News reports indicate that Montana has decided to stay in the FCS, despite having a program that has consistently dominated this level and is more than ready for the move up to Division I football.
There were three reasons for Engstrom's decision, and it's easy to translate seeing as how he's old and is reportedly a clone of former President Captain Dennison:
1) Keeping the rivalry with Montana State alive (so what if the WAC forbids going to FCS Stadiums...raise your middle fingers and do it anyway, what are they going to do? A stern warning?)
2) To compete with academic institutions with similar missions to Montana (don't ALL damn colleges have the SAME DAMN MISSION STATEMENT? To graduate and educate?)
3) He wanted to maintain the success and prestige sustained over the last 20 years (so...he wants the status quo despite the warnings all around him that the utopia desired and believed in by the Woodrow Wilson-Democracy-Loving types is a farce and cannot work in the long run)
Seriously, this whole decision, in my opinion, was short-sighted in the least politically motivated at the most, and it's showing the Good Ole Boy network and their intentions very well. They want to keep Montana and MSU in small-football forever because the Board apparently feels that they can hold back time, that they can freeze it and keep their universities where they are at for as long as they can. Kind of reminds me of the old elites after World War II. They thought they could hold their empires together despite being totally ravaged by the war, that the great independence movements could be contained and their empires forever preserved in time.
They, like President Engstrom and Montana will soon find out...were dead wrong. You should have taken this chance. Yes it would have been expensive, and it would have been painful. But you should have looked beyond the next 2 months, sir. You should have been looking at the next 15-20 years. You may never get another chance at this.
You have decided to remain frozen in time, and you will pass away as an image of glory and pride having long passed into history.
1 comment:
Good read.
I hate bowls and LOVE the playoffs, but the idea of big(ger) time football had me excited. I can't say I'm THAT bummed about staying in the Big Sky, but it's almost like we had a job offer with a high reward but turned it down because it might be more work and take time to succeed.
UM now needs to step up somehow and not just be complacent to where they are/have been the last 5 years. FCS brethren are catching up quickly.
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