one thing to keep in mind is many schools have majors in hospitality, sports management, journalism, digital media, advertising, etc. that provide a talent pipeline that drives excellence in these areas. We are unlikely to add those majors and it is difficult to retain experienced talent on the open market in these areas without that academic support. Interns are only so good when the person training them has limited experience.

no joke. If he was taking a legit course load for 9 years, he’d be close to a practicing MD by now.

Will be interesting to see if NDSU plateaus as a solid football member of MWC or if they excel to the point of seeking larger pastures in the next re-org. I believe their challenge was different than ours though. While they certainly have a dedicated fan base, some described a growing apathy of the FCS title becoming too common to be interesting. Deep home playoff runs in the Dakotas at night also have icy roads and fundamentally prevent ls the Fargodome from booking events Nov/Dec just in case. There’s a lot of upside. New, theoretically tougher opponents drive up demand and at some point maybe a bowl game in a sunny locale that they travel well to.

I don’t think their seat at the table mean we won’t have one at some point. I have no inside knowledge, but from interviews I think MWC is interested in stability. Presumably they saw us as a bet worth investing some time. There were other options with immediate availability that they did not entertain.

so what, dude is pushing 30 on a team with 19 year olds? There’s bad luck and then there’s not taking a hint from the football gods.

a classless POS — aggiedt60

Bobby Hauck theme song right there.

I’m not a JD, but idk how enforcement would work. If deep pockets wanted a guy bad enough, buying out the contact might just be the cost of business. But if a guy called bluff and just disregarded the contract, the optics of a school seeking damages from a student might be tough politics. When you say it makes no sense, you mean for us. This makes total sense for the Big 10 to outsource development costs and risks.

the speed with which this spun out of control was astounding. The original complaint was should a student athlete be able to monetize a bad homemade music video on YouTube. Under the old rules he could not but a non-athlete of course could. I think most reasonable people would agree that was unfair but I don’t think very many reasonable folks would call this the answer. You’re correct that judges must decide cases on the facts that exist but I’d argue that the way this was applied was probably overreach because the legislative branch just didn’t do anything.

so tomato would actually have a cool tie in to Aggie Stadium — prior to the 1950s tomatoes had to be handpicked and didn’t travel well. The agriculture mechanics department helped develop mechanical harvesters and UCD plant scientists had to develop tomatoes with thicker skins that could withstand mechanical harvesting and trucking, known as the “square tomato”, which is what we rely on today to have tomato products year around. At the time, Hutchison Dr was lined with tomato fields and the researchers threw the tomatoes at the road to select the ones that didn’t splat as bad. Maybe could have a modern tomato toss outside the stadium. It would be pretty close to the actual spot.

about $17.5m in bonds were issued with a 30 year amortization. So presuming no changes have been made, theoretically paid off in 2037.

They don’t exactly mention if they gave him truck (in which case he may owe taxes as income) or if this is more of a lend/lease as long you play here arrangement. I won’t wish him ill or well. I will just wish for him to earn what he deserves and deserve what he earns.

A tacky ad. But that is kind of Wazzu brand. If you imagined the old PAC12 having a BBQ, everyone else would be grilling ribs and briskets in the backyard while WSU and ASU were blaring country music and shotgunning Natty Ices in the driveway. So I guess the truck tracks.

The double-font logo first appeared around 1993. I don’t know the specific history but prior to that time the university seal or the Block CA were used across campus. It timed with 3 things - several other UC campuses were also developing wordmarks, an overall trend among universities to separate academic and athletic wordmarks/logos, and word processing becoming commonplace over typewriters for communication. The font has actually been updated slightly a couple times since.

The C-Horse logo was designed in 1999 by a committee of about 30 working with a big shot New York branding company. In 1998, Men’s Basketball won the D2 national championship and to the chagrin of many a “Cal-Davis” banner was hoisted by the NCAA. It was determined that the brand was too inconsistent given that even the NCAA got it wrong. Each team was kind of doing its own thing with some sort of CA or script Davis and a mishmash of attempts at mascots and logos, mostly cows and water towers. Gunrock hadn’t been a thing since the 1920s but was resurrected into a costumable mascot as part of the unified brand. There was tension though, as rowing and the Band-uh were committed to the Block CA and baseball I believe to the Lemon CA.

I don’t know the history of all the logos, but I do know the band wore mostly hand-me-down uniforms from Cal through the 1970s so the “A” was added by hand to the Cal “C”. Wouldn’t surprise me if athletics was also getting some secondhand equipment in the era.

A simple logo in a square or circle format is needed to work right on social media handles and score bugs. Complicated or rectangular logos get too small. I’m ok with the Lemon CA in this case but I am more partial to the Block CA. An alternate that would be too complex for most uses but would make some great vintage merch is the Block CA with the horse and wheat. Before that there was an interlocking CA where the C formed the cross of the A which I also like the look of. I’m a traditionalist. I like the blue tops, gold bottom and gold helmet with script Davis. I guess alternate looks are needed for recruiting but I sort of feel that if you already have the boss level attire, no need to look further. I wouldn’t be opposed to leaning more into “Davis” and “Cal Aggie”, although it can get confusing when one or more players on the field have the last name Davis.

I wonder fast this can actually get though the legal system. After a certain point, to prevail may be little more than a Pyrrhic victory.

an argument someone made - I don’t know if it has merit but sounds plausible - is that the NCAA’s conundrum may not really about football, where no contest is pretty rare. The problem may be if used as precedent to apply to other sports where no contest might happen more often. I agree it is still unfair that it counts toward eligibility but not for stats. I wonder if one possible remedy being considered is just to make the stats count rather than change eligibility.

as an employer, for my entry level positions it’s like a Venn diagram of attitude, capability, and skills. In theory, UC is selecting those right in the middle. But it may not matter for Gen Z - recent HR cases, one of my interns habitually pooping in the company fitness center shower and another who identifies as a cat and won’t stop meowing at coworkers. The ability difference between CSU/UC is like the last of my worries.

I think we tend to devalue degrees from other schools too much. — Riveraggie

It’s funny, for the last few years I have been the people manager for about 400 employees, and maybe about 50 college kids per semester. I found that the prestige of university made no difference in performance. The best predictors of workplace success were those who had lived away from home in a dorm for at least a year and those who had experience in a crappy campus food service job.

I appreciated coach’s honesty that the program was trying to help find Wrighster and Rasor a place to get snaps. The comment about Caden though “him and his team of people and his agent decided it was better for him to move on” - not sure who his “team” is but it didn’t sound flattering. There’s fiduciary guidance and there’s non-fiduciary grifting. I think the current setup allows the latter to masquerade as the former. I wouldn’t be surprised if 10 years from now we see a crop of cashed out crashed out dudes who earned too much too fast and blew all of it with help from greedy family members and agents.

kind of funny when I saw 1-1 conference record in a conference of 2. Technically co-champions?

that says plenty.

I'll be honest I knew he was gone months ago after talking with his mom), — Sailorgabe

Are you at liberty to share context of this statement?