Leon Rice

But the reason why I have them at six is because I have Boise State there at five.

Boise State has continued to be a program with Leon Rice that is in the NCAA tournament.

They're probably going to be in the mix to make some progress.

Some shocking upsets there in the Pac-12.

You know, obviously he gets hurt.

You don't even know if he's going to be back at all this year.

The big deal with Leon Rice, you know, you see a lot of Boise fans.

They're like, oh, I don't know if Leon's the guy.

So who knows what year three has in store.

Boise State, they're usually competitive, especially with Leon Rice at the helm still.

Oregon State, they're going to be an interesting one to watch, especially with a brand new coaching staff for the first time in a long time.

So I think there's just a lot of storylines about in this new Pac-12.

We'll see.

Boise, I think, is still going to be really good with Leon Rice, San Diego State.

I don't love their roster on paper, but I also just have a hard time not giving them the benefit of the doubt at this point.

I think CSU is right there.

They've cycled through coaches, and yet they're still – a great program, one of the best programs in the West.

And then you've got Boise State, who's been consistently a winner, consistently a top 75 level program, NCAA tournaments, an experienced head coach, and Leon Rice.

You've got Colorado State, who's a good program under a newer, young head coach.

So this new Pac-12 is a very, very good basketball league, and we're just looking to fight and climb and try and get to the top of the league quickly.

Shout out to those coaches that they've had the past couple years that have really built them into a powerhouse program, or maybe it's just the program in general is just awesome and just constitutes winning.

Boise State Leon Rice is awesome that's a big brand as well over on the west coast San Diego State made a national championship game just a couple seasons ago they're still good they backed off the past couple seasons haven't been as good but Brian Dutcher will figure it out they just got to get more money and then Colorado State is in great hands with Ali Farouk Namesh they had a good year last year Nico Medved really you know broke through a couple seasons ago and then Oregon State also with Justin Joyner I think he's going to be a star in the profession.

I think Oregon State is going to be much better than people are anticipating this year.

So that's six teams.

rice.

This is actually Leon rice's third conference at Boise state, which I think you noted in your, in your preview as well, which is just kind of incredible.

I'm not sure if there's any other coach in the country.

There probably is somewhere that isn't like at the same school and has taken them up two different conference

switches, but Leon Rice has certainly

done it.

And The one thing that sticks out to me about this roster is the Ty Rogers

Team for me in the past few years.

You look at it, this league now has Brian Dutcher at San Diego State.

It's got Leon Rice at Boise State.

Go to the next slide if you're running down the coaches list here.

True.

If they hit on this portal class because...

But they also lost some pieces.

It would just be a blind bank on Leon Rice.

I mean, you look at... what he was able to do in the Mountain West since what? Actually, for the most part, his whole career there.