Mountain West Wire

We are back for our first basketball podcast in awhile with Jeremy Mauss being joined by Eli Boettger to talk San Jose State's hiring of Jean Prioleau to be their next head coach. Prioleau most recently was the associate head coach at Colorado and has 18 years of experience as assistant coach. We discuss other names that came up in the search for this job, and two that likely would have been a bad...

The latest preview podcast focuses on the Hawaii football team which is coming off a 7-7 year where they beat Middle Tennessee State in the bowl game in Nick Rolovich's first year on the sidelines. The Warriors finally have their quarterback position settled with Dru Brown as the returning starter. It has been a few years with no battle or injury at that position. Brown came in midway last year an...

The Colorado State Rams held its media day this week and all the key important coaches and players spoke to the media. You will hear from head coach Mike Bobo, OC Will Friend, DC Marty English, ST coach Jamie Bryan, RB Dalyn Dawkins, QB Nick Stevens, WR Michael Gallup and many more. SUPPORT THE PODCAST This episode is presented by Texture. Get three months for the cost of $10 and that includes a a...

Jeremy and Matt are back to recap everything at Mountain West media days. This includes discussing how closely the preseason awards by the media mirrored our staff predictions with Boise State projected to win the Mountain and San Diego State the West Division.  We talk about the storylines of the event ranging from Craig Thompson's lackluster speech, College Football Playoff director Bill Hancock...

In our latest podcast we expand the conversation about the #AmericanPowr6 with Collin Sherwin of The Daily Stampede who covers South Florida for SB Nation. We first get into what Mike Aresco is thinking about promoting the American Athletic Conference as a Power 6 league. Sherwin was there on hand at media days for the comments about the commissioner's vision. Next we go back and forth about how g...

In this latest show we talk Fresno State's expectations as Jeff Tedford is the new head coach for the Bulldogs. The Bulldogs are coming off a one-win season and the hope is that they win more than that last year, but there is a lot of work to do to get this Fresno State team back to the level of winning they are used to. There is talent at wide receiver position and there is hope that this offense...

In the latest short version of our podcast Jeremy discusses more on the American trying to push their agenda as the sixth power league. After reading comments from commissioner Mike Aresco it makes more sense in that he is trying to get his league to the next level by being creative.  Also, Wyoming is hoping to get ESPN College Gaeday to come to Laramie. SUPPORT THE PODCAST This episode is present...

The return of the daily-ish good morning Mountain West podcast is back!  Everyone must be thinking what the heck is up the this title. Well, it is a what the American Athletic Conference is branding themselves. They are trying to shoehorn their league into a non-existent seat at the big boy table. We give them credit since the Mountain West is not doing much, but still come on AAC. I also threw so...

Jeremy and Matt are back to talk about one of the most interesting teams in the Mountain West: the New Mexico Lobos. Their run-option attack will put a scare into any team they face this year and it does not really matter that they lost Teriyon Gipson because the next running back up should replicate his success, or be very close. New Mexico does have a senior quarterback in Lamar Jordan which cou...

Jeremy and Matt are back with a few announcements on the show. First off, all of our content is currently being hosted at patreon.com/MWCwire until our official home is finalized at CollegeFootballNews.com. This latest show previews Utah State who is coming off a year where they went 3-9 but did lose four games by a touchdown or less. There is promise with this Aggies team with those close loses....

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the Colorado State Rams and their 2017 season. After finishing 7-6 a year ago, Mike Bobo's third year in Fort Collins comes with great expectations: The Rams were among the nation's best teams in the second half of last fall, period, and are in the mix for the Group of Five's spot in a New Year's Day bowl. CSU's offense is littered with stars, including senior q...

Jeremy and Matt are back for the preview the San Diego State Aztecs who are the two-time defending conference champions. The Aztecs do lose a lot of talen on both sides of the ball including NCAA's all-time leading rusher in Donnel Pumphrey.  With the West division still not great San Diego State has a good shot at winning the division again this season. Their schedule is a bit tougher so a shot a...

