I'm glad to hear this. Would appear to keep us on the same trajectory. He must have impressed May and gotten the right endorsements because I would have normally expected an outside diversity hire. Haven't tried, but hopefully continues Blue's habit of answering emails personally and promptly, even to us little people.

This year is weird indeed, but even in a normal year I think the FCS voters are predisposed to wanting MVFC vs CAA in the championship and decent teams in Big Sky and Southland get overlooked as much as possible. To the extent they can’t be ignored, the voters then move to name recognition as a metric. But I’d rather not be overhyped leading up to important games. Perceived underdog is a good position to be in, except for the polls after the last week - then if playoffs should be willed by the football gods, gimme those home games.

probably with a ticket stub :roll:. But free might be paying too much at Pizza Guys.

yeah, the camera work was subpar but I’m glad the feed wasn’t behind a paywall. It’s easily six figures to get a real production setup, probably not in the CW31 budget when Pizza Guys is your main advertiser. Although I get a chuckle remembering when Aggie Stadium opened, the AD made a point of noting that it was “equipped for multiple national tv feeds”, though oddly turned out to not be equipped with a single working ref mic.

Wow, what a game. Too bad it wasn't able to be a full house. Would have been rocking.

To say CP got a pounding is putting it lightly. More like a Tabasco enema. Our win streak is now 4 years, which means most of their guys have never beat Davis, and I guess don't get their team pictures up in the locker room. Aside from the one extracurricular facemask, looked to be a pretty clean game. Credit to most of the CP players for keeping their composure because things usually get chippy with these kinds of blowouts. I imagine this is them hitting bottom and Baldwin will improve things once he starts to cycle in some new recruits. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised 3 years from now if the 3 CA teams were the ones to beat in Big Sky.

Great showing on both sides of the ball for the Ags and glad to see we reduced number of game-changing penalties. Still need to know when to throw the ball away. Unforced errors will cost us against a better team. All the PATs were good this week, but at least in the camera angle looked kind of wild. Hopefully in real life they drilled straight through. Our depth of quality young players was on display for sure. I hope we don't have any bad PAC12 teams try to come shopping.

I was thinking the same thing that the water tower looked pretty raggedy. I believe it was last repainted around 2007. It previously had the legacy block CA logo

I think in the past buses were the norm between Davis and SLO but I'm not sure what they do these days. At a ~4 hour drive I would think you are approaching the break even on time when you factor ground transport and logistics on both ends. Santa Maria is the nearest airport to SLO that can land 737s and A319s. Allegiant does have operations there and I think that's the airline teams typically charter. The problem for SUU may have been on the other end in that the nearest airport of note is Las Vegas, and that's already 2.5 hour drive from Cedar City. (Of course for Band-uh types, 10 hours on a bus with a hotel stay sounds like luxury. I remember driving straight through to hellholes like Conway, Arkansas, sleeping on random floors.)

yes, myturn.ca.gov is the state site, but far from the one stop shop it was advertised as. Allows you to make appointments for some county or health system locations and tells you which Safeway stores “might” have doses - redirects to Safeway’s site to actually check stock. But there are additional county locations and health systems that are running their own signups that don’t reflect on the state site that you kind of just have to know about. Walgreens, CVS, and VA are federally managed and have their own separate signups.

Right now, doses are being redirected away from other areas to LA and San Joaquin Valley. Indeed these are hard hit areas, lots of poverty, and happen to be Latino-heavy areas. Coincidentally, these probably happen to also be the zip codes where the recall will be won or lost, so read into that what you will.

Glad others have been able to find appointments close to home! I’ve been helping my mom long distance because she’s not super computer savvy and all I can say is the MyTurn site is not very helpful. Her county and local pharmacies say they are getting stiffed on doses being reallocated to other areas and were only scheduling second doses. Anecdotally, I have young, healthy friends getting lucky at places like the Tulare fairgrounds mass site because the eligible folks just aren’t showing up, which is how I started following the trail of readily available appointments up Hwy 99.

I have a family member who is eligible to receive the vaccine but kept getting appointments cancelled and encountering lengthy waitlists due to short supply in the Bay Area. Was able to get her a next day appointment in Fresno area. A bit of a drive but seems to be much better availability at pharmacies along the 99 corridor from Madera to Bakersfield if anybody is currently trying to get one.

