Utah Tech's Move To Big Sky: What It Means For The Team

Shower Thought - June 26, 2025

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In the era of conference realignment in college football there's been some big leaps.

When the Big Ten picked up Rutgers in 2014 that was nuts.

Rutgers was 6-7 the year before in the American Conference.

They've gone 0-9 three times in BIG 10 play.

It was just a huge jump going from playing Temple and UConn and South Florida to playing Michigan, Penn State and Ohio State.

But the Big Ten wanted Rutgers because it gives them the New York market. Whatever that means.

Utah Tech is Moving to the Big Sky

Yesterday, Utah Tech announced it will be joining the Big Sky!

An incredible announcement and it's best possible landing spot for Utah Tech football and basketball.

But it's going to be a challenge like Rutgers going from the American to the Big Ten.

The Big Sky had five teams in the FCS playoffs last year.

They've had a team in the national championship game three of the last four years.

The Walter Payton Award winner the FCS heisman last year was out of the Big Sky! Touchdown Tommy!

It's a great conference and it's gonna be hard not to be a doormat for a while but at least you're in the big time.

Heck Rutgers won four conference games last year in year 11 of being in the Big 10.

Utah Tech can be quicker than that.

Shower Thought - June 25, 2025

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Today's June 25th.

On June 25th 1998, Mark McGwire had already hit 35 home runs! Well on his way to break Roger Maris 61 home run record, and everybody was watching.

When the Cubs played the Cardinals on September 7th, ESPN got a 9.5 Nielsen rating which was about 20 million people which is more than game 7 of the NBA Finals just got.

Bud Selig had his home run chase that helped save the MLB after the '94 strike. Having a historic chase is big.

That's why the NBA flourished from about 2005 to 2019. It upped its per year TV revenue from $700 million a year in the early 2000's to $2.5 billion a year now. The NBA had a chase going!

Michael Jordan won 6 championships in the 90s. He's the greatest ever. Six years after Jordan retires, here comes a new guy, the chosen one, who's gonna chase him for 20 years.

The MLB has a home run chase in 98 that lasted one season. The NBA has had LeBron chasing Jordan's for 20 years!

It was a ratings bonanza for the NBA, for ESPN and Fox that debated it every morning. Who's the GOAT??

But the chase has ended. And the NBA's ratings have been falling since COVID. They're in desperate need of another chaser. It's not Anthony Edwards, it's not Luka, and I don't think it's SGA.

Will the new Jordan chaser be drafted #1 tonight?

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