Absolutely correct that production value and fan comfort lead to better crowds. I was involved in a MLB spring training stadium. The brutal midweek noon games would be a quarter house at best, mostly retirees, some day-drinkers there for the season beer mug promo, and the skeezy autograph hunters that always reeked of old cigars (probably not an issue in college). Giveaways and entertainment couldn't keep people in their miserable south facing seats. Our two contracted Saturday night games with fireworks would be sold out packed to the walls with young families who actually watched. Though that's where we had injuries because that crowd isn't expecting foul balls and even wayward bats getting launched into the stands.

FWIW, Poly's maximum units work different than ours. Rather than a 225 max, their rule is no more than 24 units above the scripted major requirements. Most majors are around 180 units, so that puts their max closer to 204 in a lot of cases and their regular registrar policies are pretty militant about pushing people out in four years on the dot, so it would seem 5-year athletes already require some creative engineering. But I think we may be reading too much into this, the comment was probably just coachspeak cover.

things may be more complex than my understanding as I don’t claim expertise. But to your point I don’t think we have that many graduating seniors right this minute. If we did, and the coaches felt a spring educational leave was strategic, just simply not winning this week would be easier politics than making playoffs and abdicating. But I’m not predisposed to believe that level of conspiracy would ever exist.

its a free year of eligibility for NCAA purposes but several UCD colleges have a lifetime limit of 225 undergraduate units. Since a lot of athletes are already on a 5 year plan, anyone who has been taking more than 12-14 units per quarter all along may not have enough units left before hitting the ceiling to get a 16th quarter in the fall. Options might be to graduate as planned in the spring as if COVID hadn’t happened, take an educational leave for spring and graduate in fall, get a special dispensation from the dean and chancellor, or- unlikely at UCD but common in P5 programs - enroll the student as a “grad student” with no intention of earning said grad degree. Not sure how many players this affects for us or how much strategizing is going into maneuvering things past 2021.

My opinion is it doesn’t seem like the Aggie way to “quit” on this season when for so long we’ve been the anybody/anytime/anywhere competitor, but idk what strategies are being talked.

I get what you are saying. Slightly off topic, I had to lookup Olympic softball to see if it's even a thing. It was introduced in 1996, then cancelled after 2008. The conversation seemed to be that USA was too dominant, followed by Japan and Australia leading to medal count politics in Europe. It is back for 2020 (2021) in Tokyo, but I guess is on the "optional sport" list and Paris 2024 has voted not to include it. Will be back in 2028 in Los Angeles.

HA, if this was real it makes it sound like we should dispatch Tulsa in the fall.

, The way things are phrased, it does not sound like students will be getting any of the 1800 seats for football unless they buy remaining seats after Team Aggie sales, if any (someone please correct me if this is not accurate). Students will have access to baseball, tennis, and lacrosse games with the balance of sports being parents only.

As to waning student spectator interest, I don’t think Gen Z is as into sports and spirit as previous generations, but also changing demographics on campus, gotta find a way to generate interest across race/culture/gender among groups not historically as interested. For “first time sport fans,” basketball and soccer are probably most visually intuitive. Football is complex, but with a critical mass of people and Aggie Pack leaders narrating, you can have a good time cheering on command without really knowing what’s going on. Not throwing shade at baseball, but it is a harder watch if you don’t understand it, not to mention with all day games you start to feel like a hotdog on a roller.

ISU was better than expected. We were real sloppy with some bad decisions, mistakes, and failure to capitalize on gifts. We got away with one today. Sloppy will not get it done against Eastern. They dunked on Poly 62-10. Their defense may be suspect, but we will need a better offense than what we saw today. Weber almost upset the standings in the west today - barely beat Northern Arizona on a Hail Mary as the clock hit zero.

University reopens to fans April 1! ... *checks date* :roll: lol

Your daughter probably can provide more nuanced information but I do know some people involved are under HIPAA and some are under FERPA, so the information ends up protected by both sometimes. Best way to not get sued might just be to say very little. And competitively, why tell your opponent who not to worry about preparing for this week? The student could release info, and I mean, it’s not like a sprained ankle is as embarrassing as hemorrhoids, but for future employment they may not want a laundry list of old injuries as their top Google result.

did he give you directions to the nearest railroad bridge or something? It stinks that it wasn’t well run, but at least you got your shot. Around here the pharmacy staff have had pretty short tempers with everyone. I think the dumpster fire that is the distribution effort is wearing on them, but no excuse to be rude or unprofessional.

haha back when I went to the state fair every year, the Cal Expo Police didn’t mess around. Billyclubs first, questions second. They gotta be bored with no events, just chasing bums along the American River fenceline.

Indeed. I would also guess that for the foreseeable future, 5 years will be the typical lifecycle of ADs. The good ones will get picked off by higher-paying entities, so keeping an heir apparent in a good administration is decent strategy to avoid damaging leadership vacuums. For the not-so-good ones, 5 years is enough time to determine they got to go. I'm not sure I see a repeat of the 16-year Greg W tenure as likely.

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.