In the latest installment of our way-too-early previews we bring on Adam Luckett of UnderdogDynasty.com to talk about Boise State's big game against the Troy Trorjans at Alberston's Stadium. While the Broncos are a big favorite this will not be an easy game as Troy is returning nearly everyone on offense and a decent amount of their defense. This game has the ability to be a sneaky good early seas...

Jeremy and Matt are back to preview the Nevada Wolf Pack and their 2017 season. The big ticket item surrounding this team is the new coaching staff where Jay Norvell is taking over from Brian Polian. This offense is expected to be a pass-happy attack which we are coining #AirWolf due to its tendencies.  There is a quarterback battle brewing with Ty Gangi who started the back half of last year as a...

Matt and Jeremy are back with the next installment of their 2017 season preview as we take a look at the San Jose State Spartans. San Jose State has a new head coach with Brent Brennan who is coming over from Oregon State and is making a return back to San Jose where he coached before. The key issues for the Spartans is a new quarterback and the offensive line must get better, but the positives, o...

Matt and Jeremy are back for their next season preview which is the Wyoming Cowboys. The main attraction for the Cowboys is quarterback Josh Allen who is expected to be a high NFL Draft pick, but his weapons are lacking due to multiple players off to the NFL. The Cowboys won the Mountain Division last year and to do so they will need to reload the offense that lost multiple skill players but they...

We continue our series of getting to know the Mountain West foes, and this week we chat with Robby McCombs who is the site manager for Vanquish the Foe which covers BYU on the SB Nation network. The Cougars sort of have a new quarterback in Tanner Mangum getting the starting job back after backing up Taysom Hill last year. Mangum took over for Hill in the first game of 2015 after another season-en...

We are chatting with Kaelen Jones of Houst of Sparky to get insight to the Arizona State football program. They host San Diego State this upcoming year, and time to find out what they are up to since spring football. The Sun Devils will have a new quarterback and a new defensive coordinator in Phil Bennett to maybe shore up their defense that gave up nearly 40 points per game. --- Send in a voice...

Jeremy and Matt are here to preview the upcoming 2017 Boise State football season, as chosen by our listeners, social media followers and readeres. The Broncos should be projected to contend for both their division and also the conference, but they lose a good number of pieces on both offense and defense. They do return QB Brett Rypien goes a long way to help mitigate the losses of RB Jeremy McNic...

Get caught up with all of the news from the Mountain West you may have missed. In this episode we discuss the golf trip abroad with New Mexico's AD Paul Krebs in which University funds were used and some high profile donors got a free trip to Scotland. What is worse is that Krebs tried to cover it up and discuss this as an international basketball trip and to a different country. Former SJSU linem...

Here is the Daily Hike verrsion of our podcast where we spend about 10 minutes going over the news and notes (I apologize in advance for the lack energy in this episode.) We wonder what Boise State's new uniforms will look like, Josh Allen gets compared to a Super Bowl winning quarterback and we go over the Rimington Watch list all while poking a little fun at it. WAYS TO SUPPORT THE SHOW. Help us...

In our latest instalment of previewing non-conference foes we bring on Shane Roberts from BlockU.com to talk about University of Utah as they host San Jose State this year. This is the second year of the series and last year it was the Utes defense that was sack crazy against the Spartans offensive line. There are a few questions with Utah as in who will be their main running back, will an Alabama...

Jeremy and Matt are back for another football show and this week is the final show before we start doing our weekly team previews. This go around we want the listeners of the show to let us know who we should preview each week. Tag us on twitter @mwcconnection with #mwpod and let us know where to start. This show we go through the week-by-week schedule to plan out our ultimate road trip for the up...

In our latest preview of non-conference foes we speak with Erik Evans of Roll Bama Roll to get caught up with Alabama football who host Fresno State and Colorado State this upcoming season. We discuss the Alabama offense that has had a lot of changes since late last year with their offensive coordinator that now features former New Mexico head coach Mike Locksley and Brian Doball as co-offensive c...

The Wyoming Cowboys hype train is in full force regarding quarterback Josh Allen. Every publication known to man, including us, are writing about how Allen is the next big thing in the NFL. Maybe he is, or maybe he is not. We go through the news and notes from what others are saying about Allen which includes Johnny Manziel training with Allen, scouts saying he is worthy of the first-round pick an...