The steam engine was on display (not running) a couple years ago at a game. I would bet there are some steam experts at the CA State Railroad Museum shop who could opine on how close it is to operational state and the safety factor. If it is not reasonably operational within a week, you could probably run the whistle on compressed air at least. Interestingly, Jay Leno has a steam tractor he has modified to run on propane. He said it makes it much faster and more practical to start up and shut down than a coal or wood fire and less smoky. Maybe a good future project?

Fire and building officials have a good amount of interpretive leeway. Without seeing the life safety drawings, my numbers were speculative. In Toomey days, they would have been more concerned with fire. Nothing to burn at AS, but unfortunately nowadays they also have to think about how quickly could they clear for other kinds of incidents. But I’d love to see a SRO crowd!

I believe the home record (not counting causeways at Hughes stadium) was 12,800 at Toomey field in 1977 against Reno. I’m told it was a standing room only crowd packed to the gates. I think the record at Aggie Stadium is around 10,800.

Apparently drinking and driving is a past time there. Last time I drove, the highway into Cheney had one of those electronic “people killed on this road this year” signs. Drive careful.

I will say this, as a distant Aggie who watches everything via these streams... BSTV is a more reliable source than Pluto. That said, the overall reliability of both varies by host location. Games at Aggie Stadium drop out more often than when we are away - they need a tech geek to make sure there is not an upload bandwidth issue. I always stream the KHTK audio via the TuneIN app on my phone, but keep it muted. It is very reliable and then I can immediately unmute if the video feed drops at a pivotal moment (or if I get sick of listening to homer commentators). TuneIN runs about a play behind the video so I don't miss anything.

Which "they" do you mean? Davis, Montana, or the Zebras?

head ref needs to be fired immediately. "do your job" is exactly what Hawk said too and got a penalty on the bench.

Meanwhile Davis police are riding around on toy scooters giving out tickets for insufficient bicycle reflectors. Priorities.

At the time this was announced we reached out to the Athletics department and requested to purchase a piece of bleacher as a souvenir. Response started as "huh, why?" then to "hmm maybe we can work something out, we'll be in touch", to "lead, asbestos, red tape". Being in construction industry myself, lead paint on the superstructure was plausible. Very little chance of the aluminum bleachers being hot. More likely scenario was they already had a demo contract in place and the bid was based on the contractor ripping it down (not gently) and getting the metal recycling proceeds. If I had been in town, I would have tried to work something out with the demo guy. A cold 24-pack gets you just about anything in construction.

I recall several similar sprees when I lived there years ago. I don't know that they target Asians so much as anybody who just might not be paying attention to their surroundings at that moment. Beginning of the school year is easy pickings I'm sure. When caught it usually turned out to be someone from West Sac or East Bay, and always a dark hoodie. Good reminder that bad things can happen anywhere day or night.

No doubt. Leading up to a game every restaurant server and grocery store clerk is wearing Montana gear and pretty much everything came to a standstill on game day. Lot of good smelling food going on at the pregame, so yeah, it probably is the envy of college football in terms of the city supporting the team. Kind of reminds me of a smaller version of Gainesville, FL. Keep in mind that Missoula is about the size of Davis, but happens to be the second largest city in the state with many miles of nothing between it any literally anything.

I've been using the Pluto app on Fire Stick. I use the TuneIn app on my phone to get the 1140 audio feed and mute the TV if the announcers suck like they did this week.

In my era the Band-uh mustered about 50 to every away football game (every away basketball game too at one point), typically drove ourselves and slept on whatever gym floor we could for free. Last few years travel has been limited to CP, Suck State, and Anaheim, but they have a new band director so maybe some new hope.

My experience going to EWU and Montana some years ago was that EWU was more pleasant to visit, kind of same vibe as our home games. Montana has a more intense gameday experience for sure, though I was unimpressed with the quality of their fans. I remember getting spit at - and it wasn't drunk frat boys. It was sober middle age guys in dad jeans and New Balances doing it with their 9 year old sons. At that time, very few Aggie fans went to either except a few players parents.

