• 2025 FCS Playoffs
    He’ll worry about that later. He’s currently on hold with American Airlines trying to get a refund on his Nashville tickets.
  • 2025 FCS Playoffs
    The committee chair just talked about OOC like Mercer v UC Davis being a “resume enhancer”. So yeah, seems like we got double secret credit for leading a tight game against #6
  • 2025 FCS Playoffs
    Looking forward to seeing video of the team watch party! I don’t think this was expected since they were already hawking tickets for next weekend
  • 2025 FCS Playoffs
    IF you have a cable package that includes ESPNU, you can add your cable company login to ESPN. Or you can subscribe to ESPN Ultimate which includes the cable channels.
  • Coaching Carousel
    by “school they once were” do you mean the early 90s when they were relevant in D2? But yes, tough market—commuter school and for sure second fiddle in the market to O and OSU, even though neither is in Portland.
  • 71st Causeway Classic: UC Davis vs. Sac State
    GO AGS! Stingers Down.

    In the off season, perhaps coach Marion can find some cattle for all that empty hat. And possibly some pants that aren’t meant for a flood.
  • Facilities Master Plan Release
    my thought is that if you boxed in the mezzanine, the building might not have the vertical height to make a sightline work from the upper level. With the boxes pulled back as proposed, you potentially create a sizable cavern under them to put modern ADA-accessible restrooms and concessions. I suppose use cases vary, but when I got invited to my company’s box for an NBA game, watching the game was secondary to the open bar situation and executive politicking in the back of the suite so maybe the view wasn’t that important.

    For the stadium, I would probably recommend they just demo the press box and build a simpler tower including all the press boxes and suites, especially considering Scott and Scott have mentioned the press box is cramped. In my experience, interlocking two independent structures like that is always more expensive and complicated than planned. I’d be curious to know what they mean by an open food court. I don’t love food trucks. In a stadium, your transaction time goal is 15-20 seconds and food trucks are super slow. You want 1-step foods that limit customization to deliver quality at volume.
  • Facilities Master Plan Release
    The UCU renovation looks pretty nice. Hard to tell in the rendering, but I wonder if they will fill in seating at the north end to make up seat count from the loge? Hopefully can undo the aesthetic atrocities of the 2008-ish renovation. Maybe they can hold a ceremony to cut down the horrible divider net?
  • 71st Causeway Classic: UC Davis vs. Sac State
    well, I live in Orlando (lightning capital of the world) and outdoor football games, concerts, and theme park parades still happen. Usually thunderstorms pass through violently but quickly. This was just an unusual set of circumstances. The storm ran out of wind and parked. The City of Montgomery had no vested interest in the outcome so no incentive to keep the power meter spinning for the lights, and the Davis travel arranger had the pilots scheduled too tight.
  • 71st Causeway Classic: UC Davis vs. Sac State
    at the same time, some scheduling cross pollination helps establish where the conferences are in relation to each other before the playoffs and may help make the case for a bubble team in a strong conference.
  • Sac State's bid for the Pac 12 Thread
    what would the trophy be? The Cup Cup? Presented on field by Dr Wood?
  • 71st Causeway Classic: UC Davis vs. Sac State
    well, I mean at the current rate of spend, Sac doesn’t have long before football hits pay dirt or goes bust, so in the event of the latter idk if they make it out next open schedule.
  • Big Sky Football Games Week 12
    The camera work was terrible and this is not unique to Sac State. ESPN+ has minimum requirements 6 positions with 1080i broadcast cameras at 60fps but ultimately the school hires the production. You’d need 150-300fps capable cameras to have good replays and probably 10 positions. Sidelines inside the 20 have poor angles and the track puts the cameras extra far away. The refs got this one wrong for sure, though the cameras they had to work with may have been inconclusive. I don’t know if suspending them solves much. Refs at even at the NFL level are not paid all that well. For Big Sky I think they make $500-$900 per game, so these are guys who are either retired or have a day job and probably took Friday off work to travel. Given that the conference all but acknowledged that the outcome of the game is incorrect, perhaps the committee will think of it as something less than a full win. The comments among some of the Sac faithful defending the outcome as just, well we can see who hasn’t reached the Maslow’s self actualization stage.
  • 71st Causeway Classic: UC Davis vs. Sac State
    Just putting this out there, that the football gods are still holding our deposit from 2009 with the Chris Carter catch that was ruled not a catch. If this is fact the last Causeway, perhaps it is time for them to return our deposit, with interest.
  • UC Davis @ Montana State
    man, it seems like not so long ago that big time college bribery was boosters renting a Hummer and some exotic dancers for a recruiting weekend, and it had to be done on the double-secret.
  • UC Davis @ Montana State
    Same party trick as last year, Julius Davis underutilized in 1st half and comes out ready to party 2nd half.
  • UC Davis @ Montana State
    Showdown is set for next week. Sac barely escapes with a win. Barely.
  • Big Sky Football Games Week 12
    So watching the Sac game is weird. The primary camera position is on the visitor side but when the ref makes a call they switch to a camera on the home side. So the hand signals appear opposite of our vantage point.