I believe Hawkins already busted a few of those items out, like not being a teacher on campus.

Since one is not dominant, why aren't we playing Fisher? He racked up 80 all purpose yds last year vs Montana when LL was out. Our opponents play more than two backs.

Plough said we have six key guys out, including broken hands.

Next year may be a rebuilding year offensively as we lose a lot of 6 year players and key reserves aren't playing. MH, Hutton, LL, TT, Gale?, Davis?

FTR, Fisher had a nice run of 14-15 yards negated by a penalty.

One set up by thr defense, so really two.

So is TT hurt, we're hiding him for league play, or our offense is more vanilla?

Is this Chaz Davis' last year?

Three in a row up the gut.

Idaho sqeeks by ACU 27-24.

UT way more productive on the ground per yards per carry.

Good pics. How does the band sound?

We won't know more unless we play him, or WRs Robbie Mascheroni (6'4", 215) or Pickett (6'3") - who add length.

If I recall, Fisher seems to run downhill better than Perez.

We have a veteran QB, stud RB and TE, lost our veteran OC and fly guru, and hand-picked HC and rookie OC.

Why don't we play Fisher, who was impressive last year vs Montana?

Good interview. I like the "No block, no rock" line. Plough comes off very approachable, and a different delivery.

Not a dig. Plough is the head man, some basic decorum is good. Better to be overdressed than under, and a hat forward is pretty minimal. I can't recall if I've ever seen a DI college coach w a hat backwards at a presser.

One more week to get tuned up for Idaho. Go Ags.

Canzano: Pac-12 preparing to take a second bite of expansion apple

University of Memphis and Tulane University are top targets.

NCAA FCS National Rankings (random)

Meyer - #3 solo tackles *
Meyer - #8 total tackles **
Meyer - #2 INT per game - tied w many at .7 pg

M Hastings - #5 - total passing yards
M Hastings - #7 - yds per game

* = he has 7.3 pg; the two players ahead of him at 8 pg only played one game each.
* = several w only one game played

https://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fcs

CBS Sports: "Is this the moment when FCS powers from the Dakotas and Montana move up to populate the Mountain West? North Dakota State, North Dakota, South Dakota State, Montana and Montana State have played in 11 of the last 12 NCAA Division I national championship games. Pros for those schools: FBS, the big time. Access, in theory, to the College Football Playoff.

"Con: without saying it, the game's stakeholders -- cough, cough, the Power Four -- don't want to see any more Kennesaw States move up to FBS. To them, the division is too crowded now with 134 teams. That's one reason the Power Four are pushing for their own NCAA governance structure."

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/whats-next-for-pac-12-more-expansion-options-tv-deal-on-check-list-for-re-imagined-conference/

TV Viewers - earlier in the article:

"At first glance of this deal, the move was made strictly along television dividing lines. Only one of the six new Pac-12 schools (Washington State) is among the top 50 in total TV viewers since 2016. That's actually a positive. The eight MWC schools left behind range from 83rd in that category to 104th."

Not sure how TV viewers compare to TV media market size. Sac-Modesto-Stockton is #20 media market, and growing.

The new NCAA ranking have us move up two spots. Lately this makes me nervous as we need to learn how to close out consistently against top teams.

Yes, getting the twins and others back is important. And we don't know when a WR runs the wrong route, makes MH job tougher, or when a nasty LB is on his backend.

Were they ranked last year?

I read somewhere the Pac Conference will have at least 9 teams for scheduling purposes.