I think what I'd like to see regardless of an upgrade is better messaging. I took my son to the EWU game a few years ago, and I just bought the most expensive tickets, which were in the Team Aggie section. We started wondering why we didn't have lanyards and name tags. Nobody cared, but it wasn't clear when we bought tickets. Same with tailgating and parking. There seem to be special perks for season ticket holders and Team Aggie members, but anybody can buy those options through the ticketing website. Also, why are there different tailgating sections that are so spread out? Last weekend, we met up with Dwight and Brock at the APP tailgate. So, there is dedicated tailgating on La Rue, Lot 56, and Lot 53. Then there was a grassy area with an alumni association setup, but I had no idea what was going on in that area.

And, I don't think I need to beat a dead horse any more about getting the word out about the free tickets to both students and general admission.

John Shoemaker was a fraternity brother of mine, and we were both chemical engineers. When the team had a playoff game in 1997 against New Haven (tough loss 25-27!), one of our professors who was a complete jerk 1) refused to let him take our final early, because he thought he would tell the rest of us what was on the test and 2) also didn't trust the coaching staff to fairly proctor the exam. I think it took a lot of arguing between the dean of the school of engineering and the athletic staff to allow him to take the test on a plane. I'm glad it seems the school is more supportive of our athletic programs today. Although, I'm positive it was just that one very highly respected jerk of a professor.

I was pretty much the only person in my section making any noise. And when I did, folks were mostly nice and polite but treated me like a kid. When I tried to high five some folks after a touchdown, they looked annoyed. Maybe it was just me though — quadshock

Same here. We were in sect 120 in the 4th row. At one point, I high fived the entire front row. Not much of a response.

On a side note, the young man sitting next us was quiet, but very interested in the game and also had ESPN up monitoring all of the playoff scores. Turns out in 2017, he broke the Guiness World Record for being the youngest person to visit every country! Crazy!

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/meet-the-new-youngest-person-to-visit-every-country_b_591ac755e4b03e1c81b0089f

Nothing could possibly be worse than flying a red eye on Spirit to NJ with ~15 high school kids my son's freshman year for a crew meet. I will never, ever, ever again complain about how bad air travel is after that flight. It set the bar so low on how uncomfortable flying could possibly be.

I'm waiting for Plough to recognize the $300 recurring gift I set up this year.

"Dr. House was a practicing Board Certified Urologic Surgeon until 2017 and currently lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife Karla, son Lukas and daughter Lena."

USD received a $5.6M gift. First few minutes of the USD video.
https://goyotes.com/news/2024/12/4/general-john-house-gifts-usd-athletics-with-largest-non-corporate-gift-in-school-history.aspx

$5.6M gift for the USD football program???

I don't know. My cousin's son who joined me Saturday for the football/basketball double header responded with, "That's not bad at all. I've never been to South Dakota." Ah, the days of being 22 with no wife, kids, mortgage, etc. ;-)

@69aggie We'll be watching the game at my parents' house while my mom and daughter bake a bunch of Christmas cookies. I'm sure you'd be welcome to swing by.

So... tempting...

Hoo boy, this is slightly tempting, but still not gonna do it. The locks might be changed when I get home. No hotel needed!

Edit - Never mind. That departure is local time 5:15, and the game starts at 2. Phew, now I don't even have to consider it. Although, there is a 6AM flight Sunday morning, that would have me back home by 10AM...

But the MW only has womens soccer, right, no mens?

do they stay in the Big West?

Espn+ has got to be the cheapest streaming service and you get almost all of the Davis sports. With our kids Disney+, it's only an extra $1/mo.

Agreed. It's 1.5-2 hours to get up to Davis, and usually not practical to drag kids or convince my wife to let me take off for the entire day. But living in San Mateo, I try to make it when they play football or basketball against Cal/Stanford/USF. SJSU adds one more convenient option.

It surprises me that this wasn't announced before a double header weekend with one of those events being such a big playoff game. I high fived May at least twice Saturday, and he made no mention of this to me!

Did we start 13 on offense and 4 on defense? Maybe that's why ISU scored so quickly.

Work, family, prepping for family visiting for Christmas. The list goes on and on. My boss also went to Davis, and I've gone to more games this year than he did his entire time in college. So, trying to get him to pay for me to go to a football game in South Dakota isn't high on his list of priorities.

I started working in the food industry 5 years ago to the day, and I've been using my o-chem book here and there. We have several new customers in South Dakota. My boss does not seem to feel as strongly as I do that those customers need a site visit this Friday or next Monday.