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All Things Denver, XXVIII

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vizoroo said:
videos of the drills and interviews
http://www.denverpioneers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=18600&ATCLID=204979534

DU's basketball team going to Spain next week. 10 extra days of practice before the trip. Wonder if Joe Scott will look for the next Pau Gassol?
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This DU hoops team could be very good this year. They are loaded with seniors and juniors instead of frosh and sophs. Two of the teams on the six game Spanish tour are in the top Spanish league and three are second division pro teams from Spain and the final one is a top amateur team from Spain. All in all, this is a great experience for the Pios.
 
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Pioneer fans may wish to watch the fallout of conference shifting going on in the WAC and MWC. In the last few days, BYU left the MWC in football for independent staus, and put its other sports into the WAC. Meanwhile, Fresno State and Nevada (Reno) left the WAC in all sports for the MWC to replace BYU. Essentially, the WAC now needs a school or more schools to replace their losses, and DU may in the consideration mix as a non-football member.
 
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Today is 08/19/10.
There are 50 days until DU's next game.


This is based upon 8 October for the start of the regular season
44 days until the first exhibition.
 
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Puck Swami said:
Pioneer fans may wish to watch the fallout of conference shifting going on in the WAC and MWC. In the last few days, BYU left the MWC in football for independent staus, and put its other sports into the WAC. Meanwhile, Fresno State and Nevada (Reno) left the WAC in all sports for the MWC to replace BYU. Essentially, the WAC now needs a school or more schools to replace their losses, and DU may in the consideration mix as a non-football member.
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Is joining the WAC any better than the Sunbelt? Maybe a little, but not as much as you may think. The WAC has been decimated.

BYU would draw well in Denver. Hawaii is a fun trip. Cheaper travel is probably the big benefit. Could BYU add Lax or hockey?

DU is always going to be at risk of getting booted from the WAC or the conference breaking up. If the "BYU experiment" fails, the WAC is dead. What BYU has proven for the thousandth time this year. Football is everything and all other sports are irrelevant.

New WAC:
BYU
Hawaii
Idaho
La. Tech
NM State
San Jose State
Utah State

Sunbelt
North Texas
AR. State
DU
New Orleans
LA. Lafayette
LA. Monroe
Troy
Middle TN.
Western KY
FL. Atlantic
S. Alabama
FL. Intl. Uni.
 
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For the record BYU has not officailly decided anything at the present moment. They are still a member of the MWC. Both Nevada(Reno) and Fresno State accepted the MWC offer and are trying to get out of the 5 million dollar buyout that they agreed to verbally after Boise State left earlier this year.

At this point the MWC will not give BYU any special status/ perks to stay with the conference. I think with the addition of Nevada and Fresno it increased the odds of BYU staying. So it is my oppinion at this moment it's a 50/50 shot of them leaving.
 
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dggoddard said:
Is joining the WAC any better than the Sunbelt? Maybe a little, but not as much as you may think. The WAC has been decimated.

BYU would draw well in Denver. Hawaii is a fun trip. Cheaper travel is probably the big benefit. Could BYU add Lax or hockey?

DU is always going to be at risk of getting booted from the WAC or the conference breaking up. If the "BYU experiment" fails, the WAC is dead. What BYU has proven for the thousandth time this year. Football is everything and all other sports are irrelevant.

New WAC:
BYU
Hawaii
Idaho
La. Tech
NM State
San Jose State
Utah State

Sunbelt
North Texas
AR. State
DU
New Orleans
LA. Lafayette
LA. Monroe
Troy
Middle TN.
Western KY
FL. Atlantic
S. Alabama
FL. Intl. Uni.
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DU will always be in a tough spot without football and I accept that. I don't see anyone that's going to write a $200 million -$300 million check to start football here, and even if they did, if CU and CSU can't be competitive in football, how could DU be relevant?

We are nationally relevant in most of the sports we do play, and joining the WAC would at least mean playing more schools with at least some geographic relevance in this market (unlike the Sun Belt), and could lead to better fan support with more regional rivalries.
 
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DU Assitant Steve Miller interviewed for the Head Coach job in Green Bay (USHL).

http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_15829480

Steve doesn't want to be an assistant coach forever - he's certainly paid his dues, and he's from Wisconsin.

