It’s really hard to draw too many conclusions from an exhibition game box score. Was it just a matter of missing a few open threes that we’ll normally make or we’re we not getting open at all? Was the defensive effort lacking or was it a matter of missing assignments that will get cleaned up with more practice. It’s certainly not a great sign obviously

I was planning on going but have my booster shot scheduled for 6:15 so I guess I won’t get there in time to see much. Maybe it’ll be streamed

Speaking of the WBB, their first exhibition game is this Monday against east bay. Free admission

Ags win 74-64. Plenty to work on.

Ba is missing. And some of the new guys, which isn’t surprising

Fuller starting isn’t a surprise, but I had pretty much given up on Adebayo being anything more than a defensive plug in. Hope I’m wrong

I thought about going but decided to pass.

We've parked at Emerson Elementary in Berkeley for games. Funds go to their PTA and they have an attendant to watch over the cars. It's about a 15 minute walk to the stadium. It's worked out well for us in the past.

https://emerson.berkeleypta.org/emerson-parking

I had to mute the cal poly announcers and turn Alexa to khtk. Much better!

there’s your third fake punt. Big man with the catch!

Go Ags!!!

Nick Amoha (left tackle) should be fine. I'm not sure if he went back in after half, but I've heard he was doing well after the game. Haven't heard about the right tackle but I'll see if I can find anything out.

Travel costs, of course, would certainly be increased. But I have no idea if those increased costs would be made up for by increased revenue. Higher profile programs would, logically, mean more $$$ generated. That's only for MBB and maybe WBB a bit. Can't see any of the Olympic sports generating substantially higher revenue in the MW vs BW, so the basketball and football programs, of course, would have to make up for the increased costs.

I'll give my 2 cents for basketball. With the men, MW is currently a step up from the Big West. The BW is usually ranked somewhere around 17th to 20th strongest conference in the nation and is considered a one bid conference (meaning only the winner of the BW tourney goes to the NCAA tourney). Mountain West is around the 14th strongest conference and last year was a 2 bid conference (SDst won their tourney and Utah St. received an at-large bid at #11 seed). Will more people come out to watch us play Colorado St. and New Mexico then SLO and UCR? The average student might not care, but yeah, I think it would certainly draw more interest overall and certainly get our name out there beyond just Ca. As for the women, Coach Gross has built a very strong program and we'd probably be favored to finish at or near the top in most years. I do think the MW has a bit better competition top to bottom than the BW. Probably a step up on the women's side, but not as big as it would be on the men's side.

Gotta love a big man that can shoot.

That’s great. Glad to see some more size coming in. He looks like a big time recruit for the Ags.

Interesting. I’m assuming Les and Derek crossed paths in the pros, so that might have helped our chances over sd st and New Mexico.

There is a unscheduled exhibition game at William Jessup on 10/30 at 6:00. It’s a fund raiser for the Dixie fire with all proceeds going to the Red Cross. Tickets are $20.

Two places that I just tried that are decent are Guads Taco and Beer, and 3rd and U. They are across the street from each other. Guads is run by Guadalajara which has two other Mexican food places in town. 3rd and U (on the corner of 3rd and university) has some decently priced burgers and beer. Bad parking.

We need one more (at least) consistent scoring option behind Manjon and Pepper. Last year Squire had the next highest pts average per game. Fuller averaged 10 ppg but he seemed to go from unstoppable to invisible. He'll need to be more consistent from game to game. The big unknown for me is Milling. Can he go from 4.8 ppg in 22 mins at Nevada to maybe a double digit scorer on 25+ mins at Davis? In other words, can he give us Squire's production (though clearly in a different way)? Should be a fun team to watch. Can wait to get back into the U?