Originally Posted by
BhadDawg
After bringing up The WAC, I got to reminiscing, I do miss a lot of those games like Fresno, Hawaii, and Boise. Those teams were not the little sisters of the poor, and most all of them has went on to a better conference.
Remember Pat Hill, he was kind of a nasty guy, but they had attendance and support and were in the national spotlight a lot. Pat Hill never won a WAC championship outright that I know of, only shared in it one year. Their Motto Anybody, anywhere, anytime (actually ours first) got them a lot of recognition and BCS games. According to WIKI, Pat Hill was 44-19 in the WAC, won 17 games against BCS teams and was 4-7 in bowl games, thats 11 bowl games.
Fresno had exciting football, Most everyone in the WAC had exciting football, just not good locations for TECH. My point being, they had a crazy ass coach who could not win his conference but people still came to see his teams, Hill was wide open and going for broke a lot of times, and just as likely to lose as he was to win, but they still came.
Fresno was a nobody university at one time, and look what they did. (I know, different part of the country and larger population, but they still energized the valley)