Anyone know how he looks? I remember Jimmy Laughrea came from Boise with a lot of fanfare but never panned out. Randy Wright lost his spot to Laughrea for one game I think, but then went back in. Laughrea had a strong arm which likely got him a big D1 offer, but apparently didn't have the rest of the skills needed.

Les likes to play small. Almost all our big guys leave unless they like to shoot threes. That is our entire game. Les' career was about being a sharpshooting 3 pointer and he seems to have a preference for that play. We do not penetrate low for easy 2 pointers often.

Tamba left for a much better team and is getting playing time. If we really aren't getting good talent, then who is to blame?

An artificial turf baseball field. How gross! I saw this when touring some D3 schools back east with my kids. That is not even baseball in my opinion. I feel if a school wants to do that or needs to cut costs, they should just drop the sport instead.

Natural grass is much better. I don't see how anyone is allowed to have turf with the injuries it must cause vs grass. I also don't think those black rubber pellets are safe, in case anyone gets some in their mouth, like our poor dog that picks up the tees. All the extra concussions as helmets get slammed to the ground that is harder than turf. The extra infections as cuts are exposed to a dirtier turf vs grass.

My daughter played soccer for years and the turf fields radiated heat on hot days that could be felt by the parents even on the sidelines, so turf has to be much hotter than grass. I believe Messi avoids playing any games on turf as it causes more injuries.

I toured the Green Bay Packer stadium once and they showed us that they have some kind of hybrid artificial turf and natural grass. That always sounded interesting to me to try and get the benefits of both.

We just hired a former Lehigh football player at work and he steered me wrong with the 30K minimum!! I know our original long-term designs allowed for up to 30,000 seats to be built. Looks like there was 15,000 seat minimum for FBS schools but it was eliminated in 2023, so you are right Dr. Mike. I googled Mountain West and they have no strict policy but at roughly 11,000 seats we would be the lowest. My guess is the grassy area is not counted in the 11,000, so we can hold more than that.

UNLV - 65,000
UTEP - 52,000
Air Force - 39,000
New Mexico - 39,000
Wyoming - 31,000
Nevada - 27,000
Northern Illinois - 24,000
San Jose St - 22,000
North Dakota St - 19,000
Hawaii - 17,000 - new stadium underway for 23,000 (year 2029!!). A prior stadium held 50,000

Doesn't seem like we would be able to add more seating on top of the box seating area we are building. The additional seating to get to 30,000 I believe what is needed for FCS level would likely come from putting seats in one of the grassy berm areas. Not sure if that gets us there or not. If we need more not sure if they would use the other grassy berm or go up on the visitor side. Seems like we would be more like the Salukis photos or if we go up on the visitor side then might look like the Utah St photos.

What a mess and a shame. I wondered if more coaches would quit, here's one. I though I remembered hearing that Saban quit because of all of this money nonsense. I was sort of in favor of players being able to get NIL money from 3rd party advertisers/corporations, but having schools and school alumni/supporters raise money to pay kids just doesn't make sense. Just a bunch of wasted effort/energy and money that could go elsewhere. There are lots of trades that require unpaid internships, so can't college football be considered the unpaid internship. Is that so horrible? For many with scholarships you are getting a free college degree, so not entirely unpaid. Is that worth nothing? Is the showcase and the platform a big time school provides to the player that gives them the opportunity to play in the NFL worth nothing?

I can see the players' point of view that at least the top 20 to 40 schools make money off their football program, so shouldn't the players get a piece of that? At all other schools the football program does not make money but is a big drain away from other sports teams' budgets. I'm not sure what to do about the top programs. Is there a way to create a separate division that is essentially a professional division and the rest go back to amateur status. In the professional division, maybe the leagues which negotiate the big TV contracts where most of the money comes from, dishes out a pool of funds for the teams to allocate to their players. But the school and their supporters cannot add to that so that it just becomes a deal where the best fundraisers and the most money win the championships.

I don’t think the kid is transferring here to be 3rd string. He was 2nd place behind Davion Godley at Webster who transferred to Stanford. So he should have had a lock on the starting job next year. Why transfer? Could be problem with the coach? Or he wants to win and thinks Davis gives him a better chance over the next two years. With an offer from Oregon he must have felt there was a better chance to play here. I hope we have a winner on our hands!

If Mountain West basketball is a step up from Big West we have a big problem. Can't even get it done here. If we can't sell recruits on coming to Davis over Bakersfield, then we should just pack it up.

Maybe we are on the better half of the bracket now. Two winnable games here.

I was talking to a 8th grade coach and he said that NIL money is coming to high schools. High schools will have up to $1M, either for whole team or per individual max (not sure at the moment), for the high school players. Likely only private schools will have that kind of money to shell out. So, the high schools with money to spend will separate themselves even more from the rest. These 8th grade feeder teams become even more important so the kids can get into the right high school program. All this seems to be going in the wrong direction.

I like the sound of that! Let's go Ags!

Nevada beat Eastern Washington 73-52, but it was an exhibition, while Colorado struggled to beat Eastern Washington. While it is hard to make those comparisons, it seems we have a chance to notch another big win tonight.

I didn't expect to win and thought we would lose by a fairly substantial amount, but this game was hard to watch because we could have won or at least made it very close. Too many dropped passes, and a couple of bad passes. The worst was the miss to Dixon that would have been a TD. Pinnick just had to put a little loft in the ball. Not everything has to be a rifle shot.

I am encouraged by the win tonight. NDSU has been historically pretty strong and was a pre-season pick to be 4th in their league despite a big makeover on their roster from last year. They played Oregon St very close and Oregon St. is expected to be strong this year. Way too early to tell of anyone who is good yet, but the win is encouraging. I just caught some of it on ESPN streaming and Sevilla looked quick and confident, Cooper seemed improved from last year and Niko also seems improved.

What an awful loss! We shouldn’t even be in the top 25 after this. What a joke.

If Plough really believes the "finding joy" idea, which I think he does, I don't think he would leave for more money. I guess if he thought bigger time football was a joy to him, then he might, but he can have a good life here. Way less pressure to win, some NLI issues but nowhere near the same at other schools. So, good kids still mostly playing for the love of the game.

Caden is doing a good job for us here, but he is a little short to move up to bigger programs. There are successful short QB's, but I don't believe Caden has Flutie or Mayfield skills. He doesn't have the arm strength the top programs are looking for.

Southern Utah and Weber are not that good. We don't know how good Davis is yet. Cal Poly beat Sac St and play SFA close until they lost their primary QB and gave up a punt return and interception for TD's. Cal Poly defense played Sac St tough. I think this will be a close game. I took the under on our points guess at Davis scoring between 21-30.

Nice win. Pinnick seemed more comfortable. Tough call between Fisher and Vargas over who should get more touches. Fisher did great but Vargas runs hard. Loves Mitchel Dixon’s toughness!

Hope we can still play better. Not sure we are going to knock off NDSU, SDSU or Montana St with this play and porous defense.

Ah well, Cal Poly played them tough for the first half. In any event they are better than last year. They should definitely win more games this year than last.