Mountain West Wire

We are attempting a new thing with our podcast feed and combining it with our Daily Hike feature on our website, MWCConnection.com. The goal is to post a 10-15 minute podcast to disucss the links put within the weekday post and go over a few more in detail.

This edition the topic is can a non-power college football team have a run like Gonzaga did this year in basketball, will Las Vegas be a college football town and will the Mountain West be along for the ride, plus a quick loo at the firest two previous in Bill C.'s Mountain West previews of Nevada and Fresno State.

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Boise State held a scrimmage over the weekend and are one week closer to wrapping up spring practices. Get the latest update from various players and coaches. 

Here is the order they appear in this latest podcast.

OC - Zak Hill

RB - Ryan Wolpin

CB - Tyler Horton

DC, Andy Avalos

TE - Jake Roh

CB - Reid Harrisoin-Ducros

LB - Sam Whitney

TE/ST Coach - Kent Riddle

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The New Mexico Lobos let go of Craig Neal late on March 31 and now are in search of a new head coach. Athletic director Paul Krebs has moved quickly and is meeting with coaches at the Final Four, and interviewing at least former Lobo assistant Joe Dooley.

The financials from New Mexico are not good and they may have to go bargain hunting to find their next head coach, and it doesn't help that the Mountain West had another down year by sending just one team to the NCAA Tournament.

The Lobos job is attractive enough to get some decent names and if the new coach can retain the four players who announced they are leaving to stay then New Mexico would be one of the better teams in the Mountain West next year.

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Jeremy and Matt give a spring football update on Utah State, Colorado State, Fresno State and Nevada. The two also discuss the Oakland Raiders moving to Las Vegas with Chris Hondros now of Forgotten5.com. We dive into how that move will help the UNLV football program and a look at the Mountain West bowl scenarios with the new billion-dollar stadium. 

Find out if Chris is #TeamTacos or #TeamBacon.

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In our latest episode, Jeremy and Matt take a look at what former football alumni they'd like to have back on campus to help out the current team. This all started because San Diego State chose to bring back former quarterback Ryan Lindley came to help out during spring football since the Aztecs were low on quarterbacks with Christian Chapman still recovering from thumb surgery.

Also, we go non-sports to talk bacon vs.tacos, go vote at baconvstacos.com.

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The Nevada Wolf Pack were blessed with a gift when Eric Musselman decided to withdraw his name from consideration for the Cal head coaching job. To say this is big news for the Wolf Pack, and the Mountain West, is an understatement. The league needs to keep quality coaches to get out of the rut of sending just one team to the NCAA Tournament.

For Nevada, this will help them stay in the top part of the Mountain West as long as Musselman is their head coach, and it could convince Cameron Oliver to return to school for another year instead of testing his worth in the NBA Draft as he did last year.

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Jeremy and Matt discuss future TV options within the Mountain West and specifically how streaming games could work. We discuss the league having its own network and be accessed for a small monthly fee of say $10 per month, hooking up with Amazon Prime which really wants to broadcast live sports, Twitter, Hulu or Netflix.

Streaming games has a lot of issues and for the Mountain West there are two big one’s in access to the games and also can the league make enough money to make it worth the fairly drastic change.

One reason there is talk of adjusting the TV package is to avoid the 10 p.m. ET and later kick offs and tip offs in football and basketball. By streaming and controlling more of the rights to games that would not be an issue.

There are plenty of ideas on the topic, and to be honest this show could be triple the length (no one wants that) to discuss ideas.

Oh... we start the show talking food.

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Iowa State and Nevada meet up Thursday night in their NCAA tournament game (10 p.m. ET on truTV). The day prior to the game players and coaches from each team talk to the media about this matchup. This was earlier in the day and before the Cal and Washington jobs opened up so there was no questions directed toward Wolf Pack head coach Eric Musselman about the open positoins.

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The latest basketball version of the podcast is back with Jeremy and Eli being joined by Brandon who covers Nevada for the website. We dive deep into the game and look at the matchup from nealry every angle. The big topic at hand is the size advantage that Nevada has over Iowa State and how that is a key if the Wolf Pack are going to win.

Expect this game to be high-scoring and a lot of three-point shots and there is a good chance for a few highlight dunks betwen Nevada's Cameron Oliver and Iowa State Deonte Burton's. 

All three are unanimous in their pick for this game, plus we all discuss our overall brackets.

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Jeremy and Eli are back to recap the Mountai West tournament and then we dive into the NCAA's and some NIT talk as well. For those under a rock, Nevada earned a 12 seed into the NCAA tournament and will face fifth seeded Iowa State from the Big 12.

We will breakdown this game in more detail on our next show but we discuss a few of the big picture topcis of the game. The most important topic that we discuss is how to pronounce Nevada as that is apparently a thing in Iowa as there is a town in that state named Nevada but said the incorrect way.

Also, thanks to the folks at Wide Right and Natty Lite for creating an amazingly funny post about the Nevada Cubs which is a high school team in Iowa and breakdown that team as their NCAA opponent.

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