I’m curious what market really is - percent of high-roller fans (or fan groups) vs business interests. My guess in Montana and Dakotas it is business expectation to be seen there. There are for sure big companies that have lucrative ties to our academic output, but is it a business expectation for Monsanto and Diamond Walnut to have suites? I don’t know. The other thing interesting about USD, is they pulled some of their suites down front field level. Florida State’s new stadium did the same thing, greater variety of types of premium seating and some of it lower than before.

Sac State is in less demand than the vegetarian platter at Texas Roadhouse.

We dropped one position to #9 in Stats and Coaches polls, puts us right with Idaho. Sac dropped to #21. SDSU and Montana St are very competitive, went to 2 OT. I don’t know much about Illinois St or Rhode Island but the polls are hot on them. Not sure why Montana went up. D2 Central Washington gave them all they could handle until running out of depth in the trenches in the 3rd quarter.

a table skirt and a pop-up backdrop would have fit in one suitcase so this didn’t look like a deposition.

They mentioned that a couple of star players could already be playing on Sunday but elected to play an extra year of CFB to pad their stats and secure a potentially better contact. Which is exactly what we saw. The talent imbalance between the FBS top 25 and everyone else is insane. Based on what I saw earlier, I don’t think Nevada would have done much better than us.

Technically we played a closer game than Oklahoma State did with Oregon or Akron with Nebraska.

I think I read ACC is going to start putting the refs on a hot mic during reviews. I haven’t listened to any ACC games but in theory would be interesting to listen in on deliberation on plays like this.

he took a hard hit. He initiated a slide and Murvin Kenion (a transfer from Sac State interesting enough) did not sufficiently apply the brakes to the freight train and flattened him on what turned into a targeting penalty. In typical Sac State fashion, was offset by unsportsmanlike conduct after the play. Kenion was bounced and Rashada was slow to get up.

I’m pretty sure Big 10 and free don’t often appear in the same sentence. If you have Hulu live tv or YouTube live tv you could DVR it. Or I think Fox Sports app has B10 replays. None are inherently free but have free trial offers if you haven’t previously tried them.

back in the 90s they used to have a merch tent at Toomey Field. They also had the “Aggie Fanatics” program where you earned Aggie Bucks for going to games, redeemable for certain shirts and promo items. It was a simpler time for merch for sure, but idk why they killed that off.

I haven’t been in several years so I can’t say what it’s like now. When it first opened they had an in-house screen printing machine of some sort that they could do basic Aggie pride shirts for like $12. They stopped promoting that after a couple years and it started to homogenize with the campus store. But idk now.

The sideline store is run through BSN, which as I understand is basically a print on demand operation that can print hundreds of university logos on a catalog of base items. So I think it’s going to be the same couple logo designs superimposed on a wide variety of apparel items with a printable block and not so much specialty designs that need setup per item. But perhaps better pricing due to no minimum stock or physical storefront.

I haven’t been to the bookstore in a few years, but after it changed to UC Davis Stores, it sure seemed like the quality and selection went down and prices went up as they oddly pivoted to selling more general merchandise and tech at the expense of less apparel and imprint merch. No idea why people apparently go there to buy skincare products and headphones at inflated prices.

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the north and south bleachers were temporary each football season. Might have even been rented. They didn’t come back after the final season. The east and west bleachers were torn down in 2017 with almost no notice due structural issues. At the time people called athletics to inquire about getting a piece but it was too late to organize a plan. An uncharacteristic misstep that Kevin Blue underestimated the nostalgia and interest. There are a couple park benches at Aggie Stadium made from Toomey bleachers but otherwise everything was hauled off. I don’t know in this case exactly, but pretty typical for demo companies is to bid with the assumption that they can retain the scrap value, in this case a good amount of aluminum that probably helped offset disposal of the treated lumber.

A game like this, although early in the season, helps establish a baseline of where Valley and Big Sky stand in relation to each other that year.

The game looks like it will be broadcast on Big Ten Network (BTN), which is owned by Fox Sports. If you have cable, you may already get this channel. Otherwise you can do a free trial of Fox ONE app, Hulu Live TV or Fubo, if you have not previously redeemed a free trial. Just make sure to cancel if you don’t intend to keep those services because they are expensive. There is a B10+ streaming app but that appears to be for all the minor sports not on the mainline cable channels, so I don’t think that will help you here.

I was listening to the radio stream for the Gould era. Marsh wasn’t so much doom and gloom, instead they would just stop talking about the game so DK could wax poetic about random Aggie and 49ers players from 40 years ago.

some hats have cattle, some have a case of bubba burgers from Walmart.

A win is a win but it wasn’t clean. Maybe Utah Tech is better than advertised but I’m also not convinced we belong in the top 10 right now. But there has been so much turnover in FCS, hard to know where anyone stands.

The feed issues started at midnight eastern and are affecting multiple espn+ games I’ve flipped to. Probably some nerd updating a server didn’t realize football was still live.