I was simply addressing the following false statement:

http://www.cougarboard.com/board/message.html?id=13329636

You called the poster delusional and made the claim (without any evidence to support it) that we did not play harder schedules in the MWC. The data clearly shows otherwise. Not only were the MWC schedules harder, but your claim of "there may have been one or two comparable ones" is also flawed. 2003 and 2004 were both top 15 schedules, which, since being independent, we haven't played anything close to a top 15 schedule.

You also commented on the WAC. I am unable to find data on strength of schedule rankings from our WAC years, but I suspect you don't have any data either and just made the statement without any facts to support your claim one way or the other.

As to your unrelated point of comparing USU, CSU, and Boise's schedule to our schedule this year, I don't really care. The real point of my comments is that you call posters out and make over the top statements (calling them delusional) with no basis of fact, just hoping that no one actually questions your claims by pulling up the actual stats.

So...here is my challenge to you. Your original claim with regards to our MWC vs Independent schedules is that "there may have been one or two comparable seasons, but simply not harder ones." If you have objective data to back that claim up, I'm happy to hear it and consider if I'm wrong. I'm happy I hear what you've got.