Can the problem be solved externally? - Yes. Should the problem exist in the first place? - No.

For as much joy as coaches and professors may find, mid-level bureaucrats in areas like student affairs and student housing have found none, long suffering from stubborn policy absolutism. Hopefully they can find what joy is.

It’s hard to know what motivates people. Probably fair that most people are convinced by money most of the time, but it isn’t always the case. One time I turned down a considerable promotion because I wasn’t feeling it with boss or the city I would have had to move to.

Plough mentioned this was a problem even for guys on the team living in the dorms - potentially have to sleep on floors or get hotels. I’d love to hear a compelling reason from student housing why people can’t stay till Sunday even if no dining hall. It’s not like they’re paying OT to clean the hallway carpets on the weekend.

yeah I doubt they were planning for anything like that back then and it’s a non-sexy investment now because you can’t see it. But there’s also the matter of being a responsible property owner. Even if you don’t care about streaming, calls and texts still need to go through, even for 6 days a year. Bad situations in a crowd get worse real fast if emergency calls and texts don’t go through.

In 2006 when the stadium was being built, 2G was the prevailing technology. The first iPhone in 2007 did not have a camera! The lower frequency was better at bouncing around from terrestrial towers into the sunken bowl. Modern high frequency signals like 5G have much better data capacity, but have shorter range, require line of sight, and get absorbed more readily by bodies in a crowd setting. If the university has not added 5G sites, service in the bowl has likely degraded in the last 5 years since the carriers shut off 2g/3g. From public maps it looks there are macrocells at Hutchison Field to the east and Garrod Dr west of 113. If they didn’t add 5G small cells all over campus they likely do have poor density coverage and makes sense why the stadium bowl is in a shadow.

As a short term solution, they could rent a temporary microcell trailer from Crown Castle. The carriers want out of the infrastructure business, so companies like CC actually own a lot of it now. You need shore power and a connection to a fiber backbone and then ATT, Verizon, and TMobile supply edge routers to CC to carry their network. This is ugly but not actually that prohibitive to rent and will provide ok service.

The correct permanent way to build this out is a distributed antenna system, with fiber to radio heads all over the stadium. Modern radio heads can broadcast cellular and WiFi signals. Under the seats or on railings is actually ideal so you keep the cells small and a lot of radio traffic at leg level - we have less water mass in our legs. Carriers have no interest in funding this sort of thing beyond providing an edge router and at that they will make you wait 6-12 months. Probably a $3M job all in if you want a system for reliable mass live streaming.

hopefully, for their own sake, the title of this thread eventually changes to Sac St President Out. This guy is an ego junkie pretty high on himself and the financial/academic malfeasance is going to collapse on him sooner or later. I wonder what his exit strategy is? Is he going to cash this check for however many years it takes the state to fire him or is he going to get one of those negotiated deals where he gets promoted to some state board for more money and less responsibility?

appears that way. In our time block, ABC conflicts with the other game, ESPN has men’s basketball, ESPNU has women’s basketball, and ESPN2 has women’s volleyball regional. So we are on ESPN+, unless something gets bumped or time changed.

The production quality was so much better than what we have seen before. Even if we can’t afford to rent cameras of that quality on the regular, hopefully we saved the number for some of those operators.

5pm ET / 2pm PT :wink:

Ok, if anyone from athletics marketing reads this, going to need push harder potentially for Illinois State since most students will be home—

• have the chancellor extend the winter break dorm closure date to Sunday.
• review admission data to see which students came to the most games, then cross reference with their zip codes. If there are clusters within 90 minutes, organize charters and then call them.
• setup a group code for Amtrak. Maybe even pick a train to designate as the Aggie Pride Train. They used to do this for Pajamarino.
• going to need a townie turnout. 2pm is a perfect time, organize a community bike parade from the Farmers Market and promote this week in the elementary schools.
• make nice with the Alumni Band and have them rally the Farmers Market all morning and help out at the game if the kiddie band is thin.
• get the “football this Saturday” message into all the Unitrans electronic signs. They used to do this like 20 years ago.

We have approximately 1 in 62 chance of hosting Illinois State two weekends from now.

There is still a chance. :smile:

This one aged into a fine wine. Cheers, sir.

does Quahog (Family Guy) count?

I think Orr is just Wood’s elf (Hornet?) on a shelf. Doesn’t do much other than get moved from shelf to shelf with a plastic smile and a note pinned to his shirt.

Maybe Ron Gould would work? And then opponents would only need to learn to defend 50 yard field goal attempts.

quite frankly, both Wood brothers are a bad deal for all taxpayers, whether you care about Sac State athletics or not.

The challenge with Dr. Wood is that he has not been hired or retained based on academic merit or administrative performance. He was hired for other reasons, and those other reasons become very litigious when it comes time to plunge the toilet that has overfloweth with crap.

I’d assume that people have been cracking Barnum and Bailey jokes his whole life such that he might avoid clown shows, which this most certainly is.

I just drove by one of those Florida high schools today lol. West Orange HS is the old money school in town where they recruit and register kids under fake addresses. Evans HS is in the part of Orlando you wouldn’t even want to visit during the day. Different, but both fit Sac.

don’t tease me with the bonfire! That used to be so much fun. Pies might be hard to schedule the labor at this point. Pizza and cookies are achievable though. For hot beverages the catering department has these industrial brewers that take liquid coffee or chocolate concentrate and can fill about 5 gallons per minute. That was my campus job back in the day, sometimes getting a couple hundred gallons of (not great) coffee cranking in the morning.

one time, we had a bust for an employee appreciation event so we ran to Costco for pizza, churros, and water for 500. They loaded on pallets and forked it into the truck without blinking lol.

if someone ordered 460 pizzas, that is mad rewards points, they’d be eating free themselves for a year lol. Given the cold temps, if they aren’t concerned about concession revenue they could offer free hot chocolate, hot coffee, and DC late nite cookies. Those are all cheap and easy to execute in bulk quantity in the time available.

is this what “…or bust” looks like in the Dr Wood reach-around? Maybe they can secure Jergens and Kleenex as sponsors.

agreed, it shouldn’t be hard to have a functional YouTube press conference. Disappointing to hear stadium audio is still an issue. It’s been pushing 20 years and still not solved?