The Bobcat Nation

Sounds like a solid choice for them:

http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/5539572

LTown Cat wrote:Sounds like a solid choice for them:

http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/5539572

I think it will be a solid choice down the line, but it happening so late it will kill them for next year. The thing that hurt them was I think they were only offering about 60% of the $$$$$$$$ what Montana State and Montana offer their head coach. And we are considered the bottom of the barrel D-1 salary wise.

Hopefully it works out in the long run. We need the Big Sky's RPI to go up.

LTown Cat wrote:Hopefully it works out in the long run. We need the Big Sky's RPI to go up.

Agreed, it would be nice to get back to the RPI's the Conference had when we had Idaho, Boise and Nevada in the conference.

mslacat wrote:

LTown Cat wrote:Hopefully it works out in the long run. We need the Big Sky's RPI to go up.

Agreed, it would be nice to get back to the RPI's the Conference had when we had Idaho, Boise and Nevada in the conference.

Mslacat was the conference really better back then? I started following Big Sky basketball in the mid '80's, so I remember Idaho, Boise and Nevada. I also remember that the Big Sky had more than it's fair share of weak sisters back then. NAU, EWU, and ISU were really bad programs. They consistently racked up 20 loss seasons. But even Big Sky powers like Idaho and Weber St had several really bad years in the 80's. As I recall, the conference had 2 or 3 horrible teams every year. Was the league really better when it had so many cupcakes?

NAU and EWU are LIGHT YEARS ahead of where they used to be. Even ISU is much more competative now. The last few years, there hasn't been anybody in the league that I consider a pushover. This year the Big Sky was 17th in RPI rating. So you may recall the good old days and think things have gone sour, but I enjoy the hell out of Big Sky basketball now and think things are pretty good now.

twentythreeOh4 wrote:

mslacat wrote:

LTown Cat wrote:Hopefully it works out in the long run. We need the Big Sky's RPI to go up.

Agreed, it would be nice to get back to the RPI's the Conference had when we had Idaho, Boise and Nevada in the conference.

Mslacat was the conference really better back then? I started following Big Sky basketball in the mid '80's, so I remember Idaho, Boise and Nevada. I also remember that the Big Sky had more than it's fair share of weak sisters back then. NAU, EWU, and ISU were really bad programs. They consistently racked up 20 loss seasons. But even Big Sky powers like Idaho and Weber St had several really bad years in the 80's. As I recall, the conference had 2 or 3 horrible teams every year. Was the league really better when it had so many cupcakes?

NAU and EWU are LIGHT YEARS ahead of where they used to be. Even ISU is much more competative now. The last few years, there hasn't been anybody in the league that I consider a pushover. This year the Big Sky was 17th in RPI rating. So you may recall the good old days and think things have gone sour, but I enjoy the hell out of Big Sky basketball now and think things are pretty good now.

Our Montana State Bobcats won the All College Tournament in the late 60s (and didn't make the tournament because they only took one team per conference back then), Weber consistently made it to the final 16, ISU made the elite 8 (although that was before it was called the elite 8 and Idaho spent most of 81 through 83 ranked in the top ten. Those Weber teams with Willie Sojounoner were something to watch. There may be a corelation to the continual decline of Big Sky basketball from about the time you started watching--just kidding

And there was even a school that Jud Heathcoate coached when he was between jobs in WAZZU and Michigan State that won a game in the tournament that played UCLA when UCLA was the NCAA tournament close. Had a pretty tall Canadian center, Don Wetzel from Cut Bank, some girl's coach and Glendive's coach from the big town of Outlook on those teams. Few other Montana kids that couldn't do much besides shoot and play defense, pound the boards, play team basketball...kind of like what Krysko has that same team doing now.