Several reports on twitter that UNLV and Air Force have decided to stay in the MW which leaves both the Pac and MW at 7 teams

I think a lot depends on what Sac State does. I have a hard time believing that Sac makes the jump to FBS and Davis doesn't or vice versa. There's a lot of chatter on the Sac forum about a jump to the Mountain West. I think MW will still be trying to pull from FBS ranks to get to 8 teams, but if UNLV and Air Force decide to leave I think they will have to pull from FCS ranks.

Oh I'm all for getting the place rocking. I don't want to sound like a broken record, but I (and I think others too) just don't get what star wars music has to do with anything. Like, it's not particularly a hype up song or anything like that. I think a hype up song on 3rd downs isn't a bad idea, just I think some other songs probably should have been workshopped.

Hopefully we can get somewhat healthy this week! We're gonna need all hands on deck. I hope that the students show out, but season after season it's been nothing but disappointing turnouts for any game that's not the first game of students back, Sac State, or Cal Poly. This is probably the most important game of the season and I'm willing to bet that turnout will be lackluster. Fingers crossed I'm wrong.

I already listened to the episode this morning and 2 great interviews guys!

I can appreciate Plough wanting the stadium to be less friendly, but I'm not sure star wars and Zach Bryan are the way to go. Now, I haven't been to a live game in awhile as I live across the country, but family who has been going to Aggie games for decades said that they found the star wars thing on 3rd downs "weird and annoying".

Reports are out that Utah State is going to the new Pac "12" conference while Air Force and UNLV are committing to stay in the Mountain West.

Sam is a great guest! Very knowledgeable about FCS football and it's topical too as he has Idaho ranked #1 in the country in his weekly poll.

The Chancellor May retweet does give more credence to Rocko's posts, but I'm still firmly in the "I'll believe it when I see it" camp. I'll be more excited when we get something concrete and not just ambiguous posts about stadium expansion, conference changes, etc.

I want to believe that, but I'm just not sure personally. I actually lived in Virginia in the years prior to JMU making the jump up to FBS (2018, 2019) and man... they were regularly pulling in 20K to their games against their normal FCS opponents and 25k for ranked opponent games. It's just a different culture to have a fanatical football following and I don't know if that can be cultivated in Davis by making the jump up.

I'm not sure if there is a great future in west coast FCS football. I would love for Davis to make it to the big time, but I just don't know how the numbers get there in terms of support and backing funds. With the current NIL landscape we're going to need more big time donors showing up. The Edwards family can't do it alone.

Oh I agree. I don't particularly think major stadium upgrades or an announcement to the mountain west are imminent, but I've certainly been wrong before! Davis has a long history of lackluster fan support.

Another nebulous post from Rocko

Plough says he's not happy with the red zone offense. Neither are we, Tim. Tough to call this offense "Shredville" in it's current iteration. Still pretty banged up on defense and is hoping to get some guys back for Idaho.

There were definitely some good things to come out of this game. The defense forcing 4 turnovers was nice, though they benefitted from some really awful QB play from Graff. Defense held the Trailblazers to something like 50 total yards at halftime. Another 150+ yard (from scrimmage) performance from LL. Miles had a clean sheet in terms of throwing interceptions. We came away with the win and are 3-1 headed into conference play.

I'm not going to be too negative given the win, but as we've all discussed already the red zone offense is concerning, like this kind of performance will 100% lose us conference games kind of concerning. You can't get into the red zone pushing double digit times with the defense doing everything they can to put you in a good position and settle for field goals. Idaho is going to murder us if Plough can't find a way to scheme us into the end zone. Didn't love the defense giving up some chunk plays in the 2nd half, but I really can't complain too much about their performance with back ups in the game late. Giving up 14 points really doesn't look bad if the offense could have dropped 50 like they probably should have.

Anyway, GO AGS! Bring on the Vandals!

Finally a TD!

Wow another turnover

Aaaand another field goal to end the half. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad we're winning but Utah Tech is really bad... like REALLY bad. If we could finish a drive this would already be a blow out.

Graff throws another pick

Yay... More field goals...

I'm not sure, but I don't think the issues are in execution. This issue falls directly on Plough. We can't be this consistently bad when getting in scoring position and it not be on coaching.

I think Plough needs to go back to the drawing board on his red zone offense philosophy as a whole. It stinks... Now 5/15 on scoring TDs when getting into the red zone.