I guess we find out in a couple weeks. The Aggies have always struggled with the Eagles for reasons I don’t know. I don’t think Barriere is quite as magical as he thinks he is, but he manages to pull out wins. With these kind of polls I think EWU and Montana (I know not playing this season) historically get overrated while the three California teams get under appreciated. Which is fine because I think we perform better as perceived underdogs.

The Idaho press is saying the current COVID outbreak on the UI campus is linked to a couple of frat houses, and that there have been Greek-linked outbreaks after every holiday weekend or major snowstorm. Seems plausible there is overlap between the team and said houses. Hopefully nobody from Davis gets sick, and I hope anyone involved does not experience serious symptoms.

In my area they are noting huge upticks in senior citizens who have been vaccinated kind of leaving caution to the wind and resuming normal activity without precautions. They’re calling it things like “revenge tourism”. A dangerous game for sure, and to those of us patiently waiting our turn feels really unfair.

perhaps two other factors mixed in were somewhere during the transition were 4 years of championship ineligibility, which probably dampened recruiting and became a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. And then the economy turned south at just the wrong moment that we probably weren’t funding anything fully when we needed to spool up, including a half-done Aggie stadium. Upward transitions are hard in the west. Sac and Poly have taken 20+ years to have much to show.

haha, all good. It’s fun that you guys do a fan podcast. Good luck at Northern Arizona. I’m thinking you guys handle them, but that elevation factor hurts if you don’t get some of your depth back.

RE: the tubscast... the guy in the upper right corner reminds me of a drunk loudly talking to himself in a sports bar bathroom stall about dropped long balls. Pull it together, man. Not sure if I understand the allusion of “trick” plays being unfair, especially when Hawkins is known for them. TBH, we burned ourselves on complicated trick plays as well. It stinks to have starters out, though it sounded like several were on special teams, which played fine. Idk if the 9 out had COVID or were just potentially exposed, but it’s a lot and maybe should have been being more careful. Hopefully didn’t cough on our guys. But, it’s Monday, so on to the next game!

I watched the Pluto feed with the Idaho broadcasters but tuned into KHTK stream for pregame and post game radio show. They mentioned they were broadcasting from “Scott Marsh Studios”, so I’m guessing they were doing the call remotely from Scott’s house? At any rate, DK didn’t sound well and was slow getting his words out. Hope he’s doing ok. Wonder if Scott and DK will be on the call for the home games or if the TV station will have different talent.

Idaho wore all white at home last week. Not sure if that was a one-off or if that’s their normal home look. Anybody know what uniform combo this week? Always partial to the classic colors, though I think I heard we have names on jerseys.

I don’t want to wade into political waters but I absolutely agree with you. The narrative that those with graduate or professional degrees will land huge salaries right out of school and payoff the debt no problem is false for many. I wish there was an easy answer as to why education is so overpriced. It’s easy to point at chancellor pay and dubious make-work departments, but I fear it’s more complex than that.

call the exchange of money what you will, you are correct that the cost of college has gone up dramatically since the 70s at a higher rate than incomes or inflation. Today, about 60% of UCD students receive “free” base tuition from the regents based on income... a value of about $12k per year, and a figure the brass like to tout. But that doesn’t make things affordable, unless maybe you live with your parents. Books, food, fees, rent... dorm contracts alone are pushing $20k per year now. So not the kind of thing the 15 hours a week at Unitrans will pay for. The rub is that if you go out and write your essays and earn scholarships, the regents reduce your tuition waiver by that amount. So in essence you can’t start to cover your non tuition expenses with scholarships until you’ve earned at least $12k. Donors should be aware that most students benefit from a $500 Safeway gift card under the table more than a $1000 scholarship through Dutton Hall.

Good points, all. I also think you need at least 10 years to get the retiree health package, unless this is somehow negotiable for executives. Anyhow, didn’t mean to start politics about pensions. Probably lots of reasons why Humboldt doesn’t get long-tenured visionary executives these days. At any rate, it’s kind of a shame that D2 west of Texas is basically gone. CA high schools probably generate enough players to stock a D2 conference and at least one more FCS team, but I guess there’s not a good financial model to make it work.

agreed. Not sure if it’s our eyes or the LED headlights that so many new cars have. Nothing like getting blinded in all three mirrors at once.