smart players like Sevilla and DeBruhl really thrive in this program. If you told me last year that Conner would be playing 33 minutes and score 11 points vs the Gauchos, I think i would have doubted you. He's grown QUICKLY into very solid contributor to this team. If we can get consistency from Daugherty and Chappell, we might be finishing higher than I had thought.

Have to be encouraged by having only 11 turnovers last night.

Still undecided about making the trip. I have an old teammate who is talking about coming out from Virginia; its just not the most convenient location to get to from SFO or Oakland! And not cheap!

i was just about to do this! thanks. The outliers are Mercer and UIW; everybody else seems to be well below their normal regular season attendence.

considering the basketball crowd was above normal, i wonder if a later start time would have brought out more students (once they finished studying all day for finals)? or, was that a product of a sweet give-away (beanies) and free tickets for football fans?

MSU had 17000. Even the Dakota’s who have years of success didn’t have tremendous attendance.

yep! Thanks for the correction!

Saturday at 2:00 our time in ESPN+. Other games are on ESPN or ABC (NDSU v Mercer)

did the same on Thursday night.

the Pavillion video board froze in the first half on Thursday, also.

The crowd felt bigger than 6500. West side was mostly full, the concourse was packed, the grass had a decent crowd and student turnout was similar to most games. Unfortunately, the team has to stare at the 3 empty sections in the NE corner.

I was surprised a large number of season tickets holders didn’t show. In their ‘defense’, we haven’t had a home game in December in 6 years so they make other plans.

I’m not sure ranting about people not showing up really helps. I don’t think the average person seeing that will be driven to show up next December. And to the people who were there, it’s like being lectured by the minister the Sunday after Easter about the people who DIDN’T show up.

they had merchandise sales in bruce Edwards room, much was NCAA playoff related.

The NCAA production really sucks the personality out of the game. No on-field contests with Darius, no dance troupe, generic scoreboard graphics, no student section contests with Darius, no Davis-related announcements/presentations during the long timeouts- they didn’t even let Darius on the mic for the kid’s halftime run!

The camera work was much better than normal.

I think I will, regrettably, missing this one. I’m heading up around 9:30 this morning for football….not sure I can convince my wife to stick around to around 7:00 for basketball.

If they can figure out how to get a victory today, that would be quite an upset, even though Gauchos are only 2.5 favorites

that a custom model! AgAlum sent me a high quality cowbell vid Amazon and my wife meticulously painted it Aggie Blue. I picked up the sticker when I was up for basketball on Thursday. Much louder than the little bookstore ones! Thermonuclear powered!

sounded like alot of injuries in his career. And could be a small partial.

One QB will be in a LDS mission for a couple years, and one sounds like a Trent Thompkins ‘we will find a spot for this guy’ type.

I read parts of a few articles but it didn’t seem real clear the purpose. I thought one article said that athletes were not bound if the coach left before they enrolled in classes. Again, wasn’t clear if they had to request a release and needed the school’s approval.

yes, I meant without

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No wimpy cowbells for us!!

I believe the answer is that they are free to decommit. I can’t tell if they still need to request a release and that the college has to grant it, or if they are now just free to go. There’s so much change right now - I didn’t realize the NLI program is soon to be eliminated

I was talking to someone in the department last night who said attendance was looking like 6000-7000 unless there was a last minute surge or big walk up. Hopefully we’ll have at least 10k. AgAlum sent me a cowbell (you can buy them at the bookstore I found out last night), so we’re ready to roll!

or season ticket holders like me who DID buy their tickets but the order got screwed up.

I fear tomorrow some of our season ticket holders are going to show up with a ticket and/or parking!