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Nike unveiled their new line of Pro Combat uniforms today in NYC.  TCU's are similar to last year but have been slightly modified for this years theme "'Til Hell Freezes" which is inspired by a quote made famous by TCU's all-time winningest coach, Leo R. "Dutch" Meyer. 

Fight 'em 'til hell freezes over, then fight 'em on the ice!

 The Horned Frogs will wear this uniforms this weekend when they take on the Oregon State Beavers in the Cowboy's Classic.

This is now 2 tables showing everything going on in the MWC this week. I had to split the normal table because there was so much going on this week:

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Drew Brees - The best Fantasy QB. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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Today at 5:00 P.M. PT is the draft for our NFL Fantasy Football League and this will be the last post for this league. The league will be reduced to however many teams are in the league at 4:00 P.M. PT tonight.

Edit: There are now 5 spots remaining in the league.

Football is back on September 2nd. Fantasy Football is already drafting on so many sites. Mountain West Connection is having its first Fantasy Football league and you're allowed to join. We are using Flea Flicker as our site to run the game. Anyone from the Mountain West Connection Community can join.This is a free fantasy football league. Draft time is August 22nd at 5:00 P.M. PT. Please, If you're not going to be available at draft time, don't sign up. To join, just click on this link and follow the instructions below:


1. Click on a "Claim This Spot" link in any of the divisions.

2. Next, create a free Flea Flicker account.

3. Once you have created your account, type in what you want your team name to be, and type in the league password. The league password is sbnation

After that you will have joined. You can look around the league to see what the rules are.

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Mark Ingram - The best fantasy RB.(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Tomorrow at 9:00 P.M. PT is the draft for our College Fantasy Football League and this will be the last post for that league. The league will be reduced to however many teams are in the league at 9:00 A.M. tomorrow morning.

We have a new league for a new type of fantasy game I was not aware of, College Fantasy Football. We now have a league for playing with all FBS Teams with Athlon Sports free online program. Just like the other league, anyone from the Mountain West Connection community can join. Draft time is August 21st at 8:59 P.M. PT. I know that seems really late, but for whatever reason I could not change the draft time. If you're not going to be available at draft time, don't sign up. To join, just click on this link and follow the instructions below:

1. Scroll down to the section where it says join a league and click on accept an invitation.

2. Type in the league access code which is: sbnation

3. Create your info the way you want it, your fantasy team name, your password, name e-mail address, time zone and favorite team. Then click on create team.

4. Next, scroll all the way down to the checkout bottom at the bottom of the page and click on it. Don't worry, you won't be asked for your credit card to be charged or anything, the total is $0 for a free fantasy football team so you aren't asked for anything.

5. Lastly, login in the upper right hand corner by using the information you provided when you created the fantasy team. Then you can now look around in the league to see who else has joined.

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This is totally funny and an awesome read the SB Nation's Utah site Block U put together, so I pulled an excerpt of this from a screen shot, but make sure to head to their site to read the entire piece.

Please check their whole post it is brilliant.

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This afternoon Utah State Athletic Director Scott Barnes revealed in an "open letter" that on Wednesday the MWC extended the Aggies an invitation to join the Mountain West Conference along with Nevada and Fresno State. 

When the possibility of BYU leaving became known, MWC leadership contacted three WAC members inquiring about their interest in joining the MWC. Utah State was the first of these three contacts.   At the point in time when Utah State was contacted by the MWC we had a binding agreement with the WAC and were well positioned with nine members, which included BYU. We were simply committed to uphold our agreement with fellow WAC members. We respectfully declined MWC interest and believed all WAC members would remain committed to our agreement.

Here is a quote from Utah State AD Scott Barnes had in the Salt Lake Tribune about the offer from the Mountain West:

"We were simply committed to uphold our agreement with fellow WAC members," USU athletic director Scott Barnes said in a statement released Thursday evening. "We respectfully declined MWC interest and believed that all WAC schools were committed to our agreement.

In other news, I just threw up in my mouth. One can only hope that MWC Commissioner Thompson has since sobered on the idea and pulled the offer off the table.

Thanks to Todd Wright at Sporting News Radio who passed along this interview to me with LaVell Edwards who for those who do not know he is the former BYU coach and it amazingly has been ten years since he retired.

LaVell's take on this is that he believes teams should be in a conference and that he was very surprised and that this came out of the blue that BYU is going independent.  Edwards also says that Tom Holmoe and the other higher ups are not dumb and they would not be making this move without doing their extensive research.

The scheduling issue is what concerns LaVell if BYU goes independent, and even by playing four to six WAC teams plus Utah filling those other games will be tough especially in late October and November.

The Holy War comes up here and LaVell feels that the rivalry will take a small hit if both are in different leagues.

Overall this is solid listen to from the former great BYU head coach.

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TCU Coach Gary Patterson gave one hell of a quotable interview on Wednesday.  I would give my thoughts, but I really think these quotes stand by themselves, also it is 2am and it's time to lay it down.

"Let's see what happens in the next two weeks before you make any judgments and see what happens on the national landscape, things I know that maybe you don't know," Horned Frogs coach Gary Patterson said.

"We are going to do what we have done since the beginning of time, since I got here 13 years ago, we are going to take care of TCU. That is what my job is; it is not my job to worry about what Utah does or what BYU does," Patterson said. "But I can tell you this, if they think being independent is an easier way to get to a national championship, you are kidding yourself."

"Like I said before, we are going to see. We are going to see if these are the right decisions," Patterson said. "But you have to be careful what you wish for. If you are BYU, you have to be careful what you wish for."

"No one chose BYU. They chose to do it for themselves. I mean, let's look at this on the other side of it, maybe... I can't say that. I'll save it for another time when we are not in the same conference."

 TCU AD Chris Del Conte, fresh off his big moment in the sun, is not going to take let TCU take this moment lying down and is turning over every rock that might benefit the Frogs.

"In this day and age, with conference expansion, teams leaving, everything is on the table," TCU athletic director Chris Del Conte said. "Everything is in play. Every rumor is in play."