The WAC media convention is nearly upon us. Starting tomorrow, media members from WAC cities across the country will meet in Salt Lake City for three days of interviews, buffets, and Sugar Bowl jokes. Sounds like fun, right Will Hoenike?
We think it sounds like fun. However, being excited about a media convention is not enough to get invited to a media convention, and as such, we will be following along from the comfort of our office chair and gigantic, old Dell monitor. Too bad because we had always wanted to tour the Mormon Temple with Chase Holbrook and Luke Lippincott.
The media will be releasing their picks for players of the year and conference champion, and there will gads of interviews that will lead to gads of Honolulu Advertiser feature stories. As for the Statesman, we'll be curious to see if they marry the idea of all-day football news and blogging. There's a first time for everything.
Other things that we're excited about:
- Kellen Moore coming up in conversation entirely too often.
- Colin Kaepernick crashing the party.
- Hawaii coach Greg McMackin drinking his weight in Coke.
- The Marriott running out of continental breakfast and every column mentioning it in his WAC media days article.
- Whether or not San Jose State bothers to show up.
- Hearing Robb Akey use the word "family."
- Living vicariously through Dave Southorn's blog.
- Mormon Keno.
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MY pick to win the WAC is Boise State...I think we may share the title with Fresno this year cuz I have a bad hunch that we're gonna lose a conference game we "shouldn't" but then beat Fresno in our home finale. I'm sure the WAC media types will jump on the Bulldog bandwagon and pick them to win it all.
ReplyDeletePreseason offensive player of the year should be Ian Johnson...Jeremy Childs ,Lippencott and Kaepernick should get some votes though as well as Ryan Matthews and Brandstater.
Preseason Defensive player of the year should be Ryan Winterswyk (is my homerism showing?)
Final Conference standings:
1.Boise State
1.Fresno State
3.Nevada
4.La Tech
5.Hawaii
6.SJSU
7.NMSU
8.Idaho
9.Utah State
...and finally, what is Mormon Keno? I need to get in on that.
Mormon Keno...more info to come on Brian Murphy's blog.
ReplyDeleteWho do you think the Broncos will lose to in conference? Nevada? San Jose State? You don't see it happening on the blue do you?
You may definitely be right with the Winterswyk pick.
No...I don't see it happening on the blue and I don't think it is a lock...I just have a feeling that one of these days we aren't going to be so lucky a la San Jose in 2006 or last year's Nevada debacle. Of the away games...I think that SJSU or Nevada could snakebite us. Nevada being the more obvious choice if we don't figure out how to contain Colin "beanpole" Kaepernick.
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