First all, if you wrote all that. Congrats, as it sure must of took alot of time and research.
Now as for the debate of MWC vs. BE. Outside of Utah.....the MWC is weak. If they add Fresno State and Boise State. Good for them. Boise wont have 11 win seasons playing in a tougher division, same as Fresno State.
Lets compare the current Big East against the Future MWC with Fresno and Boise. Going top to bottom, of how teams are believed to be right now
MWC
1. Utah -- No more Alex Smith, No more Urban Meyer...lets see them do it again before we declare them better than BE best.
2. BOISE STATE -- Insane Passing Offense, much like TTU, always a threat with that scheme. Good talent
3. FRESNO STATE -- Good overall program. Skills at needed positions. Very good QB with Pinegar.
4. Colorado State -- Usual top MWC team, few rough years. Should be better this year with Holland having more experience.
5. TCU -- ALot of talent returning. Always competitive, should be good MWC team.
6. BYU -- New coaching staff, new hope. Good recruiting class each year should be competitive.
7. San Diego State -- Young program last year, should be better this year. Middle of the road MWC team.
8. Wyoming -- Starting to come around. Very talented offense, Defense lost a few SR's, returns a good amount though. Middle MWC.
9. New Mexico -- Uber talented RB in Moore and Ferguson. Good defense, looses some key players. Middle MWC team.
10. Air Force -- Usually tough team. Going to have a few rough years, with more tough games to play. who knows, always .500+
11. UNLV -- Talented team. Just cant seem to get it together. Lost QB Nantkes, WR Johnson. Cellar of MWC.
BE
1. Louisville - Great team, program moving up. Top young QB in Brohm, RB in Bush...Tough Defense, could be close to another 10+ win
2. Pittsburgh - Top team last season. Good QB in Palko, RB in Walker, WR in Lee. Very good Defense, most return. poss. 9+ win team
3. West Virginia - Always competitive team. Great running game, and tough defense. New QB and WR's. Running and D will get 8+
4. Syracuse - New coaches, new hope. Good running game, young QB's need to step up. Tough road sched. Good D and RB will get 7
5. Rutgers - Most talented RU team in years. If consistant, Offense alone could get them close to 8 wins, inconsistant, expect 6 or 7
6. Cincy - Lost Alot of there starters on both sides of ball. Recruiting has been solid, transition year, expect anywhere from 4-7 wins
7. Uconn - No Orlovsky. Caulley and Brockington are studs. Good WR's, talented D, good coaching. WIth some luck 6+ wins is poss.
8. USF -- Possibly best RB in league with Hall. QB needs to step up (lot of talent recruits). Young program, give em a few years. 3-5
Now. It seems like the MWC has better teams. But not really. Your juding the MWC on three teams that have had success in lower conferences. Boise state, is on an all time high right now. Fresno State is coming down off of the first overall pick in David Carr. TCU has been succesful in quite a few leagues now. The Big East is replacing Miami, VT and BC. It wouldnt matter who we replaced them with, its still a tough loss. Louisville is a GREAT addition to the BE right away. They are better than Boise State, Fresno and TCU. Cincy is coming off a Bowl Victory, and just because they had a few down years everyone is overlooking them. USF is in the middle of a recruiting hotbed and in a few years could be an outstanding program.
right now id say we can beat every member of the MWC starting at the top.
Louisville could beat Utah. - THis year definitley, last year...wish it wouldve happened Smith vs Lefors and Brohm. UL wouldve won.
Pitt could beat Boise state. - Itd be very tough, but Pitt can do it, if they can get to Zabransky. BSU offense is very tough.
WVU can beat Fresno state. - Fresno is a good team. Nothing better nothing worse. Our D could stop them. they cant stop our RB's.
Syracuse can beat Colorado State - pretty similar teams. Inconsistant QB play. Syracuse wins with more talent and Defense.
Rutgers is about even with TCU right now. Previous would give TCU advantage. I think if they played this year Rutgers wins.
Cincy can beat BYU - Tough game, real tough game but Cincy has alot of talent, just need experience. New QB will hurt but BYU is not even close to unbeatable
UConn can take SDSU - Uconn is growing very quickly into a good football program. Caulley and brockington eat up SDSU after losing almost all of there top Defensive players.
USF can beat Wyoming. - As much as i like to see Wyoming starting to get back to where they once were as a program, i think USF has more talent. Talent wins games. USF CAN beat Wyoming.
Im not saying that would happen. But every BE team is talented enough to beat Every MWC team, if you dont think so, you are underestimating our conference big time.
Its very easy to jump on the MWC bandwagon now that they can get Boise and Fresno state. Lets see what our new additions do before we declare the MWC superior. Utah beating Pitt last year proves one thing. Urban Meyer is a mastermind. He did it with Josh Harris, he had Alex Smith there. Florida is gonna be nasty this year.
Pitt would kill Utah this year with no Smith and Meyer. Utah had there all time greatest QB and coach together at once. They will come down to earth hard this year.
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