Comments on: Big Sky Cuts Costs

By: Willmott

Willmott — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:11:04 +0000

The Big Sky has been getting an at-large into the 1-AA playoffs for as long as I can remember. They're just at a disadvantage because of their physical location, which, because of bracketing principles, will almost always mean that two Big Sky teams will meet early in the tournament to eliminate long flights.

But yeah, the idea that the Big Sky is non-competitive at the FCS football level is absurd.

By: TLHKnight

TLHKnight — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:14:03 +0000

I beg your pardon, Montana is never going to win at the 1-AA level? I’ll tell that to their national championship teams in 1995 and 2001; or 1984 Montana State or 1981 Idaho State. The Big Sky had two teams in the playoffs last year with Montana and Weber State. Weber won their first round game on the road against Cal Poly and were eliminated by Montana, while Montana went on to play for the national championship. The idea that the Big Sky isn’t competitive is just total nonsense.

By: Nathan Brice

Nathan Brice — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:38:25 +0000

A better move for the Big Sky schools would be to drop football because those schools will never win on a regular basis at the AFKA 1-AA level and they would be better served to spend the leftovers on basketball because they don’t sponsor baseball and only one team in the Big Sky actually plays baseball, Northern Colorado.