Celebrating John Madden and the new football building in SLO. Focusing on ISU as a televised road team is missing the point.

Consider last year’s home games included NDSU, Seattle and Louisiana.

Sure doesn’t look like it. Things are not well.

Here’s a hint. ESPN isn’t really looking at the visiting teams aside from preferring competitive games. They do not have a contractual relationship with the new PAC 12, MWC, or the Big Ten, so there are open windows when the ACC and Big 12 can’t fill two slots on or after 7 pacific. Which is often. They are evaluating these Big Sky programs and the conference relative to viewership of the MWC and P12 in prior years.

That week is loaded in the SEC. ESPN does not want two Big Sky games on their networks at the same time and MSU has that night. So it’s unlikely.

You understand there are more football transfers coming in than going out, no?

This is correct. Irvine’s hoops budget is significantly larger. Same with SD.

Berkeley, UCLA and Davis have absolutely spent tens of millions on ICA. What Sac is doing here is different. They are redirecting university funds to a third party that is contracting with football and basketball players.

CSUS is funding NIL with the president’s discretionary budget. It’s not clear that the CSU System actually knows this is happening.

Doesn’t matter much who is on staff with the level of resources available. Agree that Les is not the guy to lead any sort of initiative to put the program on strong financial footing but moving on right now would cost lots of dough. Would be better to put that money into the roster in order to help attract some decent candidates next cycle. Of course this will never happen.

Yes. And no money for a roster. This is a total mess.

It’s on all of their social feeds not just fb.

Inside linebacker doesn’t need more size than those two guys but whoever takes the two spots needs to improve in the run game. Look back historically, many of the best inside linebackers the program has had (Sindell, Spraker, Valaau, Elbanna, Meyer) weren’t huge dudes, but they all had great instincts and tackled well.

Santa Barbara and UCSD are leaving because Davis is out. WCC + Big Sky Football would have been a good outlet for Davis also. Poly may land there. The Big West being forced to admit Bakersfield and unable to control themselves with UH really killed the conference.

Those teams didn’t have the benefit of OTAs. Practice basically starts two weeks after the season concludes these days.

No more late portals.

Some programs kicked the tires because of his brother and the potential pipeline but nobody really offered. I think this is a mutual parting of the ways.

Line play overall last year was not great but the snaps were atrocious. Seemed like every third down was a ground ball or an off target missile. Sounds like a post spring portal grad transfer is needed.

Carrillo played a lot 3 years ago. Need more than those two at edge and that may be where Garrettson could slot in but he’s another one that’s battled injuries. On the other side they need more consistency out of Sam and he’s got to be able to play the run game. Madruga has played quite a bit of football also. Ray and Sackinsky played late in the year with everyone hurt and did not appear to be rotational guys but that can change with a full offseason program.

Those two are Will types. Maybe Sievers can grow into it but I wouldn’t put Conners at the Mike.