58 items on the silent auction. if you are a golfer, there are some great possibilites (Olympic club); wine-o's will find a ton of choices (Del Doto's cave, Satui's Castle). If you like memorabilia, there's several items with Aggie connections.

In the first half, it was 14-13 us with about 12 minutes left. Sevilla and Daugherty came out (Chappell was already out) and Les dugdeep to get Rawlins in the game - desperate to give short bench some rest. That combo didn’t go well - by the time Conner and Carl got back in at the 8 mark, we were down 27-20, and lost any momentum. No knock on Chase - he’s not not physically ready for a team like Hawaii.

Chappell has been struggling from 3; Conner was off last night. Got to get healthy before Henderson.

stokes took a nasty fall onto his head vs UCR - he wasn’t in the arena so guessing concussion. Cooper has been dealing with some type of leg injury (looks like groin based on how he was being wrapped a few weeks back and how he was walking gingerly before leaving UCR game). Then Omer hurts his ankle in the second half. Yikes!

We just couldn’t get it below 4 down the stretch. We’d get it there then give up a big bucket and get shut out in our end….back to 8. The double T was an odd call - that would have been big.

Without stokes and Cooper (and Omer late) we can’t match up with their length. Add in their deadly 3 point shooting and it’s a tough end of the home schedule.

I doubt they get an injury report. We hasn’t missed any games just not played as much. We’ll see what the starters look like!

we’re not going to get any help from the other games unless Long Beach can surprise against Poly. The beach has to win out and Poly lose out else they are missing Henderson. Not likely.

1.5 point underdogs with most sites predicting a slightly higher probability of Hawaii win. Line opened at 2.5 - maybe a sign we are healthier than we may have thought?

Hope it’s a decent crowd especially for Niko - he’s been a hell of an Aggie and a fan favorite. He deserves a nice send off. As does Daugherty who I think is the only other senior.

I think the ‘approaching 200’ may be a slight exaggeration. Less wine, less wild bidding from us!

they can outbid everyone from home!!!

last I talked to someone (last home basketball) they were in the 130 range hoping for 150. Someone may have donated do coaches and spouses can attend.

oddly, USD has grass as we’ll see in September! Hopefully at night this year - the past couple 1:00 kickoffs were brutal.

quite a few big programs especially in the south. The new San Diego state stadium apparently has grass as uses USD. I suspect it’s a matter of maintaining it.

If you take out the Thursday night loss at Hawaii, we are 1-3 on Thursday in SoCal, 2-1 on Saturday. Hopefully, next week we can break the Thursday night skid when we take on the Beach who should be out of the playoff picture.

I never said it sounded lucrative -> that was SocherField's sarcastic reply!

I don't have interest in reading the report (which seems to be in dispute), but that seems like a very big number! Out of town fans flooding the hotels to watch Akron? Local TV/radio contracts skyrocketing? Just seems like a bit of a stretch, but, what do i know.

I just don’t know what ‘economic impact’ means.

interesting that both Reno and San Jose reduced capacity after renovating. Reno hasn’t been getting close to filling that for awhile.



Some fairly empty stadiums in the new MWC.

I’m pretty sure there is no longer an attendance minimum requirement anymore. .

we’ve been playing at night in September for several years. Even then, thst setting sun at 6:45 can be tough on the east bleachers. Same big it’s a warm 4:00 October kickoff

I can’t find anything too recent on Les but there was a 2023 list showing $350k (plus annual retention bonus of $50k). That’s about $700k LESS than the average of MWC coaches according to recent Reno Newspaoer article.

https://nevadasportsnet.com/news/reporters/how-much-every-mountain-west-mens-basketball-coach-will-make-in-2025-26

Odin went from about $250k at UCSD to $1.2M at New Mexico!

Another Thursday road loss snd Saturday victory. I know the game feature different opponents (like a Thursday in Hawaii) but this trend seems telling. Seems like a competitive disadvantage for us to have 5 games like that while others have to only deal with a single trip yo NorCal. Gonna be worse next year unless we take longer road trips (leave day before).

I’m pretty sure it was injury. He got 5 minutes in the first half. Never took off his warmup in the second. There were a couple times on the first he was walking gingerly. Not sure how he was able to get 26 the other night!