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[Phat Daddy]

Several griz fans have mentioned that it wasn't so much losing to the Cats, it was losing to a sub .500 Cats team that wasn't good. I argue this....

If they replace Valparaiso and Savannah with SDSU and Kennesaw for their two FCS non-conference games, they have a good chance of being 5-6. If Cookus, the 1st team BSC quarterback plays in Satan's Lair, they are possibly 4-7.

Give us Valpo, Savannah and a Cookus-less NAU we are possibly 8-3.

Those things will never happen, but they were much more of a 4-7 team than a 7-4 team and I assume that and booster pressure forced Haslam's hand. The Cats? On the upswing.

[MSU01]

2017 MSU and 2017 UM are very similar teams. They played the exact same BSC schedule and finished with the exact same record. They both beat ISU/PSU/UNC/UND and lost to EWU/WSU, while UM beat NAU at home and MSU beat UM at home for each team's fifth win.

[VimSince03]

Several griz fans have mentioned that it wasn't so much losing to the Cats, it was losing to a sub .500 Cats team that wasn't good. I argue this....

If they replace Valparaiso and Savannah with SDSU and Kennesaw for their two FCS non-conference games, they have a good chance of being 5-6. If Cookus, the 1st team BSC quarterback plays in Satan's Lair, they are possibly 4-7.

Give us Valpo, Savannah and a Cookus-less NAU we are possibly 8-3.

Those things will never happen, but they were much more of a 4-7 team than a 7-4 team and I assume that and booster pressure forced Haslam's hand. The Cats? On the upswing.

Explained something like this to one of my Griz friends prior to the Cat/Griz game and he laughed at me. Post game....he took a different tone.