I don’t think most FCS schools have the resources to provide the testing required. Question will be whether things have changed enough after the first of the year that will allow play with reduced testing. Else, I think several FCS leagues or teams will bail.

There was a zoom gathering today with Hawk with a couple guests ( Bakari Grant and Chaple Brown). We’re allowed a fall practice (similar to a spring) but our county hasn’t changed restrictions, so TBD. 8 game schedule starting late February - Big Sky is releasing it tomorrow but not to the public for awhile. There’s talk that SUU will opt out, which will force changes. Still fluid.

I don’t think we need to rely on Aggies in the pros for fundraising. The big football donors got nowhere close to the NFL. Most of our ex pros are missing from the Team Aggie list.

I think some of the Big 12 , based on yesterday’s results, thought they weren’t starting until later!

last season; man it was hot that day!

I vividly remember those two games, yet forgot what I had for breakfast 3 hours ago!

Beating Davis was a HUGE goal for them. Harbaugh called it his bowl game when they came in undefeated. I still get nauseous thinking about our loss down there in 2008. ALMOST ruined a trip to our favorite US city

harbaugh/johnson was at the Toomey -> their first visit to davis. the game i was referring to was the first year at Aggie Stadium. Harbaugh had left for Stanford then. 2007 was the 49-46 epic win; USD was coached by Ron Caragher. 2006 we beat them 37-27 in the first game at the Toom.

that USD game at Aggie Stadium was one of the most exciting games we’ve had (along with Idaho State OT, and UNI playoff). Johnson was electric leading them to last minute twinning TD......until Matt Engel led the long late second winning drive ! That was their first season post Harbaugh.

North Dakota State is playing central Arkansas also. Their only fall game. Maybe a showcase for trey lance prior to the draft?

we are seeing the sun today so keeping fingers crossed. First day our air quality wasn’t in the unhealthy range by the afternoon.

feels like we should be heading to Reno for the causeway!

Here’s an example of the endowment talk there (edited to California schools:

What each school is known for in the Big Sky for football

-Cal Poly- Academics (very smart football players)

-Sac State- yellow track around their football

- UC Davis- Rich Bastards


Pretty sure this list is solid but where am I wrong and right?


I pointed out we had 15 all academics at the 6th ranked public university while the smart guys at Poly had 5 (and they’re not in the top 100)

from Wikipedia, Long Beach lasted one year after George Allen died. Former Raider, Willie Brown, took over that last year. I think a combination of state budget cuts, title IX and lack of fans (after Allen) did them in

Our players were sent home earlywhen it was looking more and more like no fall (and practicing without a ball against trash cans seemed like a waste). That was a cost saving since we didn’t have to house or feed them before school started. We do still have 8-10 kids housed who would have had to return to not too stable environments. I think we sometimes forget some of our players are coming from areas and situations that are very challenging.

FCS Fans Nation

https://www.facebook.com/groups/FCSFansNation/?ref=share


LOTS of Bison talk

EWU guy. I think a bit of an inferiority complex.

Movie - I have been there. Good food. I tend to forget about it even though it’s only 2 miles or so from our house. Golf course was a dump, but I could zip over there for a quick nine holes and not be missed at work!

I tend not to comment on Facebook with solid information like this -> I think it might be forbidden!! Easier to just scroll on by. A week ago someone was wondering why our COVID numbers in Livermore were so much higher than the rest of the Tri-Valley. Usual non-fact finger pointing. I mentioned our Hispanic population is at least twice our neighbors and they are being infected at SEVEN times the rate as whites and Asians. Boy, I got some heated replies implying racism. I was just stating data.

I was being sarcastic. There are a couple guys on this FCS Facebook page always harping on our Huge amount of cash and how we can EASILY move up. Bring up our endowment constantly as if it’s all going into football.

is this question inspired by the FCS Facebook page? There’s a moderator there constantly harping on our Ivy-like endowment and, hence, our huge cash buck for football. How we can just write a check to move to FBS. You know, just like the Ivy schools!

When I talked to them , they just said ‘credit’ but no specifics about spring or next fall. I chose credit. Hope to use it sooner (basketball?) rather than later.

BTW, I think he said season tickets were at about 50% of previous year, not surprising since the big push normally comes in February and March.