Mountain West Wire

Boise State continues spring football and the latest players to speak to the media this week were RB Ryan Wolpin, DE Chase Hatada and NT Sonatane Lui. The Broncos are still early in spring so competitions and teaching are in full swing, and a lot more will be known once they get to put on the pads. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mwwire/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.f...

The third-seeded Boise State Broncos fell to rival San Diego State in the Mountain West quarterfinals and ended their season, for now. The Broncos have a good shot of going to the NIT but that will not be official until Sunday night. The Broncos head coach Leon Rice and Nick Duncan were very emotional after the loss to the Aztecs. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mwwire/message Suppo...

Never count out San Diego State when it comes to the Mountain West tournament. The Aztecs moved onto their 10th straight conference tournament semifinals after they upset Boise State in the quarterfinals. San Diego State struggled in their first half against UNLV but since then they have played extremely well. Head coach Steve Fisher and players discussed the win over Boise State and also their se...

Jeremy and Matt are back to talk actual football news as we discuss the NFL Combine as well as start to talk about spring football. There was a ton of news in spring we will discuss more next week so that we keep the shows about one hour. In the combine news, we try to decide which Mountain West back will have the best NFL career and/or get selected first. Jeremy eats some crow about Jalen Robinet...

Jeremy and Eli are back to preview the Mountain West tournament. We dive into the bracket and make predictions on what team is hot at the right time (hint: only Nevada) and what teams could cause an upset. The tournament starts late morning on the West Coast with an intriguing opening round game between San Jose State and Utah State, but do not expect the winner go move on farther than that in the...

Boise State conducted its first spring football practice and players and coaches spoke to the media afterwards. Head coach Bryan Harsin discusses the offseason and what he expects to accomplish this spring. Players joining Harsin are junior-to-be quarterback Brett Rypien and defensive tackle David Moa. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mwwire/message Support this podcast: https://anch...

Jeremy and Eli are back for the final regular season baskeball show. The duo focus a lot on the winner-take-all conference title game on Saturday that features Colorado State at Nevada which also happens to be their first and only matchup of the year -- that is due to unbalanced scheduling with 11 Mountain West teams. We both make the same pick as to who will win the conference title and yes we re...

This week's edition of the Mountain West podcast has nothing to do with sports. In this episode we have Jeremy, Matt, Eli and Brandon joining the show. With this being the offseason for football we decided to have some fun and do a non-sports show based on MarchFadness and this year's bracket is 1990s one-hit wonders. We spend the hour breaking down our favorite songs, making fun of terrible one's...

Jeremy and Eli are back to talk some Mountain West and it sort of breaks out into the future of Nevada head coach Eric Musselman with a few options on what he might do if the Wolf Pack continue to have success. As for on the court items, Colorado State keeps on surprising us and winning and at some point we should not be surprised any more with their recent winning streak. The Rams are in line for...

UNLV host Nevada and at the halftime the Rebels honred the 1986-87 Final Four team, but the current Rebels squad had a tough game against the Wolf Pack and lost 94-58. Rebels head coach Marvin Menzies spoke to the media after the loss and once again did not hold back about this current Rebels team and after the game said these players have a “lack of understanding of what the UNLV brand is." --- S...

Boise State defeated San Jose State on Saturday, 85-78, and currently sit one game behind Nevada and Colorado State for first place in the conference title with two games left. That is what Broncos head coach Leon Rice is focusing on after the win over the Spartans saying, "We're still trying to play for a title." Might be tough to win the title with so few chances left but Boise State has a favor...

San Diego State starts spring football on Monday and head coach Rocky Long had a press conference to discuss what is going on with the team that is losing Donnell Pumphrey and other key players who are likely off to the NFL. One nugget that Long said was that starting quarterback Christian Chapman is not going to participate in spring football due to thumb surgery. --- Send in a voice message: htt...

Jeremy is back joining Matt to discuss the offseason news in college football with the main topic being about if a Group of Five only playoff is a good idea. We dive into some NFL Draft talk and stray news in the league, but then we dive deep into the one-hit wonder bracket from March Fadness and find the region of death within these 90s songs that always got stuck in your head. --- Send in a voic...

Jeremy and Eli are back for another game of "Who is in first place in the Mountain West." This week it is Colorado State who leads the conference but there is also a lot of bad news about their head coach Larry Eustachy. This happened a few years ago and reportedly has improved his coaching style since then, but it is not a good look for the Colorado State basketball team. We discuss how BracketMa...

We start the show off discussing the rise and improvement of San Jose State basketball which has been huge as they have as many conference wins this year as they have in the prior three. We jump into some prior games, like the quadruaple overtime game Wednesday night between Fresno State and Wyoming. Then we look ahead to some interesting matchups next week including the Sunday game between Nevada...

The San Jose State Spartans made a stop in WisePies Arena to face the New Mexico Lobos and left with a 78-68 win Saturday. Lobos head coach Craig Neal what went down in the home loss from Saturday, but for starters not having Tim Williams in the lineup hurt this New Mexico team quite a bit tonight. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mwwire/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.f...

National Signing Day wrapped up on Wednesday and San Diego State earned the the third best class within the Mountain West, per 247Sports composite rankings. The Aztecs were very close behind Colorado State and edged the out out by more than a point and Boise State ran away from it with 166.53 total points which was 17 more than each the Rams and Aztecs. San Diego State ended up with 14 athletes ra...

Matthew Kenerly flies solo for a roundup of Mountain West news, recapping the Senior Bowl and looking forward to National Signing Day on Wednesday. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mwwire/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mwwire/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Boise State stayed within the conference to hire its next wide receivers coach by bringing in former Fresno State offensive coordinator Eric Kiesau. While the Bulldogs offense was not great this past year the one area that was mildly successful was the wide receiving group for the Bulldogs. Kiesau will have his work cut out for him as Boise State is losing one of their best wide receivers in schoo...

Jeremy and Eli are back for another Mountain West hoops podcast and we begin the show discussing the incident that happened between Colorado State and New Mexico. Luckily for us, it has been nearly a week and a lot of information came out and we can now give our thoughts on what happened now that more details, even though not completely, have been presented. We dive into Boise State's recent strug...

Jeremy and Matt are back to keep talking Mountain West football and attempt to makeit through the offseason together. We discuss the post season bowl games and what players may break out and impress draft stock. We also find out the new nickname for Nevada passing attack that is being run by Matt Mumme, and it is not the Air Raid. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mwwire/message Suppo...

Rocky Long has done a great job with San Diego State by winnning back-to-back Mountain West titles and helped the football team be ranked for the first time in over two decades. The Aztecs finished the season 25th in both polls and that success has landed Long a five-year extension through 2021. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mwwire/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/m...

Mountian West basketball has plenty of talent but the wins are lacking among the conferene. That is why this league is all but assured to be a single bid team -- I know a broken record. Well, at this early point in the season the conference is led by Boise State at 4-0 and the Broncos are pulling away from the rest of the league. That all could change very quickly in this league as road victories...

Jeremy and Matt are back to look back at the 2016 football season and attempt to recall how bad most of their picks were from the preseason. We discuss some news about Wyoming QB Josh Allen and the NFL Draft but then during the show it is reported he decided to come back, so you can ignore the first 15 or so minutes. We also look ahead to 2017 with a few way-too-early predictions. Matt West: San D...

Fresno State head coach Jeff Tedford held a press conference to discuss the progress of filling out the rest of his football staff. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mwwire/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mwwire/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices