have quite the niche carved out and are solvent in their current format. Idaho has already been down the D-1 path and it was disastrous both financially and psychologically. Alums like winning more than they like the 'prestige' of getting clubbed by larger schools.

Maybe somebody like Sac State who, quite frankly, is a middling Big Sky program but wants to stretch its wings.

Wilner is blowing smoke like he always does. There's nothing there.

 

[PeteTheChop]

I don't see any of the marquee Big Sky programs looking to move up to FBS level.

Montana and Montana State have quite the niche carved out and are solvent in their current format. Idaho has already been down the D-1 path and it was disastrous both financially and psychologically. Alums like winning more than they like the 'prestige' of getting clubbed by larger schools.

What if the Big Sky added North Dakota State, South Dakota State, North Dakota and South Dakota go with Idaho, Montana and Montana State, then poached Wyoming from the sinking MWC?

That would be some good football

 

[Observer11]

What if the Big Sky added North Dakota State, South Dakota State, North Dakota and South Dakota go with Idaho, Montana and Montana State, then poached Wyoming from the sinking MWC?

That would be some good football

That would be a great FCS conference.

 

[95coug]

That would be a great FCS conference.

That would put them at 17, so they should pick up San Jose State too. Or Nevada. Either one fits with UC-Davis and Sac State.

 

[COUGinNCW]

The realignment wave that began with thunderous news from SEC country four years ago has touched 11 conferences, altered the future for dozens of schools and shifted the balance of power within the NCAA. When will it end?

In tiny Farmington, Utah, 20 miles north of Salt Lake City along Interstate 15, executives from the Big Sky are pondering that very question.

Will their proud, 61-year-old conference, which thrives in the Football Championship Subdivision, be impacted by the same forces that engorged the SEC and Big Ten, decimated the Pac-12 and restructured so many others?

Realignment keeps rocking the West: Big Sky ready in case 'the Mountain West loses a bunch of members'

The realignment wave that began with thunderous news from SEC country four years ago has touched 11 conferences, altered the future for dozens of schools and shifted the balance of power within the NCAA. When will it end?

www.spokesman.com

… and did you see Idaho is ranked 10th? With 2 nationally televised games? I hope WSU is ready.

I’m hoping for at least 2 more years of the Big Sky. I have a kid getting free tuition.