The new arena is walking distance from the Green Valley Resort Casino, where we stayed once. Nice place. All the sudden the idea of going to the tournament sounds appealing to my wife!

the jury is out on QB. I think the conservative play calling was a reflection about QB decision making/accuracy. Rodrigues wasn’t accurate against the good teams which is a concern. I thought he threw well on the move (think about that winning drive v ISU); hopefully we’ll see more of that. Hastings also had accuracy issues, although he didn’t get many reps to get comfortable. Accuracy has been the negative that I’ve heard about Tompkins since spring 2020. If one guy makes a leap, we will be very good.

agree. And it takes away any home crowd advantage for the LA schools

WCC and Pac12 have both played their tournaments in Vegas for with no Nevada teams.

true BUT I think it has more to do with having lost his starting position to an underclassman

big slabs of meat (Flintstonian) lots of baked potatoes and sourdough bread. Family style dining.

the Jacks beat us in 81 on a last second FG ending a long 38-game FWC winning streak. Trip was brutal. Only highlight was Friday night dinner at the Samoa Cookhouse! I can’t remember where we did our Friday walkthrough.

On the way home from that game, coaches drove home in a van leaving us with the trainers. Some of us pooled our meal money ($6, 2 days at $3 per, paid in a two dollar bill and Susan B Anthony silver dollar) to buy a lot of cheap beer for the ride home. We told trainers Sochor okayed it. Great plan….except no bathroom on bus for LONG ride home. Had to get the driver to pull over along 101 for a team pee.

I agree; getting quality broadcasts should be a high priority. I thought the games on 31 would have a professional crew but it seems like it was the standard streaming broadcast. Maybe that’s the deal we had to strike to get it on local Tv (little or no cost to them). This is a great platform to show potential recruits.

That being said….our visual isn’t great but our audio tends to be head and shoulders over other BSC broadcasts). The Scotts do a good job and have obviously done their homework on the teams

this isn’t exactly the New York Times so take it with a grain of salt. Sounds like many schools currently on + have rather poor quality.

https://tubsattheclub.com/2021/06/09/espn-for-big-sky-is-a-lateral-move-dont-be-fooled/?fbclid=IwAR3FWoKqrNQKviOiTfSUEB527Q-0Ghwzbviw32sfPd6CBdjINfQuKLw4D50

I was reading an article where the author indicated the production would likely be the same. Schools are responsible for the production teams they use.

ESPN+ requires a subscription, correct? If I’m right, looks like $6/month? I like my free Pluto. I don’t think the quality improves since they will use existing crews (from what I read)

Is ESPN+ available on the smart TV app?

what kind of flight did you get? We looked into using United miles but couldn’t find any non-stop. We decided the trip to San Diego was a better option!

He suffered a heart attack while golfing

Just to correct myself, he played 77-80 for Davis. I believe he was FWC defensive player of the year in 80

I was having this conversation a couple weeks backs with people that have more clout than me. Recruiting seems to be a major issue. Unlike football, it’s hard to make inroads in SOCal amidst the vast talent pool when you are going up against mostly SOCal teams. We have to beat Sac Statd for the best of the valley, and start to grab the kids in the East Bay. I haven’t watched enough to comment on coaching. Talent wins more often than not

https://ucdavisaggies.com/news/2021/6/3/football-whelan-perryman-earn-phil-steele-all-america-honors.aspx



Another honor, along with Perryman

Best of luck to Kennedy. Hard-nosed kid who brought energy every time he was on the court. I think his ‘transfer’ was a numbers game - no room for another grad transfer.

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Interesting article on the subject

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/05/31/will-eliminating-standard-tests-really-reduce-racial-disparities-in-education/

I got the impression that recruits only had to have the UC required GPA of 3.0 in the core classes to be eligible for admission. I’ve never heard coaches mention SAT scores when discussing the eligible pool of recruits.