IIRC, one of my trips to EWU their band was a no-show and we had to play the national anthem on their behalf. They hadn’t asked ahead of time, we found out as the announcer was saying it. Good thing we know that one!

I wore the old uniforms, which were also wool. When it was hot you were hot, when it was cold, you were cold. Long underwear a good call for sure.

Longest bus trip I did was to Conway, AR straight through. Wouldn’t have traded it for anything.

In 2005, the football team’s charter plane to Fargo fell through the week of the game, so the Band handed over their commercial flight tickets, sent the manager to rent whatever cars they could get at the south davis Enterprise and put a note on the band table in the coffee house that basically said get to the band room we’re driving. Nobody told the bureacrats and risk management had a coronary when they found out.

my experience with brass instruments is its harder to play high notes and playing fast is more difficult (frozen fingers). For sure temperature affects tuning the instrument so it’s all about keeping the horn warmed up by blowing air through it and constantly adjusting tuning slides. Keeping mouthpiece inside jacket chest pocket helps too. Valve oil is basically kerosene, so I didn’t have a problem gumming up too bad. The Band used to play up at Tahoe ski resorts (skiing down the mountain while playing). If it’s a wet game, brass instruments are ok but you need to keep woodwinds dry-ish

Looking forward to a bold, blue, and bitchin’ Band-uh showing EWU what’s up. I’m loving this hot streak of Aggie Pride. And glad it had brought some first-time posters to the board. Go Ags!

Hawkins is 58. Who knows how long he plans stay at it, but UC has a pretty cushy retirement package.

Kevin Blue is 30-something. I bet somebody takes notice of him.

Yeah I don’t think Best was running reps. He was running the score up because of perceived sleights in previous playoffs. One might think he’d pull his golden boy when the fate of the game was sealed just as injury prevention since he thinks he’s going to Texas. As for Barriere, must give credit as a talented athlete. Celebrating big plays is part of football, but the young man grabs his crotch more than Michael Jackson. He’s either in need of a little more humility or a lot more Lamisil ointment. Demenour reminds me of Sac State if they were good. A wise person once told me to mind the karma you sow into the world because it will come back to you. Might not be next week, but the football gods will find you.

2005 at EWU. Fog rolled in so thick visibility was maybe 30’. Nobody had any idea what was happening on the field. The kind of wet cold that bites to the bone.

good times I’m sure. I spent the night in one of those MCIs when it dumped its alternator near BFE, Oklahoma en route to Conway, Arkansas. I don’t think Fleet lets students drive long distance anymore and I heard they were out of the coach business altogether and it was all outsourced.

It’s not a bad drive really from Davis. A lot of open road up through eastern Oregon. I definitely did it in a Ford Econoline van for the fog game.

Radio on AM 1380, streaming on TuneIn if you need your fix of Scott Marsh/DK in addition to ESPN

I was in town for a game a year or two ago and I was on my feet cheering the whole game. Nothing obtuse but apparently too animated for section 120 because I had Aggie hosts follow me like white on rice, even to the restroom. Can’t imagine a cow bell would have lasted long if yelling “watch the game, ref!” got me on the watch list.

There was something special about the north end zone for sure. Interesting write up on AP history on DavisWiki. Anybody remember Aggie Fanatics, the fan club for general public? I still have some of the shirts. You could earn Aggie Bucks for checking in at games and trade them in for free swag.

I always want to beat Sac State, but I do hope they can become successful as well. I think it’s good for all of us if all three CA Big Sky teams can manage to be relevant at the same time. Improves local interest and maybe squeezes the flow of talented recruits heading north. I was privately concerned how much longer their program could stay viable with so many player and fan defections, but hopefully they can get the cart on the rails.

If Nicholls were to win, where would the next round be played? At Nicholls or at the winner of UCD/UNI?

The emcee who opened Aggie Stadium was pretty good. I think his name was Scott, IIRC. Kind of wonder if the guy still rocks plaid shorts everywhere. The Pack was full and loud, but we were still coming off our years of being good. Going back in time at Toomey, there used to be Aggie Pack "characters" in the 90s. I remember Captain Aggie, the SWAT Team, and others. It was amazing how that place would go crazy for Steve's Place Pizza Madness or tube sock madness. Burrito Madness was another story. As it turns out, firing foil-wrapped burritos from a t-shirt cannon wasn't such a great idea.

What I'm reading is that students need to come to Aggie Stadium box office this week prior to the game to pickup their free ticket. How convenient.

Not exactly a weather event, but there was the 2009 game vs. Montana where somebody forgot to reset the light timer and the stadium lights turned off during play. Was like a half hour delay to restart the lights. I'm assuming this is on somebody's checklist now.

Did some quick estimates and calculations looking at the seats available on the ticketing site.
Gen Admission: ~3000 (end zones, 101, 102) $10
Aggie Pack and Band-uh: ~2000 (104-107) $0
Reserved: ~5800 (103, 108, 109, 118-127) $20 regular sections / $30 golf clap & khakis sections

Can't tell from the site what percentage of GA has been sold other than it indicates "many available." Of course never know how many students will show. But as to the reserved seats, there are about 2300 of the 5800 still available. Section 108 & 109 are showing sold out, so I'm guessing these are the blocks given to UNI. Hopefully a big push this week, but doesn't smell like a sellout yet. Good news is that I would think tickets sold are likely to be redeemed since buyers had to specifically purchase them as opposed to it being just another ticket in the season packet.

fwiw - Big West specifically prohibits bands from traveling to away basketball games, unless it is televised and the host school agrees and there is not a home game of any sport the same day, in which case you can bring 30 or fewer members. The rule was specifically targeted at the Aggie Band and came in the Warzecka years. I never got the sense these kind of battles were his priority.

I’m pretty sure the steam engine was gone by early 90s or earlier. Remember that we basically became D2 independent around 1993, so maybe there was some loss of leverage there since nobody was obligated to play us. But in the current state of the Big Sky, if other schools can have a howitzer canon we should be able to blast a whistle. Cowbells persisted into the 2000s if I recall. They started hassling people about them around the time they contracted security out to the Raley Field jerks, IIRC.