Interesting. Looks like they followed the money trail (nothing wrong with that). For equestrian they are able to categorize some of the expenses as academic through the vet school and beach volleyball had a donor step up for the facility. Comparatively speaking a beach volleyball center is cheap, but having just been involved in building one, I have to say there is more to it than just digging a sand pit. It must be the RIGHT sand, and yes, I've had coaches insist on measuring the sand grains with micrometers.

My opinion is that rowing seems to make sense. Overhead is likely less expensive for one larger team than two smaller ones. Rowing has limited facility cost (local rivers), an established club base, and several opponents in California, including Suck State.

Rugby has an established club base, but is incredibly hard on turf (either natural or artificial) and would probably require a new dedicated facility ~$3M. Few opponents one west coast. Beach volleyball would require a new facility if we wanted to host anything ~$1M. Numerous opponents in California and certainly wouldn't hurt the, uh, local scenery. But not sure if we could compete on recruiting against schools that are actually near a real beach. Fencing would have a low facility cost if it could negotiate time in Hickey or Pavilion, and might be a novelty here, but few opponents on west coast. Equestrian could probably tap some "old money" from wealthy ranchers but also seems like animal care could add significant cost, with some risk of a future SeaWorld-type problem should there be any incidents that draw the attention of animal rights activists. Few opponents on the west coast and it would seem that transporting horses all over the country could have some complexities.

I work with a major K-State fan. This will be fun Monday.

close the browser and then start over at kstatesports.com . A second stream showed up. One for audio + video in addition to the one you have been watching for audio only.

I was listening to the KDVS stream but they lost their internet connection and back in the studio all they have said is "this just isn't working out tonight..." So I guess I will be listening to the K-State feed.

I recall when I was a student, I had a couple friends who were leaders in a student organization but were a thorn in the side of a non-academic university staff member. Senior year, they were suspended for alleged "alcohol violations" that said staff member overheard from a third party. Student Judicial Affairs suspended the students from participating in the organization while they launched an investigation. They pressured the students to "confess" and take a plea deal that basically said they could return but any hint of further misconduct and they would be kicked out of the university, forfeiting rights to a hearing. They refused to take the plea deal, so SJA allowed the "investigation" to go on for months. There was no evidence and no witnesses came forward. Eventually the students were declared innocent -- with a week left of school after being frozen out of an entire spring quarter. The appearance was that SJA purposely prolonged the process so the staff member wouldn't have to deal with students he didn't like and the students would be "punished" without having to be found guilty.

Also keep in mind that the burden of proof is simply "is it more likely than not" that the student committed the infraction, not "beyond reasonable doubt." And when all else fails, they pull the "violation of principles of community" accusation out, which is about as amorphous as it comes. Point being, you can expect about as fair a hearing at SJA as a political dissident in Soviet Russia.

All that said, I am not suggesting that Chima is even under investigation by Student Judicial Affairs. This could be strictly internal to the team or Athletics. And depending on the issue, FERPA may prevent anyone from saying anything.

UCOP occupies the whole building at 1111 Franklin St. Offices are floors 5-12 and parking on 1-4.
They have several additional spaces rented--
300 Lakeside Dr, floors 3, 5, 6, 7, 12
1111 Broadway, floors 14 and 21
415 20th St, floors 3 and 4 (lower floors are UC Berkeley labs)

As far as Div of Ag and Natural Resources, most of the people who do anything productive are already at Davis or local county offices. Most of the people in Oakland get in the way of anything productive so I'm curious how excited the local crowd is on this idea.

Despite being "non scholarship" I guarantee you the whole USD football team is not paying full MSRP on tuition. They can certainly offer non-athletic scholarships and aid to individuals who happen to be athletes. Even if USD didn't join Big Sky, I think they had 3 OOC games this year. It would be cool if those regularly became UCD, CP, and SAC. Perhaps there could be a California Cup rivalry between the four. Part of what made the NCAC days fun (aside from winning) was that schools were close enough that you knew the opponent and visiting fans would travel. Doubt you find many people in the general population in California who know (or care) what state Weber State is in.