What happened to the MW in basketball? Is it as simple as the traditional heavyweights made poor hires?, i.e. New Mexico with Neal, UNLV with Rice. Is the talent level down across the board? Are too many teams always in rebuild mode rather than reload mode. Losing Utah and BYU hurt but the MW has been strong since then. For example, in 2013 the MW was third in conference RPI with 6 teams in the top 50 in RPI. At one time I think it had the highest conference RPI. Is the MW so low because MW teams get no RPI bump playing each other because of poor team RPIs? Has it taken too long for newer teams (Fresno State, Nevada, SJSU) too long to build solid programs?
While looking for information online I came across this nugget to chew on from a UW press release: in 2005 Utah and Wyoming were the two winningest programs in the six year history of the MW.
What about football? I think it is easy to point to three things: the continual separation of P5 conferences from the MW, conference realignment, and poor coaching hires across the board.
What say you?
While looking for information online I came across this nugget to chew on from a UW press release: in 2005 Utah and Wyoming were the two winningest programs in the six year history of the MW.
What about football? I think it is easy to point to three things: the continual separation of P5 conferences from the MW, conference realignment, and poor coaching hires across the board.
What say you?
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