Tough day for PSU. While I certainly want us to win, it feels like success has eluded Portland and Northern Colorado for a long time, which has to impact recruiting and attendance.

@AggieFinn interestingly, Hillsboro Stadium is very similar to what is proposed at Cal Expo… an offsite, one-sided facility.

what Im reading is that the NCAA technically has no maximum delay and the longest in recent memory was about 3 hours. Because 3 quarters have been completed, the score can stand as a final result if both ADs agree. Less clear what happens if the delay becomes impractical and one AD doesn’t agree.

the title on my stream changed to “college football scoreboard” for their filler programming but they periodically cut to an image of the empty stadium.

At least on the lightning map it looks like there were a few strikes a few miles away but I haven’t seen new ones pop in a few minutes. In the south, these kind of thunder cells just appear and disappear, they don’t always blow thru on a track like west coast storms. In my area we usually have to go 30 minutes clear for 7 miles.

Game stopped for lightning in the area. Could be awhile because their metric is probably no lightning within a diameter for a certain number of minutes.

minus the cocky crotch grabbing dances. Hopefully stays that way.

I mean I want a bunch more PATs than FG lol

the other games I saw today had oddly missed FG too.

A safety? Anybody have that on their bingo card?

21-3 at half and receiving in the 3rd. Will take it!

Compared to the the Word/Nicholls game and PSU/Tarleton, the focus, preparation, commitment to second and third effort looking really good.

I know they don’t have the benefit of the yellow tv line in real life but ouch on stick awareness.

Refresh. It’s on.

Whatever ranking we were, move it up one because Incarnate Word is number four no more, falling to Nicholls 20-6. Both teams had difficulty completing drives but the Nicholls defense scored more points than The Word’s. The Cardinals lost 8 starters to P4 schools, so probably the story of this year is nobody really knows until the games start being played.

haha, Disney has always made upgrading price point easy.

The new ESPN app dropped today. Reminder to update your smartphone and smart TV apps and sign back in if necessary so you’re not jammed up as the game is starting. The new apps have some nice features like putting on up to 4 games on split screen and syncing live stats and tv control to your phone.

The Mercer game is on the ESPN main cable channel. You will need a cable subscription, or if you don’t have cable, you can buy the “ESPN Unlimited” package which includes the cable channels and the ESPN+ streaming content for $29.99.

Most of the future games are ESPN+ streaming games, which is now rebranded as “ESPN Select” for $11.99. Same as past seasons, if you already have cable or don’t care about the main channel, this is the package for you to add the streaming-only games.

I’d venture 2026 FCS independent is the likely outcome based on what we know now. Court cases can take a long time. They have 2 games on the books - Fresno and Lamar. Aside from that they just have uncertainty because they don’t exactly have friends or money. But yes, when you remove all guardrails, you end up with bad fries at Taco Bell and worse tacos at Burger King. Categories exist for a reason.

some have suggested we buy out the Stetson (home) game to have the pleasure of traveling to Sacramento, which makes no sense. If Sac is FCS independent for the foreseeable future, maybe an OOC series makes sense, though it’ll be curious to see if they get the cold shoulder from Big Sky schools. If they actually become FBS independent, where’s the money? There’s more fans at a WNBA game than there are dollars in that KMAX 31 tv deal.

I asked AI to simulate a monopoly game between Wood and Gary May. It predicts May as a steely poker-faced player who starts out boring, acquiring all the railroads and utilities, but who is ultimately strategizing moves in advance, calculating ROI of each property and wins most matchups. It predicts Wood enters the game with a splash, buying as many properties on the first half of the board as he can and mortgaging all of them to stay in the game without a solid strategy other talking nonstop to distract other players. Occasionally he hits it big but in most simulations he is bust by turn 20, landing on May’s Park Place Hotel. At which point he is likely to propose desperate non-traditional deals or demand a rule change such as (AI’s choice of words) parking reparations. I think we must be around turn 16 or 17. Time running out for the luck hit.

Cal Expo certainly needs investment. It used to be a really nice fairground and was allowed to fall into disrepair. As the crow flies, not that far from Sac State but not exactly walking distance from the dorms either. From a taxpayer perspective, may be a good thing because with Cal Expo involved, it means Luke Wood is not solely in charge, so it has some chance of not being screwed up. But goes on to show that his “shovel ready” plans for an “on campus” facility were always a lie… this guy’s relationship with the untruth is next level. From a construction perspective this might or might not be less expensive. That grandstand was built in 1967. Depending on what has already been done, there could be plenty of lead paint, asbestos, seismic, life safety and ADA work. My experience with this type of construction project is you don’t know what you don’t know so you have to budget for the unknown.