If he gets the job, it will be interesting to see who DU will hire to replace him.
 
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Puck Swami said:
DU Assitant Steve Miller interviewed for the Head Coach job in Green Bay (USHL).

http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_15829480

Steve doesn't want to be an assistant coach forever - he's certainly paid his dues, and he's from Wisconsin.

If he gets the job, it will be interesting to see who DU will hire to replace him.
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The article says that Miller is a finalist, along with former CC captain Eric Rud, now an assistant coach at St. Cloud. How could Miller NOT get the job offer? Rud's qualifications don't even come close to Miller's.

Though I wonder if the USHL team can match what Miller is making at DU. I'm sure Gwoz was able to negotiate a very healthy salary for Miller.
 
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Pablo said:
The article says that Miller is a finalist, along with former CC captain Eric Rud, now an assistant coach at St. Cloud. How could Miller NOT get the job offer? Rud's qualifications don't even come close to Miller's.

Though I wonder if the USHL team can match what Miller is making at DU. I'm sure Gwoz was able to negotiate a very healthy salary for Miller.
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Miller is likely making over $100K at DU, and I would imagine the Green Bay job is in that range.
 
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Puck Swami said:
DU Assitant Steve Miller interviewed for the Head Coach job in Green Bay (USHL).

http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_15829480

Steve doesn't want to be an assistant coach forever - he's certainly paid his dues, and he's from Wisconsin.

If he gets the job, it will be interesting to see who DU will hire to replace him.
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Interesting considering he was just elevated to Associate Head Coach at DU after being an Assistant Head Coach. He and Gwoz have been together a long time.
 
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It's interesting, the article DG put on the blog about the CC players being busted for underage drinking and facing pending legal charges is an example of what's know as: burying the lead.

The lead, of course, is the time table for the legal matters for the two players and who they are, where they were busted, when and under what circumstances.

The philosophical vomit about the temptations of being under 21 plus McCulloch's totally irrelevant observations about what CC does to prevent this behavior belongs much further down in the story.

Obviously written by a house mouse.

Plus, the nights must be long and lonely in the springs, that babe in the picture looks like she'd make a freight train take a dirt road! Maybe she's a good dancer.
 
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Old Pio said:
It's interesting, the article DG put on the blog about the CC players being busted for underage drinking and facing pending legal charges is an example of what's know as: burying the lead.

The lead, of course, is the time table for the legal matters for the two players and who they are, where they were busted, when and under what circumstances.

The philosophical vomit about the temptations of being under 21 plus McCulloch's totally irrelevant observations about what CC does to prevent this behavior belongs much further down in the story.

Obviously written by a house mouse.

Plus, the nights must be long and lonely in the springs, that babe in the picture looks like she'd make a freight train take a dirt road! Maybe she's a good dancer.
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~ Stay classy Colorado Springs
 
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Today is 08/20/10.
There are 49 days until DU's next game.


This is based upon 8 October for the start of the regular season
43 days until the first exhibition.
 
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With all the good teams leaving the WAC and their only way to expand is to pull teams from the FCS(1-AA) they may become the official cream puff conference in football.

Replacing the Sun Belt conference:eek:
 
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I am sure that DU AD Peg Bradley Doppes was on speed dial to WAC commish Karl Benson as soon as the recent WAC upheaval became known, and probably before it happened.

Back in June, Denver was "under consideration" by the WAC for 2012, probably on the assumption that La. Tech would leave by then, but now those goalposts have moved up.

If I am the WAC, taking on a now-established, well-funded and top-notch D-I non-football program like DU right in the middle of their footprint makes some sense as hedge against further erosion.

But DU may also not want to jump too quickly here. The WAC is now on much shakier ground, and other schools could leave, making it worse.

Also if BYU decides to go to the WCC with their other non-football sports, Denver would make a very logical travel partner addition to the WCC, since we are only a 40 minute flight from Utah. Denver fits the WCC profile in terms of size and private status, and it's where the Pios wanted to be before the WCC turned them down for distance reasons in 1999. Denver is further along and also better resourced and has better academics than Seattle or Pacific, the two other schools under WCC consideration.
 
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