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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

what would the trophy be? The Cup Cup? Presented on field by Dr Wood?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Same party trick as last year, Julius Davis underutilized in 1st half and comes out ready to party 2nd half.

Showdown is set for next week. Sac barely escapes with a win. Barely.

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.

It was announced that Disney and YouTube TV have come to terms, so ESPN2 should be back available by tomorrow on that platform. The relevant part of the settlement is that sometime in 2026, YouTube TV will begin including ESPN+ access.

idk if the NCAA cares enough about FCS to have strong favorites. But certainly with Big Sky it is true. Pretty sure Bobby Houck sent the commissioner some Griz-branded kneepads and hairties.

Good stuff!
I wonder if there’s time to get “stingers down” cowboy hats to troll Marion.

Sac wouldn’t need lights for their imaginary Cal Expo stadium because a 7pm Pacific kickoff is bad for tv audiences in Eastern time.

in any sport there is the tendency to use your best players most and this year we really haven’t been blowing people out early so you can argue they are needed for 60 minutes. But I wonder if there is growing pressure to pad stats of guys who have a chance at the next level to either help them achieve that directly or entice them not to leave for a greener pastures when those play calls or personnel choices are not really relevant to winning the game. Thinking of the Rex tush push and last year keeping Lan in during lots of garbage time.

I think a comment made during the broadcast was that his high completion rate and high sac rate are related because he doesn’t throw the ball away. Perhaps the gift and curse of a mobile quarterback, figuring out when you can and can’t make something out of nothing.

With this counts but doesn’t count gotcha, you might say it was 3/5 of a game.